I Quotes
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“I would not be able to change a sparking plug and I would not be able to fly a spaceship or build a rocket or whatever. But what I am good at doing is finding brilliant people and surrounding myself with brilliant people.”
“I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.”
“I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying.”
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students who have guided and aided me throughout my scientific life. I wish I could name them all and tell you their contributions. More, however, than anyone else it was the late Rudolf Schoenheimer, a brilliant scholar and a man of infectious enthusiasm, who introduced me to the wonders of Biochemistry. Ever since, I have been happy to have chosen science as my career, and, to borrow a phrase of Jacques Barzun, have felt that 'Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment'.”
“I would not be as married to locations and ideas, when I show up in the city that I'm actually going to shoot it in. You really have to roll with it. That perfect thing you have in your head just isn't going to be there sometimes, and you have to figure out what you're going to do, if you can't find it.”
“I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.”
Source: The Sirian Experiments (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 3)
“I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).”
“I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.”
“I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.”
“I would not be concerned with the secrets, the lies, the mysteries, the facts...I would be concerned with what makes them necessary.
- Anaïs Nin”
Source: The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life
“I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.”
“I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.”
“I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up.”
Source: Paper Towns
“I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.”
“I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.”
“I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.”
“I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.”
“I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.”
“I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“I would not be hurried … to underrate the Book. … As the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes, so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge… I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.”
Source: The American Scholar
“I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.”
“I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.”
“I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.”
“I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.”
“I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.”
“I would not be separated from my sisters until they both left me first.”
Source: Medusa's Sisters
“I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.”
“I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.”
“I would not be surprised to see the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm featured on a crime show in the future.”
“I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.”
“I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!”
“I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.”
“I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain.”
“I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.”
Source: MY COUSIN RACHEL
“I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.”
“I would not bend.
They could not make me Pliable.
My mind was strong.
My mind was mine.”
Source: Blue Fire
“I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“I would not buy a second hand car in Florida due to the high risk of flood damage.”
“I would not buy a second hand home in Florida.”
“I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.”
“I would not call it a writer's block. A writer's block to me is a temporary thing. A month, you know, six weeks. This was more a writer's blockade. To me, this was very much like the Vietnam War. It was the same timetable, it was on the same schedule as the Vietnam War. I don't know how I got into it and I couldn't get out of it.”
“I would not call it my property in the name of my good and futuristic heritage.”
“I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.”
“I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.”
“I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.”
“I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.”
“I would not change anything I've done or what I've lived, and with whom I have lived it.”
“I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.”
Source: The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts
“I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold”
Source: Dr. Watts's Divine and Moral Songs, etc