All Quotes

Would I advise early-stage companies against taking debt? One hundred percent yes.
‐‐ Keith Teare

Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.
‐‐ Joe Lhota

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.
‐‐ Stephen Baker

Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
‐‐ John B. S. Haldane

Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Would I like to do a feature? Absolutely.
‐‐ Michelle MacLaren

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.
‐‐ Anthony Foxx

Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.
‐‐ Robin Wright

'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.
‐‐ Geraldine McCaughrean

Would I put my daughter in a private all-girl school? No. Would I put her in a private co-ed school? Yes. Would I put her in the school I went to? No way.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Vaugier

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.
‐‐ Jai Courtney

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
‐‐ John James Audubon

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
‐‐ Alexander Herzen

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
‐‐ Andrew Greeley

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
‐‐ Sappho

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
‐‐ Max Muller

Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don't think so.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I want this outcome, I nudge that one up a little and down a little bit, and there you go.
‐‐ Aubrey McClendon

Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don't think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard.
‐‐ Sheldon Lee Glashow

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
‐‐ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
‐‐ Natalie Clifford Barney

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
‐‐ John Sentamu

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.
‐‐ David Gill

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
‐‐ John Heywood

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
‐‐ Kanye West

Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
‐‐ Gladys Knight

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
‐‐ Britney Spears

Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.
‐‐ Ellen Barkin

Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov