I Quotes
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“Is my truthfulness inconveniencing your toxic business?”
“Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.”
Source: On Certainty
“Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?”
Source: Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
“Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?”
Source: Poems
“Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?”
“Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?”
Source: Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
“Is nausea always a manifestation of grief? Who am I to know? I have never been thus before. Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.”
Source: Moon Tiger
“Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?”
“Is neither a cure for AIDS nor a way of preventing infection with HIV.”
“Is no revenge of the nerds, you know what, last year when everything collapsed, all it meant was the nerds lost out once again and the jocks won. Same as always ... Some of the quants are smart, but quants come, quants go, they're just nerds for hire with a different fashion sense. The jocks may not know a stochastic crossover if it bites them on the ass, but they have that drive to thrive, they're synced in to them deep market rhythms, and that'll always beat out nerditude no matter how smart it gets.”
Source: Bleeding Edge
“Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?”
“Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.”
“Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.”
“Is not about motivation. Is about aspiration.
No matter what you do... do it for the right reason.”
“Is not absence death to those who love?”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore
“Is not all creation a transgression?”
“Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?”
Source: A patriot after all, 1940-1941
“Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?”
“Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?”
Source: 129 Songs
“Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck
“Is not every human being a mistake, a product of misunderstanding? No sooner is he born than he is thrust into a prison. Prison! Prison! Chains and walls everywhere! Through the barred windows of his individuality, a person hopelessly gazes at the ramparts of external circumstances until death calls him home to freedom...
Individuality! Ah, what we are, what we can do and have, seems to us paltry, gray, insufficient, and dull; but what we are not, what we cannot do, what we do not have, we regard with envious longing that turns into love—if only out of fear that it will turn into hatred.”
Source: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
“Is not every life, every work fine?”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?”
“Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen.”
“Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?”
Source: Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...
“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits, wounded affection, bitterness, marginality, disdain of establishment—I knew we should get on famously.”
“Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?”
“Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?”
“Is not it interesting that you had everything you needed in the first nine months, why is not that true for the next ninety years, because we interfere.”
Source: The Shift
“Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?”
“Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.”
“Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?”
Source: Collected Works
“Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?”
Source: The Law
“Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?”
Source: The Outsider
“Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?”
“Is not light grander than fire?”
Source: Past and Present
“Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.”
Source: Works
“Is not living at all not better than living badly?”
“Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?”
Source: Struggle Till Dawn
“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”
“Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.”
Source: The Fables of La Fontaine
“Is not most talking
A crazed defense of a crumbling fort?
I thought we came here
To surrender in Silence.”
“Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.”
Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress