I Quotes
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“I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.”
“I could warn Randalin that he ought to be afraid of the way that Cardan is looking at him.
Cardan turns to me, and some of the heat of his anger is still in his eyes. 'Jude, would you give me and the councilor a moment alone? I have a few things I would like to urge him to consider. And Grima Mog has brought you soup.'
'I don't need anyone to help me tell Randalin that this is my home and my land and that I am going nowhere and relinquishing nothing.'
'And yet,' Cardan says, clamping his hand on the back of the councilor's throat, 'there are still some things I would say to him.'
Randalin allows Cardan to hustle him into one of the other royal parlours. Cardan's voice goes low enough for me to not make out the words, but the silky menace of his tone is unmistakable.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“I could warn you about the dangers of letting a wolf loose with sheep," he said with shadowed eyes.”
Source: Hades And Persephone: Curse Of The Golden Arrow
“I could waste my time counting all the hurts that you have caused me. But I choose to rebuild myself by counting all the strong points that I still have in me.”
“I could watch her dance for hours,
Because she's always dancing inside of my heart.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.”
“I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against.”
“I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.”
“I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.”
“I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.”
“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
“I could wish for that on every candle, star, clover, and eyelash in the world and never ever get it.”
Source: The Siren
“I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason that I have not seen the Palais Royal - nor the facade of the Louvre - nor have attempted to swell the catalogues we have of pictures, statues, and churches - I conceive every fair being as a temple, and would rather enter in, and see the original drawings and loose sketches hung up in it, than the Transfiguration of Raphael itself.”
Source: A Sentimental Journey
“I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.”
“I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.”
“I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.”
“I could worn Randalin that he ought to be afraid of the way that Cardan is looking at him.
Cardan turns to me, and some of the heat of his anger is still in his eyes. 'Jude, would you give me and the councilor a moment alone? I have a few things I would like to urge him to consider. And Grima Mog has brought you soup.'
'I don't need anyone to help me tell Randalin that this is my home and my land and that I am going nowhere and relinquishing nothing.'
'And yet,' Cardan says, clamping his hand on the back of the councilor's throat, 'there are still some things I would say to him.'
Randalin allows Cardan to hustle him into one of the other royal parlours. Cardan's voice goes low enough for me to not make out the words, but the silky menace of his tone is unmistakable.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.”
“I could worry that I'm going to bleed to death, you know, from cutting my finger on a sandwich packet, you know, if I sort of open a sandwich.”
“I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.”
“I could write a book on the things I've done drunk.”
“I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology”
Source: Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze
“I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries.”
“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.”
“I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.”
“I could write an epic poem about your thighs.”
“That would amuse polite society rather too much, and I wouldn’t like that.”
“I wouldn’t either.” She pressed her cheek to his belly. “I can’t think of a word to rhyme with marble column.”
Source: My Favorite Bride
“I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.”
“I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.”
“I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly.”
Source: Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)
“I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.”
“I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop”
“I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.”
“I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?”
“I could write stories just as rotten.”
Source: Tarzan's Quest
“I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?”
“I could've enjoyed a cigarette if I smoked back before everyone knew it was bad - say, like, 1923. Everybody smoked back then. There was no medical information against it; they had no idea - it was a paradise. It was a smoker's paradise: 'They're taking my lung out next week. I don't know why. Doctor thinks maybe I'm brushing my teeth too often, but I can't help it because, for some reason, my breath smells like I licked a monkey's ass.”
“I could've had moments when I could've said, "You know what? Let me make another film; this is taking a long time to get distributed." It can be difficult to stay passionate. You have to be that passionate and be prepared for it to get what it deserves. Make sure you have a really good team going in at the beginning and don't have people in your team that aren't there 100%.”
“I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.”
“I could've missed the pain, but I would've missed the dance.”
“I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason.”
“I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.”
“I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets." "Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps.”
“I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.”
“I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.”
“I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.”
“I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much.”
Source: Now And Then
“I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.”