Best moving & would-be Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.”

Ifs Knows Should Character Body Would Be Moving Careers Shapes Concerned Athlete Looking Good Getting In Shape

Author:Aidan Quinn

“Never make a move until you find yourself making it, because it might be too soon. It's always better to wait. Whenever you're not sure, wait, and in time you'll find yourself doing it. To act before then would be a mistake.”

Wisdom Might Would Be Moving Waiting Mistake Buddhism Not Sure Finding Yourself Make A Move

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.”

People Thinking World Ideas Enough Would Be Moving Fighting Evil Vision Good And Evil Better Place Good Against Evil Good Evil

Author:Pope Francis

“We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.”

People I Can Different Facts Would Be Moving Games Prove Occasions Impress Different Peoples

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.”

Thinking Firsts Would Be Jobs Moving Actors Found Father Left Half Stupid Amount Waiter

Author:Alfred Molina

“I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.”

Ifs Thinking Want Would Be Jobs Moving New York Fine If I Could

Author:Jason Mewes

“If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Problem Would Be Moving Actors Right Now Shoes Crap Chores

Author:Tarsem Singh

“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Action Moving Our Lives Growing Progress Movement Keys Evolution Opposites Stuck Developing Accomplishment Staying Mature Expanding Clarifying

Book:Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way

Source: Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way

“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.”

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen, transmit nerve impulses, or move muscles, including the heart.”

Heart Body Would Be Moving Essentials Including Impulse Muscles Nerves Oxygen Transport Transmit Digestion Nutrients Respiration Sodium

Book:Salt: A World History

Source: Salt: A World History

“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.”

“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.”

People Thinking Hard Body Would Be Able Moving Challenges Space Walks Silence Okay Be Good Stillness Interacting

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.”

Ifs Men Feels Has Beens Would Be Pain Moving Felt Causes Fronts He Man Blow Legs Destroyed Noses Preservation Limbs Joints Foreheads

Book:Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

“If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible.”

Ifs Knows Feels Looks Made Would Be Film Moving Next Mistake Terrible Compromise Awful Terrible Things Blunders Better Now

Author:Woody Allen

“Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this also must needs be put in motion by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover; seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are put in motion by the first mover; as the staff moves only because it is put in motion by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.”

Ifs Needs Firsts God Hands Would Be Moving Seeing Goes On Infinity Staff

Book:A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica

Source: A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica

“Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.”

Done Whole Hands Would Be Moving Secret Forever Rounds Clock Ants Shuffling

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.”

Mind Ends Seems Would Be Lasts Moving Suffering Rooms Week Habit Devices Temporary Quarters Powerless

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”

“Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain to expect to see living beings formed of the blood of menstruous women and the semen virile, who will not die, will never feel pain, or will move perpetually, or shine like the sun. This dictum of Galen is part of the following more general proposition: Whatever is formed of matter receives the most perfect form possible in that species of matter; in each individual case the defects are in accordance with that individual matter.”

Feels Book Matter Use Would Be Pain Moving Form Dies Individual Perfect Cases Sun Blood Thirds Shining Species Following Vain Sections Propositions Defects Limbs Galen

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.”

Want Kind Would Be Today Wanted Moving Guy Next Pay Acting Comedy Doors Minutes Dresses Boring Code Bored Performers Tickets Dress Code

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!”

Ifs Would Be Moving Left Force Black Walks Cases Sea Areas Russia Sensitive Troops Nato Crimea Coastline

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”

Needs Mind Moments Would Be Running Moving Beauty Delight Stability Delightful Suspended Vertigo

Author:Anne Carson

“If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.”

Ifs Moments Would Be Moving Expression Victory Republican Surrender Uncertainty One Word Generic

Author:L. Neil Smith

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.”

Ifs Thinking World Mind Would Be Moving Realizing Lines Straight Lines

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.”

Ifs Would Be Moving Atheism Slavery Positive Atheism Unnecessary Hammers

Author:Aristotle

“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?”

“In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.”

Ifs Would Be Moving Fun Process Creative Too Much Good Things London Flying Moving Forward Planes Creative Process Jumping Too Much Work

Author:Tom Hanks

“I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.”

People Humans Made Would Be Moving Simple Pure Criticism Scripture Kingdoms Doctrine Creeds Infidelity Quotations Assault Kingdom Of God Denominations

Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage

“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone”

Ifs Heart Would Be Moving Language Growth Sin Forget Grace Progress Impossible Conscious Notes Saint Lovely Gracious Sanctity Unawareness

Author:Bill Vaughan

“When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!”

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Feelings Might Would Be Moving Leadership Information Ten Years Ago Opposites Intuition Being True Guts Logical Ironic Leading Me One Direction Gut Feelings

Author:Donna Shalala

“There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.”

“Those three years on Loving were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldnt come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.”

Years Wells Helping Would Be Moving Three Next Missing Series Granted Three Years Never Take Anything For Granted

Author:Michael Weatherly

“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Film Moving Turns Sound Strange Painting Wind Unique Mouths Mood Layers Portraits Captured Mona Lisa Celluloid

Author:David Lynch

“We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.”

“We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.”

Ifs Would Be Today Moving Energy Business Alive Clean Climate Investing Convinced Fuel Businessman Fossils Fossil Fuel Live For Today Renewable Energy Moving Out Astute

Author:Stephen Heintz

“I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Moments Feelings Might Would Be Moving Lost Left Magic Particular Return Eternity Factors Spots Made It Integrated Magic Moments

Book:Cemetery World

Source: Cemetery World

“Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.”

Different Would Be Earth Moving Depends London New Zealand Horoscopes

Author:Eleanor Catton

“The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.”

Giving War Would Be Moving Focus Trouble Cold Cost Unions Spending Defense Operations Agency Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Cia Defense Spending

Author:John P. Wheeler III

“If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.”

Ifs War Would Be Moving Force Peace Risk American Life Lebanon

Author:George Will

“It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so, it would be no argument against the absolute sceptic, inasmuch as he does not admit that no contradictory propositions are true. Indeed, it would be impossible to move such a man, for his scepticism consists in considering every argument and never deciding upon its validity; he would, therefore, act in this way in reference to the arguments brought against him.”

Ifs Men Way Doe Self Would Be Moving Mistake Impossible Argument Absolutes Skepticism Considering Propositions Contradictory Validity Scepticism Sceptic

Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

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