I Quotes
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“I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.”
“I would be sitting in my office watching the Desoto Solar Farm on my computer and I would see massive megawatt drops in power production for no apparent reason.”
“I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.”
“I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“I would be so scared if I was a gay guy...you'll, like, die of AIDS.”
“I would be strongly committed to working with the FOMC to continue promoting a robust economic recovery ... I consider it imperative that we do what we can to promote a very strong recovery.”
“I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.”
“I would be surprised if Donald Trump got elected.”
“I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.”
“I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.”
“I would be the best for women, the best for women's health issues.”
“I would be the best of us, the highest of the lows.”
“I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.”
“I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed--though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman.”
Source: The Hippopotamus Pool
“I would be the first to caution against falling for any man who comes bearing the visible signs of humility on their foreheads, wearing white, and posing for photos with their hands in front of them like pious Catholics queuing for the Holy Communion. Even if they speak with the softer version of Archbishop Palmer-Buckle's voice, it is not enough to fall for their "humility".”
Source: The President Ghana Never Got
“I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure.”
“I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.”
“I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.”
Source: Strength to Love
“I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something that we as modest investigators will never attain, no matter how much we exert ourselves. Nevertheless ... I continue to believe that there is always room for anyone with average intelligence ... to utilize his energy and ... any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least gifted may, like the poorest land that has been well-cultivated and fertilized, produce an abundant harvest.”
“I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make our books, the artists who make our pictures, but in gauging the true culture of the nation and reckoning its tensile strength, let the student not neglect hockey”
“I would be the master of my own fate. Me and the goddess Morrigan. No one else- and certainly no man. Mael and Aeddan could fight over me until they were both bloody. My father could deny me my blade. But they couldn't force me from my warrior's path unless I let them.”
Source: The Valiant
“I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.”
Source: The Loser: A Novel
“I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.”
“I would be there, too, long after the armies had parted ways. I would pick up the pieces their senseless fighting had brought on.”
Source: Incarnate
“I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!”
“I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.”
Source: Timebends: A Life
“I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.”
“I would be utterly emabarrassed to have others around me hear my half of what can only be described as pedestrian. "Yes, the elevator has just pulled up to the 16th floor." Do these people have the ability to go, for say, an eight- or ten-minute stretch without being in contact with someone else? What are they afraid of? Confronting their own thoughts?”
Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
“I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.”
“I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.”
“I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.”
“I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!”
“I would be very lost if I got what I wanted.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.”
“I would be very proud if, one day, I'm held in the same esteem as George Best or Beckham. It's what I'm working hard towards.”
“I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.”
“I would be very surprised if Joe Biden could win against Trump, as it was the failure of the Obama/Biden administration that facilitated President Trump’s rise to power.”
“I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.”
“I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.”
“I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.”
“I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.”
“I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.”
“I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.”
“I would be well hidden, indeed, hidden in plain sight.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.”
“I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.”
“I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews, ban the critics. The readers should be alone with the books, and if anyone dared to say anything about them, they would be shot or imprisoned right on the spot. Yes, shot. A 100-year moratorium on insufferable literary talk. You should let people fight with the books on their own and rediscover what they are and what they are not. Anything other than this talk.”
“I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists. But that's how you find your voice, is imitating other people. So things like that didn't embarrass me, because I thought, well, that's how it goes. That's how everyone learns.”
“I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series