I Quotes
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“I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.”
Source: The Fair Fight
“I'd nodded dumbly, unable to conceive how it was that I still had my grandmother while by baby no longer had his.”
Source: Counterfeit
“I’d normally spare you the details, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of writing a story.”
Source: The Stork Ate My Brother...And Other Totally Believable Stories
“I'd not have thought to find a heron-mark sword in a place like this," Lan said.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“I’d not mourn the lost good memories— I would apply them to my heart as a poultice every time it ached. That was what positive moments were for— to help heal the wounds of the future. As long as we chose to remember them.”
Source: Romanov
“I'd not sign away my liberty to any man,' Alice answered with spirit.'Wives have no more rights than servants.But once we women have the vote,we'll change all that.”
Source: No Greater Love
“I'd offer up my house, except Dad has been home nearly every night for the past week and won't be traveling again until after New Year's. Apparently, the Belgians take Christmas seriously.”
Source: Heretics Anonymous
“I’d often found it funny how the only reason that writers of self-help books were rich and famous was because of selling their self-help books. Whereas, if there was any truth to these books, the person would have to be rich and famous before writing the book and even then the advice in it would be subjective at best. But then people were stupid. And bad taste, as Bukowski said, created many more millionaires than good taste. If you wanted a good example of people’s bad taste, all you needed to do was to consider the most popular book of all time—the Bible.”
Source: The Nihilist
“I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!”
“I'd once asked Jin if the sand sea was like the real sea. He'd given me that knowing smile he used to use when he knew something I didn't. Before I stripped all his secrets away and that smile became mine.”
Source: Traitor to the Throne
“I’d once had a long-term relationship with a Five Point Five that got nowhere near living together. This was because I was a Two Point Five, he was a Five Point Five and he wanted a Nine Point Five. Therefore, we were both destined for a broken heart. He gave me mine. He later found a Six Point Five that wanted a Nine Point Five. She got herself a breast enhancement and nose job which made her a firm Seven (if you didn’t count the fact that she thought she was a Ten point Five and acted like it which really knocked her down to a Six) who broke his heart.”
Source: Law Man
“I’d once heard a spiritual “riddle” that went like this: “What’s the only thing
in heaven that’s the same as it was on earth?”
The answer: the wounds in Jesus’ hands and feet.”
Source: Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“I’d only gone and whacked his front teeth out and they’d stuck in my hand, I still have the scar to this very day. A few weeks later, I got banged up for it; he never went to the police until two weeks later. Somebody had put him wise about getting compensation from the Criminal Injuries Board. Anyway, the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) kicked it in to touch as a ‘no go’ case.”
Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley
“I'd opted for my Illyrian leather pants and a loose, white shirt- and a pair of embroidered slippers that Cassian kept snorting at as we flew.
When he did so for the third time in two minutes, I pinched his arm and said, 'It's hot. Those boots are stuffy.'
His brows rose, the portrait of innocence. 'I didn't say anything.'
'You grunted. Again.'
'I've been living with Mor for five hundred years. I've learned the hard way not to question shoe choices.' He smirked. 'However stupid they may be.'
'It's dinner. Unless there's some battle planned afterward.'
'Your sister will be there- I'd say that's battle aplenty.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I'd painted nearly every surface in the main room.
And not with just broad swaths of colour, but with decorations- little images. Some were basic: colours of icicles drooping down the sides of the threshold. They melted into the first shoots of spring, then burst into full blooms of summer, before brightening and deepening into fall leaves. I'd painted a ring of flowers round the card table by the window, leaves and crackling flames around the dining table.
But in between the intricate decorations, I'd painted them. Bits and pieces of Mor, and Cassian, and Azriel, and Amren... and Rhys.
Mor went up to the large hearth, where I'd painted the mantel in black shimmering with veins of gold and red. Up close, it was a solid pretty bit of paint. But from the couch... 'Illyrian wings,' she said. 'Ugh, they'll never stop gloating about it.'
But she went to the window, which I'd framed in tumbling strands of gold and brass and bronze. Mor fingered her hair, cocking her head. 'Nice,' she said, surveying the room again.
Her eyes fell on the open threshold to the bedroom hallway, and she grimaced. 'Why,' she said, 'are Amren's eyes there?'
Indeed, right above the door, in the centre of the archway, I'd painted a pair of glowing silver eyes. 'Because she's always watching.'
Mor snorted. 'That simply won't do. Paint my eyes next to hers. So the males of this family will know we're both watching them the next time they come up here to get drunk for a week straight.'
'They do that?'
They used to.' Before Amarantha. 'Every autumn, the three of them would lock themselves in this house for five days and drink and drink and hunt and hunt, and they'd come back to Velaris looking halfway to death but grinning like fools. It warms my heart to know that from now on, they'll have to do it with me and Amren staring at them.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I'd paralyze anyone who wanted to hurt me.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I'd parboiled potatoes for too long and wrecked my plan to roast them and serve them alongside prime rib. But I'd thought fast, crushing the potatoes and frying them into little cakes topped with sour cream and salmon roe, then scattering everything with fresh dill.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“I'd pay good money to see him lose it. To be the one he lost it with.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I'd pick you, I say. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years with your dud and your adopted kids and I want our fucking kids to hang out and I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I'd planned to kill the almost-hour fingering some phone apps whose offbeat missions and designy logos had put the make on my contracted pupils. Still, as coke can't seem to help but use its hopheads to accomplish, I found a quiet study of these apps beyond me, and soon enough my antsy friends and I were in a huddle, having misconstrued our need to chatter as the impetus for lectures and confused one another for captivated listeners at whom we could not spew enough.”
Source: The Marbled Swarm
“I'd plotted, as a child, to give my life to the Lord. In college, I'd lost this faith. Isolated, grief-wild, I'd picked through the ruins He'd left behind. If I could still love this orphan world, deprived of His salvific light, which parts of it might even I, broken as I came, find worth prizing?”
“I’d prefer ‘Bonnie Blue Flag’, if you take requests…” Tom had turned and rested his elbows on the bar. His hand was inches from the Colt. These were the men he was looking for.”
Source: Unreconstructed
“I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“I’d pretty well come to the point- the age you might say- when a man knows what he’s losing with every hour that passes. But he hasn't yet built up the wisdom to pull up sharp on the road of time.
And anyway, even if you did stop, you wouldn't know what to do without the frenzy for going forward that possesses you and has won your admiration ever since you were young. Even now, you're not as pleased with your youth as you once were. But you don’t yet dare admit that youth may be nothing more than a hurry to grow old.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“I'd probably love the sound that's made when an air guitarist gets struck by lightning while performing. I'd use that sizzle to flavor my Duck Soup.
Of course, I'm open to seasoning my Duck Soup with other sounds, like Track # 3 from U2's classic 1987 hit album "The Joshua Tree." Though I might have to charge an additional $19.95 for such an exotic flavor.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead?”
Source: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
“I'd rater share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop”
“I'd rather a man prove his worth with deeds, not words.”
“I'd rather act from the neck up,"Gia said."I feel very sorry for those who try get by on beauty only because when the beauty is gone,what will they have left to build a career upon?”
Source: Fallen Angels: The Lives And Untimely Deaths Of 14 Hollywood Beauties
“I'd rather apologise later than miss the opportunity to create excellence by waiting for permission.”
“I'd rather apologize to you for not being who you want me to be than apologize to God for not being who I should be.”
“I'd rather ascend mountains on repeat, with a home encircled by eagles, than dwell among city gazes, witnessing gossip and indifference towards fellow humans. For humans construct mountains, complicating lives, whereas a real mountain is simpler for me to conquer.”
“I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.”
“I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)”
Source: The Clique
“I’d rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love.”
Source: Half-Hearts
“I'd rather be a nodding acquaintance, than a bobble head”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“I'd rather be a poor honest fellow than a rich piece of crap.”
“I'd rather be a semi intelligent thinker and doer...
than a highly intelligent thinker.. or an unintelligent doe”
“I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay.”
Source: Sea of Tranquility
“I'd rather be at work.”
Source: PowerUp Prime Time 30-Day Journal: Your Daily Masterpiece Day Tracker.
“I'd rather be at Wragby, where I can go about and be still, and not stare at anything or do any performing of any sort. This tourist performance of enjoying oneself is too hopelessly humiliating: it's such a failure.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“I'd rather be authentic than true.”
Source: their biography
“i'd rather be beautiful on thee inside where it is never seen by the world but always seen by the one true living God”
“I'd rather be burned than die slowly”
“I'd rather be burned than die slowly
Prefiero morir quemado que apagarse lentamente”
“I'd rather be called immature in those little moments, than be mature and live the rest of my life with those little regrets.”
“I’d rather be completely alone with my thoughts then be around anyone with a toxic attitude.”
“I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.”
“I'd rather be half-assed at a hundred things than a virtuoso at one.”
“I’d rather be hated by standing for what’s right than enduring emotional anguish for remaining silent; by remaining silent there is no confrontation nor truth and peace prevails.”