I Quotes
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“It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.”
“It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on a long list of progressive causes that would be shattered by a Trump win.”
“It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.”
“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”
“It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.”
“It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.”
“It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.”
Source: Arthur James Balfour V1: First Earl of Balfour 1848-1905
“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).”
“It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.”
Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959
“It would be difficult to find a man still on the early side of his thirties who had acquired wealth and power at the speed that Tom Severin had. He'd started as a mechanical engineer designing engines, then progressed to railway bridges, and had eventually built his own railway line, all with the apparent ease of a boy playing leapfrog. Severin could be generous and considerate, but his better qualities were unanchored by anything resembling a conscience.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.”
“It would be difficult to say to whom Cleopatra was more vital in 32: the man to whom she was the partner, or the man to whom she was the pretext. Antony could not win a war without her. Octavian could not wage one.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.”
Source: Persuasion In Modern English
“It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of Titanic". "Didn't you enjoy Titanic?" "I was relieved when the ship went down".”
Source: Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen
“It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.”
“It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.”
Source: When railroads were new
“It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.”
“It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums”
“It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.”
“It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.”
“It would be dreadfully
ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemed
appropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.”
“It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.”
“It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.”
Source: Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943
“It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.”
“It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is.”
“It would be easier if you invest hour time into your gifting or calling”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It would be easier to be smart if I didn't want to be inside you. Didn't want to feel you come."
She shuddered. Sex had always been a subject they'd never discussed. One of those taboo topics they avoided. It was strange to hear him utter those words, say things she'd never envisioned him saying to her, but they lit her on fire. "If we still feel this way on Friday, maybe you will."
His lips brushed her throat, raising the fine hairs there. "I can give you an orgasm and not fuck you.”
Source: The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
“It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people”
“It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It would be easier if I could hate you. But the sad truth is, I will more than likely love you for the rest of my life.”
Source: The Jewel
“It would be easier to get a computer to cry than to get Estonians to share their innermost feelings.”
Source: Xenophobe's Guide to the Estonians
“It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.”
“It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.”
“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.”
“It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business.”
“It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.”
“It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.”
“It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but for the sake of the people of Nepal for whom it is a daily tragic reality, the world must remain engaged and keep up the pressure on the government and the Maoists.”
“It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.”
Source: Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)
“It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.”
Source: The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
“It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also.”
Source: Angle of Repose
“It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.”
“It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.”
“It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. It's about way more than that though. It's about Seven. Sekani. Kenya. DeVante.
It's also about Oscar.
Aiyana.
Trayvon.
Rekia.
Michael.
Eric.
Tamir.
John.
Ezell.
Sandra.
Freddie.
Alton.
Philando.
It's even about that little boy in 1955 who nobody recognized at first--Emmett.
The messed-up part? There are so many more.
Yet I think it'll change one day. How? I don't know. When? I definitely don't know. Why? Because there will always be someone ready to fight. Maybe it's my turn.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.”
“It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world.”
“It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.”
Source: Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
“It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.”