I Quotes
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“I would've said yes before I saw Aaron Gordon do what he did. And Zach LaVine went nuts as well. I think Gordon should've won for what he did. But what LaVine does is amazing. I don't know where he gets that bounce and that glide but it's incredible. I hope both those guys compete it in next year. Over the last years or so, I'd say the three-point contest has been more entertaining than the dunk contest, but this was really special this year.”
“I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.”
“I would, but I know where that hand's been.”
“I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.”
“I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.”
“I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.”
“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.”
Source: Letters to a Friend
“I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.”
“I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.”
“I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.”
“I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.”
“I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.”
Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry
“I would... learn how to drive... have a nice car... and drive it.”
“I wouldn't allow him to take my humanity from me no matter how little he was deserving of it.”
Source: Hollow
“I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.”
Source: Beginner's Luke
“I wouldn't be me without the guilt.”
Source: Enchanting Wilder
“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.”
Source: Bicycle Diaries
“I wouldn’t be surprised if this were a postcoital smoke, the object of his brief affection tucking himself back into his pants or her shirt in some corridor.”
Source: The Becoming of Noah Shaw
“I wouldn’t call Gabriel Walsh if I was on fire.” She pursed her lips. “No, I might. To sue everyone responsible—from the person who lit the match to those who made my clothes. But I’d wait until the fire was out. Otherwise, he’d just stand there until I was burned enough for a sizable settlement.”
Source: Omens
“I wouldn't care how small the world became as long as I had Cassia at the center of mine.”
Source: Reached
“I wouldn't change a moment of the time, good or bad, we've had together since I first turned and locked eyes on you. What a jolt that was through me. I've never recovered.
- Roarke”
Source: Devoted in Death
“I wouldn’t change a thing
Because all those things led me to
this place
And to you”
Source: Take a Bow
“I wouldn't coax the plant if I were you.
Such watchful nursing may do it harm.
Let the soil rest from so much digging
And wait until it's dry before you water it.
The leaf's inclined to find its own direction;
Give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself.
Much growth is stunted by too careful prodding,
Too eager tenderness.
The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.”
“I wouldn't dare attempt to sanitize the actions of the Devil. Either IT is the most abominable creature set upon us to endure, or IT is not. There's no in-between.”
Source: The Possession
“I wouldn’t defy Oberon for just anyone. But, for you …” He leaned forward, touching his forehead to mine. “I’d come back from the dead for you.”
Source: The Iron Daughter
“I wouldn't die for you, I would live for you.
It is easy to die.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“I wouldn't expect a naysayer to understand. But trust me, everything falls into place exactly as it should.”
Source: The Quest for Freedom
“I wouldn’t expect you to know what the word honor means anyway. But when I make a pledge, I uphold it.”
Source: Freed
“I wouldn’t give 2 cents for all the fancy principles, doctrines, philosophies, sciences and institutions in the world, if behind them they didn’t have plain ordinary everyday conscience guiding them in the right direction.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“I wouldn't go around telling people about these shocks of yours."
"Why not?" Lex asked.
"It's like announcing to the would you have crabs. It's embarrassing, and no one'll ever shake your hand again.”
Source: Croak
“I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra”
“I wouldn't have seen the light if she hadn't pointed out, but once sje did, it became impossible to ignore.”
Source: Reached
“I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again. “You must have noticed, right? It’s kind of cute, actually.” Though my heart fluttered, I tried to shoot him a warning glare. He ignored me. “I like to call her Doctor Fisher.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“I wouldn’t just kiss you. I would hold your cheeks and worship your mouth. I would devour your lips and make drunken love to your tongue. I would fucking inhale you, so you would live forever in my lungs...”
Source: First Debt
“I wouldn’t know what to do if I weren’t next to you. That’s who I am.”
“You can’t rely on someone else to define you. Especially not me.”
Source: Waterfall
“I wouldn't know what to do with (color). Color to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a color, the more dreamy it gets.... Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”
Source: David Lynch: The Factory Photographs
“I wouldn’t know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?'
'But then I could wind up with something like you.'
'I’m not so bad,' he says. 'I’m smart.'
'You’re about a hundred miles away from the town of Smart, my friend.'
'You’re mistaken, counselor,' he says. 'I’m smart, I can take care of myself. I’m an awesome tennis player, a keen observer of life around me. I’m a good cook. I always have weed.'
'I’m sure your parents are proud.'
'It’s possible.' He looks at his knees and I wonder if I’ve offended him.”
Source: The Descendants
“I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being...improper."
"Improper, is it?"
"Inappropriate."
"Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.”
Source: Blood Fever
“I wouldn’t listen. I wanted everything to stay as it was. I was more afraid of the truth than the lie. The truth would change the circumstances of my life. The lie was static. The lie was peaceful. I was happy with the lie.”
Source: Long Bright River
“I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. Because their beautiful thinking ignores both history and human nature. Because they'd spoil my thing with their thing. Because I don't think any of them is wise enough to play God and create a human society. Look. I like privacy, I don't like crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like anarchy, I don't even like discussion all that much. I prefer study, which is very different from meditation-not better, different. I don't like children who are part of the wild life. So are polecats and rats and other sorts of hostile and untrained vermin. I want to make a distinction between civilization and the wild life. I want a society that will protect the wild life without confusing itself with it.”
Source: Angle of Repose
“I wouldn’t mind giving everything
to the light right now, after this
dark, dark season. I’m in need
of excess, gluttony, pleasure
that implodes into suffering.”
“I wouldn't mind
if life left me...
wingless
burnt to cinders
ripped by storms
scattered...like weeds
celestially wounded
without cherry blossoms
to perish with
but I would cry
with head held in my hands
if it left me...
unfulfilled.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“I wouldn't need to be so very different for sun to seem to be about sun, for green to be about green, for joy and boredom and anguish and terror and death to all be themselves, beyond the need for any killing clarity, and then this--this, the growing rings of light and water and stone--would take up all of me, and be all the words I need.”
Source: The Overstory
“I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
William made a cutting motion across his throat.
“He might kill you if you’re not careful,” she told him.
“Who, Will? We’re the best of friends.”
William rolled his eyes.”
Source: Bayou Moon
“I wouldn’t say
“Do not reach for the sky”,
Just don’t weep like rainfall,
When it reaches back.”
“I wouldn't say I'm a romantic, exactly. but I believe in romance, which is to say, I believe in calling to inquire about a date instead of texting, & flowers after sex, & Frank Sinatra at an engagement. And New York City in December.”
Source: In Five Years
“I wouldn't say I'm the best," she said, "but I can't think of anyone better, I have to say.”
Source: Thief of Time
“I wouldn't say most hated", said David, leaning back against the alcove wall. "He is up there with the people who made Ovaltine.”
Source: To Catch a Rebel
“I wouldn’t say the media is without virtue, in fact, I'd say it does wonderfully at presenting dishonesty as a virtue.”
“I wouldn’t suggest that we fear the past. Nor would I suggest that we find ourselves frightened by the future. Rather, I would suggest that we learn from the former to enhance the latter. And not to do that would be the thing I’d fear.”