I Quotes
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“I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.”
“I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.”
“I would never advise shooing away a good idea.”
“I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff.”
“I would never again be the Ariadne who had not been to Opera, just as I would never again be the Ariadne who had never left Earth, just as I would never again be the Ariadne who had never left her parents' home, who had never bled, who had yet to learn to walk. A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would mean starvation. Crawling back into the husk would provide no shelter. It is a paradox – the impossibility of reclaiming that which lies behind, housed within a form comprised entirely of the repurposed pieces of that same past. We exist where we begin, yet to remain there is death.”
Source: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“I would never approach a small-breasted woman.”
“I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!”
“I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me.”
“I would never attack somebody only because they belong to a different party.”
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a TV program...All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over [insert popular contemporary TV program] next time you have a choice.”
“I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.”
“I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.”
“I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.”
“I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.”
“I would never be fearful of any character.”
“I would never be happy if I could not be graceful and humble about what I can achieve.”
Source: In the Land of Boxes
“I would never be happy till I managed to separate God from religion...God was infinitely bigger than I had ever imagined, infinitely more mysterious, and infinitely more kind. He was not to be held inside culture or tradition, nor could he ever be fully understood by a finite mind.”
Source: The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
“I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.”
“I would never be into splitting up. I don't think we should ever break up, I really don't. I think we should allow each person to do things individually - go off and have a baby, lie on the beach, whatever - but still remain Girls Aloud.”
“I would never be on a reality show.”
“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.”
“I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.”
Source: Wintergirls
“I would never be satisfied, would never be sated, not with his touch, not with his cocks, not with the way he made me feel when he was inside me, claiming me, owning me, body and soul.”
Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it's possible. So I prefer the term 'possibility model' to 'role model.'”
“I would never be so foolish as to underestimate the power of evil. But neither would I underestimate the power of good as held against evil’s overestimation of itself.”
“I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.”
“I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that.”
“I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.”
“I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship.”
Source: Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three
“I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You may not be the most clever boy, nor the most prudent, nor the most gentlemanlike, nor...Edward cleared his throat.Right! But you have a good heart, and I have every hope that with the proper education and mentoring you will be credit to the family yet.”
Source: The Silent Governess
“I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.”
“I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“I would never betray Venda.”
“Sometimes we’re all pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“I would never betray you," she responded automatically, then bit her lip.
He raised one eyebrow.
"Okay, other that boinking your enemy, I would never betray you," she qualified.
He huffed a laugh, "Boinking?"
"I believe that's one of Sheldon's terms.”
Source: Night Unbound
“I would never bring a woman into my personal hell. I know Lazar is coming. You know it as well. I would be divided. Need to protect her. Want to live for her." She would be his Achilles heel.”
Source: Leopard's Wrath
“I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?”
Source: Ghost Town
“I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.”
“I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.”
“I would never call people that are born in America who are from Mexico terror babies.”
“I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.”
“I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.”
“I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.”
“I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.”
“I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.”
“I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.”
“I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.”
“I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.”
“I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.”
“I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all.”
“I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.”