I Quotes
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“Is coronavirus a divine punishment for humanity? Nonsense! So what is this? What are you? You're just a creature trying to exist! And the virus is also a creature trying to exist! All this is just about trying to survive! There is nothing divine here, nothing devilish here!”
“Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?”
Source: The Law Of Dreams
“Is COVID-19 your final destination?”
“Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.”
“Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?”
“Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?”
Source: The Human Script
“Is darkness God too? Yes, but we have to turn on the light to see Him.”
“Is darkness itself bad, or has the dominance of light stripped us of our vision in the dark?”
“Is dat een hakenkruis op dat stuk steen?"
"Het is een zegel", zei ze. "Van de beschaving uit de Indusvallei. Van rond 1500 voor Christus. De swastika was een belangrijk religieus symbool van onze verre voorvaderen."
Ik grijnsde. "Of misschien probeerden ze ons ergens voor te waarschuwen.”
Source: If The Dead Rise Not
“Is dat niet altijd zo? Je ouders zijn je helden totdat het standbeeld dat je voor hen hebt gemaakt afbrokkelt tot alleen de echte persoon overblijft.”
Source: Kleine gelukjes: Studeren is de beste tijd van je leven… [Toch?]
“Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Is Death miles away from this house,
Reaching for a window in Cincinnati
Or breathing down the neck of a lost hiker
In British Columbia?
Is he too busy making arrangments,
Tampering with air brakes,
Scattering cancer cells like seeds,
Loosening the wooden breams of roller coaster
To both with my hidden cottage
That visitors find so hard to find?
Or if he stepping from a black car
Parked at the dark end of the lane,
Shaking open the familiar cloak,
Its hood raised like the head of a crow,
And removing the scythe from the trunk?
Did you have any trouble with the directions?
I will ask, as I start talking my way out of this”
“Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?”
Source: Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Is death that which gives meaning to life?”
Source: Sixty stories
“Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.”
“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”
Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
“Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.”
“Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.”
“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“Is dessert okay? Maybe some kind of bread pudding with homemade ice cream---simple, but hearty and good?"
We all nodded. "I'd like to do a raw fish appetizer," said Bald Joe. "Maybe a crudo with hamachi?"
"And I'd like to do an entrée," Vanilla Joe said. "A beef dish. Which means our other entrée should probably be seafood."
I nodded. "I can do a slow-cooked black bass." We'd done one at the Green Onion that I loved. It had a preserved tomato broth and cauliflower and a pile of nutty grains. I could do farro.
That left Bald Joe and me to divide another appetizer and a dessert between us. "I can do a dessert," I offered, thinking about a deconstructed baklava, but Vanilla Joe shook his head.
"No. Joe here is already doing one appetizer; we can't make him do two. He'll get overwhelmed."
"I really don't mind," said Bald Joe. "As long as Sadie helps me put everything together. I'd rather do an appetizer. I'm not great at pastry."
Vanilla Joe shook his head before I could speak up and say of course I would help. "Joe, I want you doing a dessert, so Sadie, you pick an appetizer."
Fine. Whatever. I hashed it out with the rest of the team, decided I would make a sunchoke soup with bacon and thyme. Vanilla Joe squinted at me. "I didn't think bacon was kosher."
"I don't cook kosher food," I explained patiently. I actually didn't mind; I was used to it. Kosher cooking had a long list of rules: no pork, no shellfish, no combining meat and dairy, among many others. Grandma Ruth had kept kosher, and I had total respect for everyone who did, but it wasn't me.”
Source: Sadie on a Plate
“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”
Source: Limbo
“Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.”
“Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.”
“Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?”
“Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?”
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.”
“Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you're going to close the Internet, realize, America, what that entails. That entails getting rid of the First amendment, ok? It's no small feat.”
“Is driving a right? You are entitled to a driving license if you can abide by the traffic laws and drive responsibly. If your driving endangers the lives of others, that license will be taken away from you. So rights and responsibilities are inseparable. If you can't respect the rights of others, if by your belief and conduct you endanger the lives of other people, you are not entitled to any right.”
“Is drunk dancing a type?”
“Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!”
“Is dying hard, Daddy?
No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.”
“Is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality?”
Source: Recursion
“Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest.”
“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
“Is education today improving the economic wellbeing of humanity?”
“Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.”
“Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.”
“Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Is enthusiasm important in selling? Yes, genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking.”
“is er een plek
waar eenlingen komen
en hun woorden en gedachten
een tafel vinden
een pen
en soms
een reflecterend licht
een gezicht dat herkent
ik ben de lege woorden moe
van de samengeklonterden
ik wil de eenlingen
horen spreken.”
“Is er nog iets vanwaar ik droom? Ja, één enkel iets, iets wat helaas onmogelijk geworden is.”
Source: De engel in de duivel
“Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.”
“Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.”
“Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?”
“Is everybody going along with this?”
“Yeah. So you have to, too.”
Ellie paused. “No, I don’t,” she said after a moment.
“What?”
“I don’t have to go along with it.”
“But I just said that everybody else is.”
“I don’t care. Holly’s my best friend. Why would I do something like that to her?”
“Because she’s weird. And if you don’t go along with the rest of us, everyone will think you’re weird, too.”
“They already think I’m weird.”
“Well, maybe you could change that.”
“I’d rather be weird than mean.”
Source: Here Today
“Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.”
“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
Source: An American Prayer
“Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...”
“Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?”