I Quotes
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“I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind of the timid buyer that when he is confronted with a brusk demand for an order he can't think of anything else to say, whether he wants it or not.”
“I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.”
“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.”
Source: Prophecies Awakening
“I suppose that our intent is good. But sadly, our wisdom is short. For to seek the feeble constraints of any sort of crafted legislation (despite how ingeniously crafted it might be) as a means of reigning in the horrors of our world is similar to an attempt to build a dam sufficient to hold back the whole of the ocean. And I would contend that that seems to be something of a fool’s errand born of our desire to bury our heads in the legislative sand rather than peer into the darkness of men’s hearts. For we must change the hearts of men if we are to alter their actions. And if we are to do that with any kind of effectiveness at all, we must start in the hardest place imaginable…and that is in the heart that lays inside of us.”
“I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.”
“I suppose that part of the gift of life is the opportunity to make it a gift for the ‘others’ in our lives. For then, no one is without a gift.”
“I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself in its totality makes you safe.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“I suppose that’s a valid point. The four of us can hang around a little longer before we leave.”
“Five,” said Greta. “If you think I’m going to sit around up here while the rest of you go off to battle, you are dead wrong, Varney; I’ve had enough of that, and I know my way around the lair.”
“She does,” Grisaille confirmed. “Bits of it anyway.”
“Greta,” said Varney, ignoring this, “under no circumstances are you to go back under the city. We only just got you out of there again—”
“No you didn’t,” she said. “I did. Remember? And if you want to murder Corvin, then imagine how I feel. I had to put up with him and his body glitter and his skull goblet and tiresome insinuations for several nights in a row. I get a say in this, okay?”
Source: Dreadful Company
“I suppose that's one good thing about being obedient and faithful and good. People think you will never surprise them.”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“I suppose that’s really what so many American women are complaining about these days: They find their lives short on story and overburdened with epilogue.”
Source: Deadeye Dick
“I suppose that's the way affairs come to an end. Somebody grabs a fork and stabs the other in the hand. And that's it”
Source: My Italian Bulldozer
“I suppose that’s why people are disenchanted with politics. They expect whoever they elect to change their lives.”
Source: Sleeping Giants
“I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.”
Source: Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate
“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”
“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.”
“I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.”
“I suppose that St. George is our own original St. George, who killed the Dragon and afterwards married the grand lady. In many of the marriages of grand ladies, however, which take place in this parish, the preliminary ceremony of the gentleman killing a dragon is often omitted. I am against all this dropping of the full formalities.”
“I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers certain contradictions at this point, perhaps, because it was stimulated by the writings of George Schayler who, at this point, is considered an arch-conservative, I understand.”
“I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.”
“I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.”
Source: Mister God, This is Anna
“I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.”
“I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.”
“I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.”
“I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.”
“I suppose, that the thought of marrying anyone makes me wish to retreat to the nearest library and hide myself among the stacks”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.”
“I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.”
“I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!”
Source: The doctor
“I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.”
Source: Dracula: Top 100 Classic Novels
“I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.”
“I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.”
Source: CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
“I suppose that's a question most often asked of me by people who would like to make a positive contribution towards a sustainable future and a healthy environment. There are so many things that need to be done that sometimes it seems overwhelming. I try to remind everyone that no one person has to do it all but if each one of us follows our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do, and together we will come up with enough to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.”
“I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.”
“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
“I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.”
“i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.”
“I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.”
Source: Surrender
“I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.”
“I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.”
“I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road Home and Treachery), is that while Gunslinger Bornwas a translation of an existing novel, the next two arcs are really the stories that I've been weaving since I first started working with Steve King on the Dark Tower back in 2000/2001.”
“I suppose the "dilemma" might come up if I see a black athlete from the U.S. squaring off against a white Canadian athlete. Who do I want to identify with? I certainly will not and cannot say that race determines how I see competition. I'm certainly aware of how race plays into the way others see and portray competition some times, but I don't have to invest in it that way myself. Unless it's boxing.”
“I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.”
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.”
“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of rock 'n' roll, you know - that would be ludicrous - but it seems that everything now, it's like the sexuality is the only voice; everything else is gone.”
“I suppose the biggest strain was that Hoodwink is a high-octane character and he's up there like all the time. Once he's on his journey there's no let up for the man, so I actually found it a massively exhausting job to keep that level up.”
“I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.”