I Quotes
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“I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.”
“I suppose we all see colors outside our usual spectrum in certain people. And the saddest part of life is having known what it looks like and saying goodbye while a quiet part of you hopelessly searches for it forever in shades of blue, red, and yellow. Perhaps all my writing is just a telling to others of the color I saw.”
Source: Cardiac Ablation
“I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.”
“I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.”
Source: Enthusiasms
“I suppose we are indeed a community; a collection of ice revenants, draugr kings, daemonprinces, and dragon lords… in a beautiful concert with one another when we’re not feuding over scraps at the dinner table.
Heroes, eat your hearts out.”
Source: Jane the Lich
“I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.”
Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“I suppose we faulty creatures can never
feel so much for the irreproachable as for those who are bruised in the
struggle with their own faults. It is a very ancient story, that of the
lost sheep--but it comes up afresh every day."
"That is a way of speaking--it is not acted upon, it is not real," said
Gwendolen, bitterly. "You admire Miss Lapidoth because you think her
blameless, perfect. And you know you would despise a woman who had done
something you thought very wrong."
"That would depend entirely upon her own view of what she had done," said
Deronda.
"You would be satisfied if she were very wretched, I suppose," said
Gwendolen, impetuously.
"No, not satisfied--full of sorrow for her. It was not a mere way of
speaking. I did not mean to say that the finer nature is not more
adorable; I meant that those who would be comparatively uninteresting
beforehand may become worthier of sympathy when they do something that
awakens in them a keen remorse. Lives are enlarged in different ways. I
dare say some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a
violent shock from the consequences of their own actions. And when they
are suffering in that way one must care for them more than, for the
comfortably self-satisfied.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“I suppose we go out to sea because we want, eventually, to come home. I know this now, but it was new to me then. The best way to experience home is to lose it for a while. Then, when it is gone, you can know what it is. You can yearn to return to it. It is a form of wounding. You welcome the scar so it will remind you of where you once were.”
Source: Twist
“I suppose we’ll get used to being grownup in time. There won’t be so many unexpected things about it by and by–though, after all, I fancy it’s the unexpected things that give spice to life.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.”
Source: At Large
“I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.”
Source: River Marked
“I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.”
“I suppose we should contact the local authorities?” said Wilbur.
“I’m a princess,” said Harriet. “We’re in the hamster kingdom. I kinda am the authorities.”
“Yeah, but you’re more a hitting-things-with-a-sword princess than a rehabilitating-villains princess.”
“Being hit with a sword can be very rehabilitating, under the right circumstances.”
Source: Giant Trouble
“I suppose we should send someone to make sure the queen does not come to the wall also,” the king jested.
“I would say that it is too late for that, my lord,” a feminine voice answered from the group gathered in the courtyard. They all turned to find the queen dressed in chain mail and wearing a conical helmet on her head.”
Source: Under the Dragon's Claw
“I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.”
“I suppose we're not supposed to judge people.”
“I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.”
“I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.”
“I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it.”
“I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.”
“I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.”
“I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.”
“I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.”
“I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.”
“I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.”
“I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.”
“I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.”
“I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.”
Source: Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep
“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.”
“I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?"
Lillian shot her a withering glance. "Daisy, don’t be a pea wit.”
Source: It Happened One Autumn
“I suppose when you want something badly enough, when you lose the thing most precious to you, people just become toys, puppets to move around to achieve your goals.”
Source: Bring Me Their Hearts
“I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life. I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.”
“I suppose while we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil; and while he has left us, others are coming into the world at the same time, and probably in this our territory. There is a continuous change, an ingress of beings into the world and an egress out of it.”
“I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.”
“I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.”
“I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse.”
“I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.”
Source: Postern of Fate
“I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.”
“I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.”
“I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.”
“I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.”
“I suppose you come in here often, then,” I say, half teasing. “Bringing your maids and admirers?”
Magiano frowns at that. He shakes his head. “You think I’m bedding every maid I speak to?” he says and shrugs. “Flattered, Your Majesty. But you are very wrong.”
“So, what you’re telling me is that you come to this secret space alone?”
He tilts his head in a flirtatious way. “What’s wrong with a thief wanting a little private time now and then?” He comes closer. His breath warms my skin like the fog that hovers over the water. “Of course, here you are. I suppose I’m not alone, after all.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.”
“I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.”
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday
“I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.”
“I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.”
Source: Just One Wish
“I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.”
“I suppose you could say that Paul is a … hustler? His rich wife Corina paid him grandly when they divorced, wouldn’t you say?”
“That’s called alimony,” I laughed.”
Source: After the Blue Hour
“I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.”