I Quotes
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“Is that where—?’ whispered Professor McGonagall.
‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘He'll have that scar for ever.’
‘Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?’
‘Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London underground. Well—give him here, Hagrid—we'd better get this over with.’ Dumbledore took Harry in his arms and turned towards the Dursleys’ house.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?”
“Is that who I am? A person who treats people like loosely penciled-in backup plans, in case nothing better comes a long?”
Source: Funny Story
“Is that why I always feel worried for you? Because I love you?”
Source: It Starts with Us
“Is that why my ancestors built observatories and looked at the night sky? Did you want them to look at the place you came from?"
"What funny thoughts you have," he said. What would I care about the heavens when I reside in the Underworld?"
"I would care. All I could do sometimes was stare at the sky," she admitted.
"Whatever for?"
"Because it made me think one day I'd be free," she told him.”
Source: Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Is that why they’re squabbling over her? They’re trying to marry an heir to the throne? I’m sorry, Tristen, but that’s like some medieval play.”
Source: Dust
“Is that why war endures?
No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Is that why you came here?”
“Some sort of walk on the wild side?”
Source: Wicked Cowboy Wolf
“Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at school are getting frightfully lax about it.' 'Are they? How remiss of them. We're taught from the cradle how to look down our noses, you know, we rich sons of bitches. Perhaps Westcliffe's curriculum is a tad too liberal these days.”
“Is that why you didn't call me? Because I'm an idiot?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn't an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“Is that why you paint your toes?” he asked, his head still bowed over her foot. “For men?”
Ivy shook her head. “No. I do that for me.”
“Good,” he said, his gaze capturing hers as he looked up. “Don’t ever do anything for a man you don’t want to do for you.”
Source: The Colonel's Daughter
“Is that why you stare at the stars?” he asked. “Are you searching for beauty or dreaming with your eyes wide open?”
Source: Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Is that why you've been pushing me away? Because of how you look? [...] I waited for you my whole life. Yearned for you my whole life. After Tersa told me you were coming, I spent seven hundred years searching for you[....] I never gave a damn what you looked like--tall, short, fat, thin, plain, beautiful, ugly. Why would I care about what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory[....] Even if I couldn't be your physical lover, there are other ways to be a lover and I know them all. So don't stand there and tell me how you feel depends on how you look!”
Source: Dreams Made Flesh
“Is that you, Charlie?"
"Sam's making me a milkshake.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Is that your cheap way of telling me you want to kiss me?”
He looks into my eyes, his dark gaze capturing mine. “Querida, I always want to kiss you.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Is that your face or did your neck just throw up?”
Source: Make Me, Sir
“Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!”
“Is that your type? Sinister-looking? That’s not exactly what I envisioned when you said your ex was a poet.”
Source: The Invitation
“Is the air okay?" I texted.
"It hurts a little to breathe," my sister texted back. "But we're okay."
Jesus, I thought, is there a better and more succinct definition of grief than It hurts a little to breathe, but we're okay?”
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?”
“Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of government and promoting individual freedom and opportunity. But the facts, while sad, are clear: More Americans today depend more heavily on government than ever before.”
“Is the any certainty like Faith?”
“Is the any grace like go and sin no more?”
“Is the any model like morality?”
“Is the any religion like a right act?”
“Is the any sincere friend like the Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ?”
“Is the any spectacular moment like the angelic birth of a child?”
“Is the any success without an effort?”
“Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment ... ?”
“Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?”
“Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.”
“Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Is the Bible a “source”? Is a commonly accepted scientific fallacy and misinterpretation a “source”? The “sources” once said that the earth was flat, that the earth was at the center of the universe, and that God created the earth as his special project. Why would we take “sources” seriously? All we take seriously are reason, logic, and mathematics. Sources that are in contradiction of these – and nearly all sources are – are worse than useless. What kind of pathetic human being, what kind of intellectual cripple, has to appeal to sources and authorities? Use your reason and logic … then you will end your dependency on “sources”, i.e. authorities.”
Source: Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
“Is the bullshitter by his very nature a mindless slob? Is his product necessarily messy or unrefined? The word shit does, to be sure, suggest this. Excrement is not designed or crafted at all; it is merely emitted or dumped. It may have a more or less coherent shape, or it may not, but it is in any case certainly not wrought.”
Source: On Bullshit
“Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?”
“Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?”
“Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?”
“Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?”
Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
“Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is revealed truth, the other is scientific truth. If you really believe that creation is good, there can be no harm in studying science. The more we learn about creation - the way it emerged - it just adds to the glory of God. Personally, I've never seen a conflict.”
“Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.”
“Is the cinema more important than life?”
“Is the circle of fifths a drinking game?”
“Is the competition really some mythical beast? No, not really. Knowing how to play your group of salespeople as a team, to overcome the group objective of winning the customers support, is the objective. The opposing team in proper viewpoint is not just the similar competing business to yours. Nor is it the competing franchises of your home office.
No, in order to really be effective in the market place as a surviving business, you must go beyond that philosophy. You must be willing to expand your viewpoint to fully understand who the competition truly is.
Your true competition is simply this: Anywhere that your customer would spend his or her dollars as opposed to spending them at your company or place of business.”
Source: The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly
“Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or what? In a sense it hardly matters. By far the most important question is not what category we place it in, but whether a conclusion is true. A true philosophical or religious conclusion is no less true than a true scientific one. Although universities might divide their faculty and courses into academic categories, reality is not obliged to respect such boundaries.”
Source: The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
“Is the definition of a pessimist a person who only sees what he hasn't got but wants? Would an optimist never see the empty space?
Or is there some other detail I'm leaving out? Is it more complicated?
I don't know. It isn't always bad to see the empty space, is it? Isn't it all right to see both, the filled space and the empty space? You could be in either. I have to try and see everything.”
Source: Fell of Dark
“Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.”
Source: The Man of My Dreams
“Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?”
“Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?”
Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme