All Quotes

What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
‐‐ Tony Abbott

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small 'l' but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. That's more or less the empty set.
‐‐ Tyler Cowen

What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.
‐‐ James Wan

What I would love is a crossover between 'Royal Pains' and 'Burn Notice,' that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.
‐‐ Paulo Costanzo

What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.
‐‐ Russell Smith

What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.
‐‐ Graham Nelson

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.
‐‐ Andrew Forrest

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.
‐‐ Andrew Bogut

What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.
‐‐ America Ferrera

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.
‐‐ Angus T. Jones

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.
‐‐ Lawrence Bender

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
‐‐ Abbe Pierre

What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
‐‐ Iain Sinclair

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.
‐‐ Robin McKinley

What I write is not for little girls.
‐‐ Theophile Gautier

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
‐‐ Josh Radnor

What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

What, if as said, man is a bubble.
‐‐ Marcus Terentius Varro

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
‐‐ Ken MacLeod

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.
‐‐ Mustafa Akyol

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
‐‐ Adam Ferrara

What if Hiram Bingham had the technology to find hundreds of other archaeological sites at the same time and create entire 3-D maps of the ancient landscape accurate to within a few inches?
‐‐ Sarah Parcak

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.
‐‐ Ben Macintyre

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
‐‐ Chris Evans

What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of cells from the inside of anyone's cheek, the science of genetics can even prove it.
‐‐ Spencer Wells

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?
‐‐ Josiah Strong

What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

What if someone created some sort of eyebrow pencil that was revolutionary and that was made specifically to help eyebrows look more realistic?
‐‐ Michelle Phan

'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?
‐‐ Muqtada al Sadr

What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
‐‐ Slavoj Zizek

What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?
‐‐ Joel C. Rosenberg

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
‐‐ Andrei Platonov

What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?
‐‐ Trent Franks