I Quotes
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“I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.”
“I suppose you'd have ten wives if you could."
"I'd be sufficiently miserable with one. The other nine would be redundant.”
Source: Cold-Hearted Rake
“I suppose you'd have to say that my interest in the subject fell somewhere between the Land of Hobbies and the Kingdom of Obsession.”
Source: Everything's Eventual
“I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.”
“I suppose you don’t care about anyone,” said Catherine.
Finn paused. “I find few people are worth the effort.”
“A charmer like you?” she said. “No. I don’t believe it.”
Source: Star Crossed
“I suppose you had to," Wes said when Phin went back to join him at the table.
"Pretty much. She seduced me."
"Yeah, right," Wes said. "She said, 'Please fix the kitchen drain,' and you interpreted that--"
"She said, 'Fuck me.' " Phin put two balls on the table and picked up his cue. "I interpreted that to mean she wanted sex."
"Oh." Wes picked up his cue. "That would have been my call, too." He squinted at the table. "Why would she have said that?"
"On a guess? Because she wanted sex.”
Source: Welcome to Temptation
“I suppose you haven’t breakfasted?”
“I have not yet breakfasted.”
“Won’t you have an egg or something? Or a sausage or something? Or something?”
“No, thank you.”
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage society or a league for the suppression of eggs.”
Source: Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
“I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.”
“I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.”
Source: DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE
“I suppose you'll be looking for a duchess now that you're a duke. An ordinary, proper lady."
His breath puffed against her lips. "If I wanted an ordinary duchess, I'd never have fallen in love with you.”
Source: No Ordinary Duchess
“I suppose you'll not let me rest until I admit that I like your company?"
"You're getting to know me well..."
"Very well, I'll admit. You're slightly more than tolerable.”
Source: A Daring Sacrifice
“I SUPPOSE YOU LOVEDHIM TOO, THIS BRAWNY WARRIOR?
NO, but Mystra did.
AND?
And nothing. He died.
HAH! HER TIME AND ATTENTION WASTED!
Not so. She does not regard humans as tools, to be measured by their usefulness to her ends of the moment, but rather as flowers to be nurtured in a garden. Each passing year holds a better display, and affords grander possibilities.”
Source: Elminster in Hell
“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”
“I suppose you really don't need those wires they used tonight, huh?" she said.
"I'm a vampire, not a ghost." He seemed offended.”
Source: Kiss Across Time
“I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."”
“I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call”
“I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother" he smiled a litte sadly. "well. . . When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her." "Do me a favor" Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. "Next time don't just try”
“I suppose you think I should be thanking you, for stepping up to assist in reviving me.'
'I have no illusions that the day you thank me for anything, Rhysand, is the day the burning fires of hell go cold.'
'Poetic.'
A low snarl.
Too easy. It was far too easy to bait him, rile him. And though I reminded myself of the wall, of the peace we needed, I said, 'You saved my mate's life on several occasions. I will always be thankful for that.'
I knew the words found their mark. My mate.
Low. It was a low blow. I had everything- everything I'd wished for, dreamed of, begged the stars to grant me.
He had nothing. Had been given everything and squandered it. He didn't deserve my pity, my sympathy.
No, Tamlin deserved what he'd brought upon himself, this husk of a life.
He deserved every empty room, every snarl of thorns, every meal he had to hunt for himself.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“I suppose you think it strange that people can walk around smiling on a day like today...I suppose you take it as a personal affront that the sun is playing on the leaves at a time when you'd rather see the world collapse in misery and weep tears. Well, Harry, my friend, what can I say to you? Things aren't like that.”
Source: Flaggermusmannen
“I suppose you think this is some big fight between youth and experience? Anarchy and authority? People like you always miss the point, Quentin Quire. It's all about "in" versus "out".”
Source: New X-Men, Vol. 4: Riot at Xavier's
“I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.”
“I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace”
“I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver.”
“I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.”
“I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.”
“I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.”
Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.”
“I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.”
“I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.”
Source: The Lottery
“I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.”
Source: Outline: A Novel
“I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.”
“I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.”
“I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'”
“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
“I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.”
“I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.”
“I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
“I suppose, when you start up in acting, you hope to be given challenges, and you always have dreams about the things you could do and couldn't do, but normally we get pigeon-holed a little bit, as we go on in our careers.”
“I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.”
“I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.”
“I supposed a stalwart chicken begins life in a stalwart egg.”
Source: The Rubicon
“I supposed Tamlin was handsome. Terribly handsome. Even though I couldn't see the upper part of his face, his eyes were fine, and his mouth beautifully curved and full. And then there was his body, which was... was... I hissed and stood.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.”
“I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that couldn’t contain the full cast of characters — it was us. We had to winnow life down so we knew where to put our tenderness and attention; and that was a good, sweet thing. But together or alone, we were still embedded in a kaleidoscope, ruthlessly varied and continuous, until the end of the end.”
“I supposed to hate her, right? But, instead... I saw her... stood there, in front of me, with the rain coming down on her body... and mascara running on her cheeks... her hair looked messy, and all I could think in that time was... I'd never seen anyone more beautiful than her. What should I do then? What am I supposed to do with my life from now on?”
Source: On(c)e
“I supposed to savour is to hold something in your mouth for more than a moment, to linger and draw out its details. Sometimes you are far too hungry to wait, and things get lost. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that I write things into remembrance. I like to linger long enough to name pleasurable things and seek out more.”
Source: Happy Hour
“I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.”
“I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.”
Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski