I Quotes
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“It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.”
“It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.”
“It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.”
“It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
“it wont be long now it wont be long
man is making deserts of the earth
it wont be long now
before man will have used it up
so that nothing but ants
and centipedes and scorpions
can find a living on it
....
what man calls civilization
always results in deserts
....
men talk of money and industry
of hard times and recoveries
of finance and economics
but the ants wait and the scorpions wait
for while men talk they are making deserts all the time
getting the world ready for the conquering ant
drought and erosion and desert
because men cannot learn
....
it wont be long now it wont be long
till earth is barren as the moon
and sapless as a mumbled bone”
Source: Archy does his part
“It wont be much longer now and then there wont be anything left; we wont even have anything to do left, not even the privilege of walking backward slowly for a reason, for the sake of honor and what’s left of pride. Not God; evidently we have done without Him for four years, only He just didn’t think to notify us; and not only not shoes and clothing but not even any need for them, and not only no land nor any way to make food, but no need for the food since we have learned to live without that too; and so if you dont have God and you dont need food and clothes and shelter, there isn’t anything for honor and pride to climb on and hold to and flourish. And if you haven’t got honor and pride, then nothing matters. Only there is something in you that doesn’t care about honor and pride yet that lives, that even walks backward for a whole year just to live; that probably even when this is over and there is not even defeat left, will still decline to sit still in the sun and die, but will be out in the woods, moving and seeking where just will and endurance could not move it, grabbing for roots and such – the old mindless sentient undreaming meat that doesn’t even know any difference between despair and victory.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“it wont be possible to be famouse without courage.”
“It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.”
Source: On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough”
Source: On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.”
“It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.”
“It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.”
“It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.”
“It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.”
“It works much better in the long run, my dear. Monsters breed in the dark.”
Source: The Twins of Strathnaver
“It works on almost any dish; its influence can be subtle or strong, savory or bittersweet, depending on its companions. In this dish it would be smoky, I thought; woodsmoke and paprika. Herbs to heal a troubled heart. A welcoming smile from Marguerite.”
Source: Vianne
“It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to force me to be very thrifty in my language, tighten up my words and not ramble so much. It puts some fiber in the sermon.”
“It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.”
Source: Letters from a citizen of the world (concluded). The Bee, a select collection of essays, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects
“It worried me, this covering of couches. What could be so frightfully dirty that fourteen layers of linens were needed to cover it? Sensing this could be a test, I shifted slightly to see if someone might have placed a pea somewhere under the cushion that I was supposed to feel with my behind. Nothing. I guess I'll never be a princess.”
Source: Fatal Indemnity
“It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money'.”
“It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.”
“It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.”
“It worries me I may tell you. I sit at home every night thinking about it and smoking endless cigarettes. If you call at my place any night after seven I will show you one of them. Quite circular. Like a hoop.”
“It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.”
“It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' John Horgan.”
“It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.”
“It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.”
Source: The Whole Truth
“It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“It would all be fine, even if it went to hell, so long as he was here with her.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.”
Source: A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law
“It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.”
“It would always be a put-on, high school or not, for the whole rest of the world, for the rest of our lives. You couldn’t ever guess who someone was by the way they looked because, good or bad, the way they looked was always just a costume or an act. It was Halloween everyday, for most people anyway, just to feel like they weren’t alone, to belong, just to keep being happy maybe.”
Source: Hairstyles of the Damned
“It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
“It would appear that a lot of people out there are hiding their own dark, socially unacceptable sexual fantasies behind a facade of fake indignant outrage when someone else gets caught with their pants down.”
Source: Why Creeps Don't Know They're Creeps - What Game of Thrones can teach us about relationships and Hollywood scandals
“It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.”
Source: Sexual Politics
“It would appear that the blue sky is actually produced by the solar wind and solar radiation exciting air molecules to emit light, just like a neon lamp!”
Source: Light Forensics
“It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.”
Source: The Russian menace to Europe: a collection of articles, speeches, letters, and news dispatches, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
“It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.”
“It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.”
“It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.”
Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe
“It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.”
Source: Pope John Paul II: A Reader
“It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.”
Source: Works
“It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.”
Source: Comparative statistics in the 19th century
“It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.”
Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
“It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future.”
“It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
“It would be a blessing to play in Brooklyn Nets .”
“It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.”
Source: Collected Works
“It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.”