I Quotes
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“Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Is there a magical age when children become parents to their parents?”
“Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents?”
Source: A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other
“Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?”
“Is there [a man] who lives forever ?
He who comes with Osiris passes,
Just as he leaves who indulged himself.
Advance your officials, so that they act by your laws.
He who has wealth at home will not be partial.
He is a rich man who lacks nothing.
The poor man does not speak justly,
Not righteous is one who says, “I wish I had,”
He inclines to him who will pay him.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Is there a market for somebody selling a credit card that helps people pay down their balances? I think the question is yes. But it would have to be sold by a bank that's really willing to invest in being a trusted partner with its consumers, because they will make less money on each consumer.”
“Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?”
“Is there a medical rule that requires doctors-office personnel to treat you as though you have the IQ of a Cheeto?”
“Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?”
“Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?”
“Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?
Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.
You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?”
“Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.”
“Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?”
“Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.”
“Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I figure out how I want to play it?
But no. That's not how it works in real life.”
Source: Forgotten
“Is there a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Soul)? There definitely is, and the Parmatma is within you. Why are you searching for it on the outside? But only if someone opens the ‘door’ for us, can we have the vision of the Parmatma, right? This door has been closed shut in such a way that no one can ever open it by himself. Only the Gnani Purush (Enlightened One), who has become free from all bondage, can help others attain the same.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?”
Source: The Poetical works
“Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to have more sense." "That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Is there a particular way of looking at your love?” she asked.
…..Yes… The way you look at me.”
Source: The Papery Onions
“Is there a phone I can use? (Talon) In the kitchen. (Sunshine) Could you please bring it to me? (Talon) It’s not cordless. I always lose those things or I drop them someplace and break them. The last one I had ended up drowning in the toilet. (Sunshine)”
“Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?”
“Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?”
Source: Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas
“Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?”
“Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven't yet built your tree house, it's never too late to start.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“Is there a point in losing? No, and it feels terrible.”
“Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?”
“Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)”
Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?”
“Is there a problem?” I said, closing my hand around the opening of my potato chips.
“Yes, in fact there is. Students aren't supposed to be up at this time.” He said sternly.
“I was hungry.” I frowned.”
Source: Itchikan: 'til death do us part'
“Is there a problem, Ms. Parker? Something you want to say to me?" Reaching for his tie, he began to loosen it, unraveling it with his fingers, angry eyes still locked on mine.
"I'm not sure I like being your pet. Or science project, I don't know which."
"You have a smart mouth."
"You make smart observances."
"You're going to make this invitation difficult, aren't you?"
"If you're dishonest with me, yes."
"You'll regret it if you don't accept."
"Is that a threat?"
"That's a promise.”
Source: Preservation
“Is there a rarer being,
Is there a fairer sphere
Where the strong are not unseeing,
And the harvests are not sere;
Where, ere the seasons dwindle
They yield their due return;
Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
While the flames of youth still burn?”
Source: An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
“Is there a reason there's not a tampon dispenser in the West Wing basement?" And it was like, "No." Nobody had really just ever thought about putting it there. It's an important story to tell because, well, it was important to do because we needed them, but I think that it's more, like, you should always ask questions.”
“Is there a reason why you seek every opportunity to annoy me?”
“It’s fun. Your scar flashes when you frown. It almost looks like a dimple,” said Vikram. “I’m still waiting for your face to turn red with anger. It might make you look like you’re blushing. Or perhaps I am making you blush?”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“Is there a reason you keep coming back injured when I leave you for five seconds, or is it---" His voice carried too loud, and I clapped a hand over his mouth, shutting him up.
"Don't flatter yourself," I said quietly. "I'm always getting injured when you're around, too.”
Source: Traitor to the Throne
“Is there a reason you know that?"
"Yes. Because everything is worth knowing!”
Source: Jop and Blip Wanna Know #1: Can You Hear a Penguin Fart on Mars?: And Other Excellent Questions
“Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?"
"Not particularly. You have that effect on people.”
Source: Compulsion
“Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day.”
“Is there a right end of a camel for your head to be in?”
“Is there a right time to follow your Bliss? Not really. You postpone your Happiness, following your Bliss, only because you think you have a lot of time later in Life to do what you love doing. But the truth is that there is not enough time. Life comes with an expiry date; it is a one-time, limited-period offer. So, if you are not living your Life fully, happily, you are losing precious time. Simply, there is no better time than NOW to do what you love doing!”
“Is there a scale on which treasures of the universe can outweigh the love of a mother?”
“Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it. It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a woman’s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share.”
“Is there a separation between body and mind, and if so which is it better to have?”
“Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?”
“Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.”
“Is there a sight more beautiful to the eyes than to see your mother breathe life?”
“Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.”
“Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny — not to mention vulnerable — minority. Am I dead inside because I didn’t experience the torrent of emotions I’ve been reading about? Am I as emotionally crippled as Ennis because I didn’t blub and hug after sitting through this ‘visceral’ movie, but instead wanted to go and ‘help with the roundup’?”
“Is there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and symbolic dimension? I'm thinking of Adrienne Rich's notion of the lesbian spectrum. It's not as if sexual identity is binary: one must be either homo or hetero.”