I Quotes
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“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.”
“Idet hun forsigtigt havde banet sig vej gennem græsset, da hun med ét kommet til en lysning midt inde i det, en ganske lille åben plads, som en alkove med gyldengrønne omhæng. Hun havde pludselig følt, at hun her var lige i hjertet af sit kongerige, hun var blevet så lykkelig bevæget derved. Ak, mon hun kunne finde det hellige hemmelighedsfulde sted igen? Hvis hun fandt det, ville hun stå ganske stille derinde, skjult for hele verden.”
Source: The Ring
“Idge says that there are moments when revolution is possible. Most of the time, we’re all – everyone, from the poorest beggar out there to the Patros on his golden throne – caught in the gears, controlled by these invisible forces, and if we act against them we’re crushed. But there are moments when things can change, when the forces balance and it’s possible for people – individual people – to make a big difference. To – realign things. Remake the world.”
Source: The Gutter Prayer
“Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.”
Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays
“Idioma no importa, mensaje es maestro.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off”
“Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.”
“Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.”
Source: Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus
“Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Idiot," I said, before grinning broadly and crushing his mouth to mine.
"We need to pick new pet names for each other," he muttered as I hefted myself up from the ground.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“Idiot.
People say that those who call others idiots are the real idiots. I don't care if I'm an idiot, so I'll call you one. Idiot! You should have told me this earlier! Okay, he's dead! I'm gonna kill him for sure. He's totally dead, guaranteed! -Shizuo
Well, no. I'm the Headless Rider! I'm totally fine. -Celty
No, no, no. That's not even the problem here! If he pulled a blade on you, that's instant death. Gonna kill him...-Shizuo
What about your job? Aren't you on a break right now? -Celty
I don't give a shit. -Shizuo
Come on. I'm not going to let you get fired because of me. Besides, I still need more information to track him down. I'll make the preparations, so just wait for now. -Celty
Fine. But try to make it quick. Gonna kill him...”
“Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.”
“Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.”
“Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!”
“Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?”
“Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.”
“Idiotas
El amor es complicado, lo sé.
Pero nosotros… nosotros fuimos peores.
Expertos en enfadarnos, en alejarnos justo cuando más cerca estábamos.
Unos profesionales en decir «da igual» cuando sabíamos que importaba todo.
Nosotros, que podríamos haber tenido una historia increíble,
elegimos construirla a base de orgullo, silencios y puertas cerradas.
Dos idiotas que se querían mucho,
pero nunca lo suficiente como para quedarse el uno con el otro.
Nos rompimos más veces de las que nos abrazamos.
Fuimos un desastre bonito
pero desastre, al fin y al cabo.
Y ahora… ahora solo queda este adiós que huele a lo que nunca terminamos de ser.
Y lo pudimos haber sido.
Al final, eso somos:
dos idiotas que se amaron mal
y se despidieron peor.”
Pasaje de Bésame, que diré que ha sido mala suerte
Defreds”
“Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic”
“Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.”
“Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.”
“Idiots are bred in captivity.”
“Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.”
“Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.”
“Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great intelligence. Only the intelligent ones feel confusion; otherwise the mediocres go on moving in life, smiling, laughing, accumulating money, struggling for more power and fame. If you see them you will feel a little jealous; they look so confident, they even look happy.”
“Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.”
“Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.”
Source: Darius & Twig
“Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.”
Source: The Atrocity Archives
“Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.”
“Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position”
“Idiots think it’s some sort of punishment to send us away together. Big dummies. Little do they know I love being with you like this.”
Source: Ice Planet Honeymoon: Raahosh & Liz
“Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down”
“Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.”
Source: The Life of Luther Written by Himself
“IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before.”
Source: Interior Chinatown
“Idk what the fuck just happened to us. We used to talk like hell pelhay but now days we act like as if we don't know each other and there's some kinda fight between us. I still want you to stay in my life, as a friend and even more than that but the only thing that I want from you is your acceptance.
You think that I don't talk to you or stuff and I'm trying to ignore you but trust me I never tried to ignore. You know what I just can't ignore even when I want too. And if you still think that I'm the only one who have changed and etc so I'm really sorry and honestly I just can not stay away from you. Love you”
“Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.”
“Idle, archaic, indifferent mentality. I am beginning to feel I might give all this up, as if the challenge were not worth the trouble, might give up all judgement. This state of mind has been with me from childhood, from adolescence - a lack lustre, slipshod, idle, irresponsible, uncultivated, undesiring state. These books, did they ever interest me? These women, did I ever feel any emotion for them? All these different countries, did I want to discover them? Only the inhumanity of things has affected me, and I have in fact been unable to bring this into my own life. I read this verdict in the graph of the tonality of events, of the melancholy of faces, of the vanity and futility of our undertakings. I am still astonished by the mirror we can offer to others, by the loving or ironic image which we still are sometimes in each others' mirrors.
Increasingly, it is machines, not people, who get nervous. People only become nervous if they force themselves to look like machines.
All situations where you have to make a choice come down to this: do you prefer a woman with a very ordinary body but an attractive face, or one whose body is attractive, but whose face is nothing special? The problem is a false one. It is always preferable to be in a situation where there is no choice to be made either because the woman is perfect, or because she is the only one available.”
Source: Cool memories
“Idle chatter feeds busy rumors.”
Source: The Portal and the Veil
“Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.”
“Idle hands are the devil's playthings.”
“Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Idle hands make fretful minds.”
“Idle Jeffrey, when asking his cousin for money: "I fear I have not a mercenary tendency."
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and his cousin, Plantagenet Palliser: "Men must have mercenary tendencies or they would not have bred. The man who plows, so he may live, does so because, luckily, he has mercenary tendencies."
Jeffrey: "Just so, but you see I am less lucky than the plowman."
Palliser: "There is no vulgar error so vulgar, that is to say common or erroneous, as that by which men have been taught to say that mercenary tendencies are bad. The desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combines with honesty, and they cannot take you astray.”
Source: Can You Forgive Her?
“Idle man, chases after fairy tales.”
“Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.”
Source: The Flame Bearer