I Quotes
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“I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.”
Source: Berkeley: Philosophical Writings
“I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?”
Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel
“I might as well have struggled with a bear or reasoned with a lunatic.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I might as well have turned him to granite...I don’t feel like I’m cursed and full of rage. My dirty-blonde hair doesn’t slither and hiss, but the men around me are as cold and hard as stone.”
“I might as well just call you “Bridge to Terabithia” since you make children cry!”
“I might as well marry Castleton," Pippa said. "It will make Father happy. And I shall never have to see the inside of a season again. Think of all the visits to the dressmaker I can forgo."
Penelope smiled at the jest, even as she wanted to open her mouth and scream at the unfairness of it all. Pippa did not deserve a loveless marriage any more than the other Marbury girls did.”
Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name
“I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos Def when he first "got" hip-hop and he went into this memory about how hearing someone rap really affected him. He wasn't simply remembering the event. It was almost like he was occupying that space again. When you can really transport an interview subject like that, your readers can feel it and it helps them to connect with the artist.”
“I might ask if I am a good Dad to the child within me, for all effective parenting begins there.”
“I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance.”
Source: Space Struck
“I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different.”
“I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something in me gave an answer and was the receiver of those distant calls from worlds far above. In my brain were stored a thousand pictures...”
“I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different people that I've met and worked with along the way from the Killers experience, within the band and without.”
“I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.”
“I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.”
“I might be a fan of Audubon, I suppose."
"Ah, birds. I can tell a lot about a person by the type of art they're drawn to. You say Audubon, and I think of someone with a meticulous eye for detail. But that's an easy assumption, isn't it? Not the sort of thing that impresses someone like you much."
"Like me?"
"Uh-huh. Skeptic." He studied her intently, and she was surprised to find herself unaffected, buffered from his scrutiny by her coat and her mittens, her ugly shoes and her padded socks, her warm cup of coffee and her anonymity.
He rubbed his chin with his knuckle. "I would say a person who hangs Audubon on her walls is a person who believes in God, but not necessarily religion. A person who believes in free will, but also in the existence of a natural pecking order, pardon the pun, in all societies. Aware of it, and accepts it. I would say such a person has the capacity to be awed by nature and horrified by it, in equal amounts. A scientist's brain, but an artist's soul. How am I doing?"
Alice smiled. "Remarkable."
"You're not impressed. I see I'll have to up my game."
He looked at her face, her eyes, and she looked back at him blandly, keeping her sharp corners hidden. She had little practice talking to strangers but embraced the thought that she could play the role of anyone she chose, trying on imagined identities to see what fit: businesswoman here for a meeting, opera impresario, wealthy collector, lover en route to a secret assignation.
"Hmm," he said, narrowing his eyes while he watched her. "It's not so much an admiration for the artist as it is for the subject matter, correct? What is it about birds? People envy them the ability of flight, of course, but it must be more. Maybe not just their ability to fly, but to fly away 'from', is that it? To leave trouble behind, be free from boundaries, from expectations.”
Source: The Gravity of Birds
“I might be a killer but I don’t want to become a monster.
- Jung Heewon”
Source: 전지적 독자 시점 1 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 1]
“I might be a shameless flirt, but at least I don't have a horrible temper. You should come tend to my wounds from our squabble in the snow. I'm bruised all over thanks to you.
Something clicked against the nightstand, and a pen rolled across the polished mahogany. Hissing, I snatched it up and scribbed:
Go lick your wounds and leave me be.
The paper vanished.
It was gone for a while- far longer than it should have taken to write the few words that appeared on the paper when it returned.
I'd much rather you licked my wounds for me.
My heart pounded, faster and faster, and a strange sort of rush went through my veins as I read the sentence again and again. A challenge.
I clamped my lips shut to keep from smiling as I wrote,
Lick you where exactly?
The paper vanished before I'd even completed the final mark.
His reply was a long time coming. Then,
Wherever you want to lick me, Feyre.
I'd like to start with "Everywhere," but I can choose, if necessary.
I wrote back,
Let's hope my licking is better than yours. I remember how horrible you were at it Under the Mountain.
Lie. He'd licked away my tears when I'd been a moment away from shattering.
He'd done it to keep me distracted- keep me angry. Because anger was better than feeling nothing; because anger and hatred were the long-lasting fuel in the endless dark of my despair. The same way that music had kept me from breaking.
Lucien had come to patch me up a few times, but no one risked quite so much in keeping me not only alive, but as mentally intact as I could be considering the circumstances. Just as he'd been doing these past few weeks- taunting and teasing me to keep the hollowness at bay. Just as he was doing now.
I was under duress, his next note read. If you want, I'd be more than happy to prove you wrong. I've been told I'm very, very good at licking.
I clenched my knees together and wrote back, Good night.
A heartbeat later, his note said, Try not to moan too loudly when you dream about me. I need my beauty rest.
I got up, chucked the letter in the burbling fire, and gave it a vulgar gesture.
I could have sworn laughter rumbled down the hall.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I might be a small fish in the pond. But I much prefer that over being even the biggest fish in the swamp or the gutter.”
“I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker.”
“I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.”
“I might be a thriller writer, but I know all about romance.”
“That’s pretty obvious from your love life,” the kid sassed back. “Oh, wait. You don’t have one.”
Source: Threat of Danger
“I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.”
Source: Damned
“I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.”
Source: Chime
“I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.”
“I might be able to walk away from sexy, dangerous shifters, but chocolate had me at its beck and call.”
Source: Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic
“I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.”
“I might be an ambassador.”
“I might be an assassin, but never let it be said I wasn't as gracious a hostess as the next gal.”
Source: Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book
“I might be an endangered species.”
“I might be an over thinker.'
'I'll fix you,' he says, and I turn around to face him. He's joking, but I love the idea of being on the other side of the fixing equation. I love the idea that he thinks I'm worth the trouble. I love that buried deep in that sentence is a hint of the future tense.”
Source: Nora Goes Off Script
“I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern children need?” — in other words, with the moral or didactic approach?’ I think the answer is Yes. Not because I don’t like stories to have a moral: certainly not because I think children dislike a moral. Rather because I feel sure that the question ‘What do modern children need?’ will not lead you to a good moral. If we ask that question we are assuming too superior an attitude. It would be better to ask ‘What moral do I need?’ for I think we can be sure that what does not concern us deeply will not deeply interest our readers, whatever their age. But it is better not to ask the question at all. Let the pictures tell you their own moral. For the moral inherent in them will rise from whatever spiritual roots you have succeeded in striking during the whole course of your life. But if they don’t show you any moral, don’t put one in.”
Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
“I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.”
“I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.”
“I might be botching this quote but I agree with the idea that a measure of society is not how it treats its most powerful but how it treats its most vulnerable, including the poor and incarcerated and - I would add to that - the people whose ideas are not currently in favor.”
“I might be broke but I am not Broken”
“I might be broken, but i'll pull myself together. I might have fallen, but i'll get up. There'll be a day where i look behind and say i survived”
Source: Black Knight
“I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.”
“I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!”
“I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.”
“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”
“I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.”
“I might be fired, but I still have friends.”
Source: Jumping Off the Planet
“I might be fragile like a mirror. You might be the rock.
Hit me all you want.
But still in the end I’ll be the one shining.”
“I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.”
Source: The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy
“I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.”
“I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.”
“I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.”
“I might be in love with him after that declaration”
Source: Iron Flame
“I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
“I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.”