I Quotes
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“Is there such a thing as too much social media?”
“Is there such a thing as too much social media?
If you think that there is, please contact us on:
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, wechat, WhatsApp, Youtube, QQ, Sina Weibo.
And we will get back to you.”
“Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.”
“Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.”
“Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself.”
“Is there world enough for me?”
“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”
Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain
“Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.”
“Is this 12B? This is going to be fun!” The British accent cut through the air like a wire cutter through clay. It sliced into me and my peaceful serenity that I had created.
“No, no, no, no,” I said, a little too emphatically.
“No, this isn’t 12B or no, this isn't going to be fun?”
“You’ve got to be kidding me!”
Source: The Paris Soulmate
“Is this a collaboration? I promised Eve she would be my first.”
“Pretty sure Moses was your first. Better let her down gently.”
Source: Plier
“Is this a conspiracy to find me a wife? Are engagements infectious? When one has been announced, it needs must be followed by another?”
Source: The Matchmaker of Pemberley: An Amorous Sequel to All Jane Austen's Novels
“Is this a coordinated conspiracy? The uncomfortable truth was that I didn’t know. Despite everything that had occurred, we still didn’t know what Trump knew, and the answer would likely come only from him or his inner circle. I was skeptical that all the different threads amounted to anything more than bumbling incompetence, a confederacy of dunces who were too dumb to collude as someone joked. In my view, they were most likely a collection of grifters pursuing individual personal interests, their own money, and power-driven agendas.”
Source: Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump
“Is this a dagger I see before me?' he mumbled.
'Um. No, my lord. It's my handkerchief, you see. You can sort of tell the difference if you look closely. It doesn't have as many sharp edges.”
Source: Wyrd Sisters
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?”
“Is this a dream? If so, let me never wake up.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?”
“Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?”
“Is this a good time to pat your shoulder?”
“Is this a good time to raise the question of seat belts?" asked Giordino with his feet raised and wedged against the dashboard of the L-29 Cord town car.
Pitt shook his head. "Not optional equipment in 1930.”
Source: Treasure
“Is this a great country, or what?”
“Is this a haunting? I asked her and she looked at me as if surprised. No, she said, turning the radio down, not technically. More like a manifestation. I accused her of quibbling over semantics and she accused me of being incapable of nuance.”
Source: Salt Slow
“Is this a holy thing to see,
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery,
Feed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!
And their sun does never shine,
And their fields are bleak & bare,
And their ways are fill'd with thorns;
It is eternal winter there.
For where-e'er the sun does shine,
And where-e'er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.”
Source: Songs of Experience
“Is this a human thing I do not understand? Do you enjoy endangering yourself?”
She blows out an angry breath and her eyes narrow at me. Her hands go to her hips. “Fuck you.”
I go very still. I have heard that human word before. They spout it from time to time, but I have dismissed it as babble. It was not one I learned when the Elders’ Cave taught me their words, but one I overheard Jo-see say to Haeden recently, in between kissings. Lust blazes through me, surprising in its intensity. I study Mah-dee. Under the furs, I know her form is lush and thick, healthy and solid. She is not built like tiny Jo-see, but strong and plump with good health. Her hair is a strange pale color, but her round face is appealing for all its human strangeness. I am surprised…and honored that she has chosen me as a pleasure-mate. “You wish me to fuck you? I accept.”
Source: Barbarian's Taming
“Is this a kissing book?”
Source: William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays
“Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child’s riddle?”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Is this a Mexican standoff? Actually, no. If my movie knowledge serves me, a Mexican standoff requires three people—one of whom must be Salma Hayek.”
Source: Fries and Alibis
“Is this a negative perspective? The stance of a victim? No, It is a statement of truth. The way it is for a woman who refuses to be cast aside without protest. Who has the courage to bare her face and her heart to the reality of her partner’s infidelity. Who will now accept and tolerate nothing but the truth.
Will she falter? Will she hide? Will she feel she can’t go on? Of course she will. She is human. That is what is so real about her and what is so beautiful about her, even in her grief, and in her rage.”
Source: After His Affair: Women Rising from the Ashes of Infidelity
“Is this a Netherling flu?”
Source: Untamed
“Is
this
a potato? It's so smooth! It doesn't have that muddy, earthy smell to it! It's not fluffy or dry, and it just melts away in my mouth!"
"This is 'potato stewed in butter.' It's a dish I learned from Ajihyakusen, an izakaya in Sapporo.
For the soup, you use the ichiban-dashi of a katsuobushi. That way you won't waste the scent of the potato.
And for ten potatoes, you place half a pound of salted butter into the dashi...
...flavor it with a very slight amount of salt and sugar, and stew it over extremely low heat.
In about forty minutes, the potatoes will start to float in the dashi. If you keep boiling the potatoes, they'll sink again and then come floating back up in two and a half hours.
All you need to do after that is to boil it for about thirty more minutes, and it's done."
"Then you boil it for almost four hours total?"
"Right. It takes a whole day to cook this, so even though this dish only costs 600 yen, you have to order at least a day in advance to eat it at the izakaya.
The dishes Kurita and I made the other day were all made to your order. They were dishes that
avoided
the true nature of the potato. But this is a dish that draws out the full taste of the potato in a very straightforward way.
By cooking the potato for several hours over low heat, the flavor of the potato seeps out into the dashi, and when that happens, the unique muddy smell of the potato disappears. The potato can be easily broken apart in the soup, and it melts away on your tongue."
"That's the biggest difference from the other potato dishes."
"You can taste the true flavor of the potato with it.”
Source: Izakaya: Pub Food
“Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?”
Source: Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.”
“Is this a racial thing, a gun thing, or both?”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“Is this a reality or a dream?" she whispered.
"Being with you has always been a dream.”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“Is this a textbook case of bad faith, of lying self-deception combined with outrageous stupidity? Or is it simply the case of the eternally unrepentant criminal (Dostoevski once mentions in his diaries that in Siberia, among scores of murderers, rapists, and burglars, he never met a single man who would admit that he had done wrong) who cannot afford to face reality because his crime has become part and parcel of it? (...) During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle destiny for the German people” [der Schicksalskampf des deutschen Volkes], coined either by Hitler or by Goebbels, which made self-deception easier on three counts: it suggested, first, that the war was no war; second, that it was started by destiny and not by Germany; and third, that it was a matter of life and death for the Germans, who must annihilate their enemies or be annihilated.”
Source: The Portable Hannah Arendt
“Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever book that temporarily impressed a few people and will otherwise go as quickly as it came?”
Source: One Taste
“Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Is this about my birth parents?"
The frown lines on her mother's forehead deepened. "Well, yes..."
"Did Freya know them?" Anna asked. She'd always wondered. Freya had been such a big part of her life since the beginning. Maybe Freya had known something Anna didn't. Silence hung over the room as they stared at one another. "It's okay," Anna finally said. "If you know who they are and don't want to tell me, I'll understand. It doesn't matter anyway." She reached for their hands. "You've been the best parents anyone could ever hope for."
Papa and Ma reached in for a hug at the same time. They were a family of huggers and laughters. Anna clung to them, not wanting to let go.”
Source: Conceal, Don't Feel
“Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?”
“Is this all based on personal experience?” he asked, tapping the book.
She reached across the table and put the book back in her purse. She sighed. “Some of it is loosely based on personal experience.” She took a long drink. “Some of it is based on stories that my friends have shared. Some of it is just…pure imagination. That’s the fun of being an author.”
Source: Going The Distance
“Is this all real? Or is it just happening inside my head?"
"Of course is happening inside your head, Harry. Why should that mean that is not real?”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?”
“Is this chicken or is this fish?”
“Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.”
“Is this cock big enough for ya?” I looked at it. It was certainly medium-sized, and not skinny. I wasn’t sure if it had been a rhetorical question, like when people say “hot enough for ya?” or if he expected a thought-out response. I was momentarily confused, looking at his wielded appendage. “Yes,” I replied, with certainty. It was big enough for me.”
Source: Prose and Lore: Memoir Stories About Sex Work
“Is this coldhearted man the one who will lead us through this war, our general, our white knight? Before we can even backpedal with explanations, Dr. Chance takes a Sharpie marker and draws a face on the latex, complete with a set of wire-rimmed glasses to match his own. "There," he says, and with a smile that changes him, hands it back to Kate.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches.”
“Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?”
“Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!”