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Would Be Quotes (page 177)

Confucius quote: "If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct..."
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness. Confucius
Steven Pinker quote: "If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be..."
If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks. Steven Pinker
He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home. Mark Twain
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden. Beatrix Potter
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss. Ann Patchett
Honore de Balzac quote: "If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be..."
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. Honore de Balzac
here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him... C. S. Lewis
Trey Parker quote: "Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who..."
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical Trey Parker
John Calvin quote: "It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance..."
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3) John Calvin
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher. Demetri Martin
and soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra. Neil Gaiman
If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over."Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree."No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine. Deepak Chopra
Jules Renard quote: "If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space..."
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room. Jules Renard
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. Jean Cocteau
Khalil Gibran quote: "An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind."
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. Khalil Gibran

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