I Quotes
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“It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the facts show that if even the humblest product is designed, manufactured, and distributed with a sense of human values and with a taste for quality, the world will recognize the presence of a creative force.”
“It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there in anticipation by hope. But in reality, for the greater part, the contrary is the case. Men cling with their whole being to the earth and everything earthly.”
“It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.”
Source: Speeches and Forensic Arguments
“It would send an unbelievably terrible signal to reformers across the region. It would say we've abandoned our desire to change the conditions that create terror. It would give the terrorists a safe haven from which to launch attacks. It would embolden Iran. It would embolden extremists. That's why we're not leaving Iraq.”
“It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.”
“It would serve us to identify and dissolve the narratives we write about individuals we have never taken the time to understand.”
Source: My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different
“It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.”
“It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.”
“It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.”
Source: An Unforgivable Secret
“It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.”
Source: On Certainty
“It would suppose a lot of renunciation and discomfort to show the Authentic Self into the world.
Traveling through this life, people acknowledge so little about themselves and behave identified with one hundred masks, attracted by the huge gravity of falsity, simulating imposed patterns from social survival instincts. People get estranged from their nature, they get ashamed to reclaim their spirits due to educational, cultural and social enforcement.
You will find some humans that shine their own Truth and never compromise it in any circumstances because they know their genuine nature and this fulfills them, they are always present and happy. They are recognised by their simplicity and understanding kindness. Their hearts are always open and peaceful and their light never dim.”
“It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.”
“It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF" - then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.”
“It would take a fish a lifetime to climb a tree but only a year to cross the ocean.”
“It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned that faith in God and considered myself secular, that wasn't a real option for me.”
“It would take a great deal to crush me”
Source: The Letters of Charlotte Brontë
“It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.”
“It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.”
Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
“It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.”
“It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.”
“It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.”
“It would take an utterly uncharacteristic move on Margot’s part, like murdering someone, to make Elle hate her. Even then, Elle would at least ask why before passing judgment.”
Source: Written in the Stars
“It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.”
Source: The Shadow Throne
“It would take expert navigators, like economists, to steer the world through the purgatory of capitalism and arrive at a future not just of leisure but also of morality. To ensure that human beings would be able to seize their opportunity for an ethical society, one devoted to good ends and rid of foul means, society would have to concern itself with both quality and quantity of population. As long as there was un- satisfied need, Keynes said in 1928, it would “remain reasonable to be economically purposive for others after it has ceased to be reasonable for oneself.” Here was the objective of Keynes’s idiosyncratic eugenics, one that connected the ethics of obligation to plans for social and economic management. Only when the condition of wantlessness “has become so general that the nature of one’s duty to one’s neighbour is changed” would progress truly have been made”
“It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?”
“It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?”
“It would take many reflective hours and long walks and deep readings to come to terms with what had been given to me on that night. That there is no one moment. That my dream of the three white lice had foretold what would happen. Ford's death was already approaching as we lay in our beds the night before the accident, other worlds advancing towards ours, their coming together so deeply rooted in the past that there was no beginning. From before his conception Fordie had been moving towards his death--forgive him that moment of standing behind that truck; forgive that young fellow behind the wheel whose life had brought him to that moment of distraction; forgive the collision of their worlds in that moment that continues living through the lives of others. Forgive.
Forgive me my smallness of mind in believing I could have or might have or should have changed the course of a moment that had been careening towards us for thousands of years and forgive God for shaping us all within the confines of the one transcendent moment that stretches through to eternity.”
Source: Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
“It would take me a few weeks outside that cycle of conflicts to realize that I am destined to be centerless, one lone flaming planet outside of a livable orbit. Opportunistically, I should like to present my definition of destiny: It is what I should have avoided but I dared not. It is what I wanted to embrace even when I saw in it my death. It is the seductive angels of fire and the celebrating djinns. It is what I must break ties with and commit apostasy.”
Source: Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
“It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.”
“It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.”
Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)
“It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your ancestors fought in the Crusades and were often mentioned in despatches, and you cringe like a salted snail at the thought of appearing as Santa Claus before an audience of charming children who wouldn't hurt a fly. It's enough to make an aunt turn her face to the wall and give up the struggle.”
Source: The Theatre Omnibus
“It would take one million men, one hundred years”
“It would take patience to wait for the Last Judgement. But that's it, we're in a hurry.”
Source: The fall
“It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.”
“It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.”
Source: Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.”
Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric
“It would trouble me sadly to make him unhappy, for I couldn't fall in love with the dear old fellow merely out of gratitude, could I?”
Source: Little Women
“It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends. But the greater part are so disposed that the words which enter by one ear do incontinently go out of the other, and begin again by following the custom. The best teacher one can have is necessity.”
“It would've been the perfect time to tell her. To tell anyone. To say, 'I'm drowning and I need someone, anyone, to be my life raft.' To say, 'I thought it had gone, and it hasn't and I'm so scared by what that means.' To say, 'I just want to be normal, why won't my head let me be normal?”
Source: Am I Normal Yet?
“It would've been amazing [to work as programmer]. You're good at numbers, you're good with people, you like to wear shorts in the summertime.”
“It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.”
“It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it.”
“It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.”
“It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.”
Source: General Linguistics
“It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.”
Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy
“It wouldn't be fair to Chevy, and it wouldn't be fair to me. The love I had for him was consuming and powerful and raw. I briefly close my eyes as memories of Chevy's hands on my body and his lips on mine cause warmth to curl in my bloodstream...Even when we fought, we never had problems with attraction.”
Source: Long Way Home
“It wouldn’t be GOD if He didn’t go beyond the limits of things men could do; and so He loved so wholly it swallows up, so deeply it sinks far, so widely it reaches all, so highly it cannot be attained else where; and to talk about how long His love is, is to never end His praise. He has loved us so perfectly indeed.”
“It wouldn’t be GOD unless you were totally mind blown.”