I Quotes
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“I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.”
“I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.”
“I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.”
“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches.”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon
“I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.”
“I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.”
“I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.”
“I would not live alway; I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.”
Source: I Would Not Live Alway.
“I would not live in a home that had not been tested for adverse electromagnetic fields.”
“I would not live ocean front because of the hazards associated with it.”
“I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.”
Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3
“I would not live within the hurricane coastal zone.”
“I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”
“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”
Source: Being Peace
“I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.”
“I would not lose so great an honor
As one man more methinks would share with me
For the best hope I have.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3
“I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.”
Source: The Path of Daggers
“I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.”
“I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.”
“I would not open windows into men's souls.”
“I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.”
“I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it.”
“I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.”
Source: Let Us Consider One Another
“I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.”
“I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.”
“I would not purchase health care insurance in the USA, as it is a mediocre health care system at best.”
“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
Source: True Grit
“I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.”
“I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.”
Source: Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910
“I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first.”
“I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.”
“I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.”
“I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.”
“I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.”
“I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“I would not say Denmark is a multicultural country, but more people live here now who have different roots, backgrounds and religions, more than 30 years ago. This also applies to religions.”
“I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.”
“I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.”
“I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.”
“I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions.”
“I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.”
“I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.”
“I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.”
“I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.”
“I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.”
“I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!”
“I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.”
“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .”