I Quotes
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“It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.”
Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest
“It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.”
“It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.”
“It would be much more consumer friendly for them to beep you when you swipe your card that says, uh-oh you're over your limit, are you sure you want to use that?”
“It would be my dream to fight against Wladimir Klitschko.”
“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”
“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.”
“It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition.”
“It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.”
“It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.”
Source: A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988
“It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.”
“It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.”
“It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.”
Source: Negotiation, the Alternative to Hostility
“It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...”
“It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.”
“It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“It would be nice if ALL police officers would engage in excellent customer service with ALL members of the public they interact with.”
“It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.”
“It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.”
“It would be nice if at least 1/3 of the people in Korea think that I'm modest.”
“It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.”
“It would be nice if everybody were a little bit more mindful of what kind of product you're putting out there. Nothing's for everybody. People are liked and disliked, but at least be mindful of what you're doing and what your message is, and trying to stay true to your authenticity and what you're trying to attain or what your goals are, and don't let anybody get in the way of that. At the same time, have a goal, and have a message.”
“It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.”
“It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.”
“It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.”
Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)
“It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.”
“It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.”
“It would be nice if police internal affairs would stop lying to the common people.”
“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”
“It would be nice if the story ended differently - if he had burst into tears and professed his love for me; if he had said the same three words back and hugged me; if he had given it thought and then asked if we could try a relationship.
But you know what? I said those three words to a boy who didn’t love me back, at least not in that way. He casually dropped a “love you” later on, and in a platonic ‘you have impacted my life’ way, he was telling the truth. But I knew. He had given it thought, and we were not on the same page. I built up all this courage to say “I love you” for the very first time, and I said those words to a person that couldn’t reciprocate them.
But guess what?
I don’t regret any of it.”
Source: How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
“It would be nice if the streets were free and safe. But please, take this bread and cheese. I'm not demanding your loyalty in return. I just want my people fed.”
Source: A Whole New World
“It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.”
“It would be nice if this [finding really cheap stocks] happened all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't.”
“It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.”
“it would be nice if we could have some glasses that scan a person. Before you date them.
Sounding out Bullshit”
“It would be nice if you as journalists - there are some books that explain the painting [ of Guadalupe] what it is like, the significance, and that is how you can understand better this great and beautiful people.”
“It would be nice if you could let me in on these rules,” said Mia, a bit frightened.
“You are right, Mia. However, this is like life: you don’t even know the rules yet and
you are already expected to play. You haven’t missed anything yet,” replied Madame
Charlotte a bit stiffly.”
Source: The Golden Phoenix and the Blue Jackal
“It would be nice if you have a hit. But I don't think it's necessary to continue with my career at this point.”
“It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other people.”
Source: Danse Macabre: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.”
“It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.”
“It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.”
“It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.”
“It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.”
“It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.”
“It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.”
“It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.”
“It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.”
“It would be nice to find a 'planet of trees and birds' in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!”
“It would be nice to go back to caring about the moon. So many of my favorite authors care about the moon. So much of my favorite literature orients in the direction of beauty. But surely any true appreciation of beauty would admit, exclaim even, that no description of the moon, no matter how stunning, how true, reflects as much beauty back into the world as a missile obliterating a family in their home takes out of it.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This