I Quotes
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“I would forget that I'm just talking as a human being to fellow human beings. I would think of myself as something special, and that kind of thinking would make me feel isolated. It is this sense of separateness that isolates us from other people. In fact, this kind of arrogant way of thinking creates a sense of loneliness, and then anxiety.”
Source: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.”
“I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers.”
“I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.”
“I would get adult acne when it was somebody really famous I had to interview, so sometimes I would have to look straight at the camera because I couldn't look sideways or profile, because it would show.”
“I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help.”
“I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.”
“I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.”
“I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.”
“I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.”
“I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.”
“I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it.”
“I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"”
“I would get very bored if I just did one thing.”
“I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.”
“I would give a lot to actually be able to glamour China into not wanting ivory. I can't even tell you how much I would give to be able to stop the illicit trade of Africa's wildlife, and to just look into the president of China's eyes and say, "You don't want this anymore, your country doesn't want this anymore," and have it be done. That would be great.”
“I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.”
“I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.”
Source: On the Origin of Species
“I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.”
Source: Elixir
“I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.”
“I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“I would give anything to escape myself, Flynn thought, just for a day, just for a minute even. Just to know what it was like to think differently, to feel differently, and to not be me.”
“I would give anything to hear him say my name one
more time. And anything not to.”
Source: Puck's Legacy
“I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it. And now I will have to be that person forever.”
Source: The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life
“I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant’s wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God’s shrine”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“I would give everything if I could only keep my family.”
“I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.”
“I would give many days of suffering for one simple experience of love, that of love that nothing or nobody will explain in cold analytical terms.”
“I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.”
“I would give my best quartet for a good razor.”
“I would give my heart to the religious so
that they may realize that god
hates us all.”
Source: dead, but dreaming
“I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.”
“I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.”
“I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.”
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”
“I would give Obama a "C." He gets an "A" for understanding this country's profound problems in education, health care, infrastructure, and economic competitiveness, and for surrounding himself with extremely skilled and knowledgeable people who know what to do. He probably gets an "F," ironically, in his ability to sell these ideas to the American public and to be angry enough, conniving enough, and frankly mean enough to get them implemented and understood.”
“I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.”
“I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.”
Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader
“I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you're in the process, you're there.”
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?”
Source: The Fountainhead
“I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.”
“I would give the same advice to anyone, celebrity or not. Produce your own music, keep in original, and be real. You need to earn the respect of your fans for your original work in music, and not rely on your celebrity in other mediums. The same would apply for actors who sing, dance, or even play sports.”
“I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.”
Source: It's in his kiss
“I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.”
“I would give up a thousand happy endings just to go back with you to your valley, and live as we did. I'd give up every fairy tale I've ever known just to hear you say my name again.”
Source: Hunted
“I would give up everything for you, Giulia" I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world.”
Source: Silent in the Sanctuary
“I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.”
“I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.”
Source: The Awakening