I Quotes
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“I would have done just about anything for him.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.”
“I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.”
“I would have drunk a lot of Pinot Grigio if I'd lost after leading 5-2 in the third.”
“I would have even compromised; you would have expressed something.”
“I would have every man write what he knows and no more.”
Source: Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
“I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.”
“I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.”
“I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.”
Source: Evening
“I would have fallen in love with you sooner, if you'd let me.”
Source: How to End a Love Story
“I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
“I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.”
Source: This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary
“I would have fired at him,' I breathed, 'if he had tried to hurt you.'
I hadn't even admitted that to myself.
His eyes flickered. 'I know.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I would have followed you. My brother. My captain. My king.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.”
“I would have fought for the rest of my life to find a way to return to you again.”
Source: Empire of Storms
“I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.”
“I would have found something because I love to entertain people. I had the option to take the rest of the year off. But I said the songs on my last solo album, '24 Karat Gold,' mean so much to me. I need to get out there and sing them.”
“I would have found you anywhere.” He reached forward. Tugged that piece of her hair, then tucked the curl behind her ear. “Across the world and under it. No matter how well you hide. It doesn’t matter where you go. I’ll always find you. Understand?”
Source: Foul Heart Huntsman
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880
“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.”
“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”
“I would have given her my very last breath, but as you know, she already took hers.”
Source: Counting Stars
“I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.”
Source: The Marriage of Sticks
“I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.”
“I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.”
“I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.”
“I would have given the world to take back what I had said; but a word once spoken, who can recapture it?”
Source: Kidnapped
“I would have given you my secrets the first I came with you to this house. I told you then that such a place could draw you out of eternity, that it was as the castles of old. Remember the patterns, Julien, the graceful battlements. And through the mist you will see them, distinct. But you would not have my lessons then. Will you have them now? I know you. You are alive. You didn’t want to hear about death.”
Source: Lasher
“I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.”
“I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.”
“I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.”
“I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.”
“I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.”
Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.”
“I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.”
“I would have had fun doing just about anything.”
“I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.”
“I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.”
“I would have handled it differently than the mayor of Baltimore, that's for sure. I think it's a mistake to say, hey, guys, you can pillage the city for a while and we'll let that go, and we'll be sort of standing back. I think it's also important to know some of the underlying causes of why there's unease in our country.”
“I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.”
“I would have hoped you would have learned by now. No matter, a man who refuses to face his destiny offers himself to the GOD of chance—and chance is a wayward bitch.”
Source: The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity
“I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus." I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria].”
“I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.”
Source: Eat Less Cottage Cheese and More Ice Cream: Thoughts on Life from Erma Bombeck
“I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.”
“I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."”
“I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this. ... I have no moral obligation to submit to the justice of my enemies. I have therefore chosen the manner of death of the great Hannibal.”
“I would have lied to you until we died. Sometimes honesty is cruelty, and love is lies.”
Source: The Bone Maker
“I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.”
“I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.”