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Would Be Quotes (page 167)

Emilie Autumn quote: "If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be..."
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud! Emilie Autumn
Robertson Davies quote: "A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed -..."
A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say. Robertson Davies
Meg Cabot quote: "If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over"-..."
If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over"- Suze Simon in the Mediator Meg Cabot
Thomas Jefferson quote: "[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."
[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. Thomas Jefferson
Andre Gide quote: "The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What..."
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Andre Gide
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse. Thomas More
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. Dean Koontz
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. Anton Chekhov
See the mountains kiss high Heaven. And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven. If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea -What is all this sweet work worth. If thou kiss not me? Percy Bysshe Shelley
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. Horace Mann
T. S. Eliot quote: "Except for the point, the still point, There would be no..."
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance T. S. Eliot
It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air. P. D. James
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory. Erich Maria Remarque
Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for "sitting where a god has stood". What flabbergasted him was that his traveling companions would be in such a sanctified environment and winter what they saw according to other writers or their denominational background instead their own experience with the holy. Mark Twain
No sooner had one season slipped out the door than the next came in by another door. A person might scramble to the closing door and call out, Hey, wait a minute, there’s one last thing I forgot to tell you. But nobody would be there any more. The door shuts tight. Already another season is in the room, sitting in a chair, striking a match to light a cigarette. Anything you forgot to mention, the stranger says, you might as well go ahead and tell me, and if it works out, I’ll get the message... Haruki Murakami

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