All Quotes

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.
‐‐ Gwynne Shotwell

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.
‐‐ Tony Hale

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.
‐‐ Robert Caro

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
‐‐ Barney Frank

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
‐‐ Pete Hamill

What would happen if our clothes were Internet-enabled? Can you imagine if you lost a sock? You could send out a search, and sock No. 3117 would respond that it's under the couch in the living room.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?
‐‐ Ellen Key

What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would be rounded up, taken to the airport and expelled.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.
‐‐ Selma Lagerlof

What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
‐‐ John Hodgman

What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!
‐‐ Ann Leckie

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
‐‐ Frederick Tennyson

'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
‐‐ Sydney Smith

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?
‐‐ Pete Wentz

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
‐‐ Jeffrey Donovan

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
‐‐ Gerard Manley Hopkins

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
‐‐ Andre Gide

What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.
‐‐ Obiageli Ezekwesili

What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.
‐‐ Jens Voigt

What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.
‐‐ Craig Brown

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
‐‐ Edoardo Ponti

What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there's nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It's the ultimate stakes.
‐‐ Alane Ferguson

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
‐‐ David Simon

What writing does is to reveal.
‐‐ Rita Dove

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
‐‐ Henry Austin Dobson

What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are vampire states. Vampires because they suck the economic vitality out of their people. Government is the problem in Africa.
‐‐ George Ayittey

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
‐‐ John Wooden

What you are comes to you.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are is a question only you can answer.
‐‐ Lois McMaster Bujold

What you are will show in what you do.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
‐‐ John Lithgow

What you become is what counts.
‐‐ Liz Smith

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.
‐‐ Ken Ham

What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.
‐‐ Joseph Prince

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.
‐‐ Mitt Romney