I Quotes
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“I would not have a god come in
To shield me suddenly from sin,
And set my house of life to rights;
Nor angels with bright burning wings
Ordering my earthly thoughts and things;
Rather my own frail guttering lights
Wind blown and nearly beaten out;
Rather the terror of the nights
And long, sick groping after doubt;
Rather be lost than let my soul
Slip vaguely from my own control --
Of my own spirit let me be
In sole though feeble mastery.”
“I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”
Source: The task: a poem
“I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.”
Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution
“I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.”
“I would not have believed the level of incompetence that was present in some Ivy League colleges and universities had I not worked for them.”
“I would not have complete confidence in God if He had not come through for me, time and again. My faith has taken years to grow and develop through the proffering of long, desperate prayers and the endurance of hard, exhausting trials. My faith is not based purely on hope for God’s existence but on evidences that He lives and is fully aware of me. Faith has taught me in whom to trust. Faith has shown me to whom I should turn when in need of anything.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.”
“I would not have gone into Iraq.”
“I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.”
“I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.”
“I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“I would not have imagined being asked to be Secretary of State, it was a great honor to serve with President Obama in his cabinet.”
“I would not have imagined that love himself would have such a fatal blow this.”
“I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow.”
“I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.”
“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.”
Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
“I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.”
“I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.”
Source: The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc
“I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself a Christian. It'd be none of my business whatsoever to make any comments about his language, his vulgarities, his slander of people, but I was deeply troubled ... that here's a man who holds up a Bible one day, and calls a lady "bimbo" the next.”
“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.”
Source: Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
“I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.”
“I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.”
“I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States, or candidate for that office, if I and my friends could have had the privilege of enjoying our religious and civil rights as American citizens, even those rights which the Constitution guarantees unto all her citizens alike.”
“I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.”
“I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.”
“I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
“I would not have used the phrase "I'm selling you" because even though that's exactly what you're doing, when you tell people you're doing it - or worse yet, when you tell people "I'm not here to sell you anything," they automatically assume that that's exactly what you are here to do.”
“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
Source: Between the World and Me
“I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120
“I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.”
“I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.”
“I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.”
“I would not knock old fellows in the dust
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
His weapons were the old heart in his bust
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
Source: Selected poems
“I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.”
Source: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down
“I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.”
“I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.”
Source: A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977
“I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.”
“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.”
“I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.”
“I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be.”
Source: Magic Slays
“I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.”
“I would not let my children act when they are young!”
“I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.”
“I would not like a king who could obey.”
“I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.”
Source: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)
“I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.”
“I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.”
“I would not like to be the only woman on the court.”