I Quotes
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“Is this what we're here for? To cultivate a fear-based adherence to reductive common values?
What can this lead to in an imperfect world full of sloppy, complex humans? Is it possible we will call each other out until there's no one left beside us?
I've had tons of conversations with people who, in these moments of public flaying, avoid stepping up on the side of complexity or curiosity because in the back of our minds is the shared unspoken question: When will y'all come for me?”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“Is this what you do with your spare time?” he asked me, ignoring his sister.
“What—are you deciding to talk to me now?” Smiling tightly, I grabbed a handful of mulch and dumped it. Rinse and repeat. “Yeah, it’s kind of a hobby. What’s yours? Kicking puppies?”
Source: Obsidian
“Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?' Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.”
“Is this what you imagined I'd be like, back in your rooms at Hollow Hall, when you thought of me and hated it? Is this how you pictured my eventual surrender?'
He looks absolutely mortified, but there's no disguising the flush of his cheeks, the shine of his eyes. 'Yes,' he says, sounding like the word was dragged out of him, his voice rough with desire.
'Then what did I do?' I ask, my voice low.
I reach out to press my hand against his thigh.
His gaze shimmers with a sharp spike of heat. There's a wariness in his face, though, and I realise he believes i might be asking him all this because I'm angry. Because I want to see him humiliated. But he keeps speaking anyway. 'I imagined you telling me to do with you whatever I liked.'
'Really?' I ask, and the surprised laugh in mny voice makes him meet my gaze.
'Along with some begging on your part. A little light grovelling.' He gives me an embarrassed smile. 'My fantasies were rife with overweening ambition.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Is this why a parent’s death is so devastating? That of all the witnesses lined up in your life, losing a parent is losing the biggest one, the one who drummed you up out of nowhere and saw you, and saw you, and saw you?”
Source: Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
“Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men?”
Source: Austenland
“Is this why you led me out here to this place?'
'What is this, Princess?'
'To be... inappropriate.'
'And why would I do that?' he asked, his voice dropping low as his hand touched my arm.
'Why? I think it's pretty obvious, Hawke. I'm sitting in your lap. I doubt that's how you normally hold innocent conversations with people.'
'Very rarely is anything I do innocent, Princess.'
'Shocker,' I muttered.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?”
Source: Collected Poems
“Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions?”
“Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.”
“Is this you? if you help someone you feel regret and if you don't you feel guilty. Change this pattern and improve your life, health, and restore your peace.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.”
Source: Ghost Town
“Is this your boat? Or... did it become your boat?”
Source: Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don't Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane
“Is this your first case?' This from the ugliest person Winter had ever seen. His face resembled five pounds of meat loaf molded by an arthritic potter.”
Source: Death Angels
“Is this your girl?" she asks, not waiting for an answer. "She's breathtaking."
"You're my new favorite person," Billie giggles.”
Source: The Dead of Winter
“Is this your holiday homework?" asked Sarah. "Don't do it, Rose! And Eve will write you a note to say it's iniquitous to give eight-year-olds homework. You will, won't you, Eve?"
"I could never spell 'iniquitous,' Sarah darling!"
"Hot concrete," said Rose mournfully, prodding her porridge.
"Write this," ordered Saffron. "'The ancient Egyptians are all dead. Their days are very quiet.' Porridge is meant to look like hot concrete. Eat it up.... Read the next question!"...
"What would you say if you bumped into Tutankhamen in the street?"
"'Sorry!'" said Sarah at once. "Put that."
"We have to answer in proper sentences."
"'Sorry, but it was your fault! You were walking sideways!”
Source: Indigo's Star
“Is Thom Yorke there? Oh he is? Well then how the can I be Thom Yorke, talking to you, right here, on the phone.”
“Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?”
Source: Fool's Errand
“Is to have had and lost/Better than not having at all?”
“Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.”
Source: the bell jar
“Is today a good day to die?”
Source: All the Bright Places
“Is today a good day to die?
Is today the day?
And if not today–when?”
Source: All the Bright Places
“Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”
“Is today your birthday?" That made him smile, the same smile from his early school photos. She found herself thinking, There you are.
"I'm nineteen. And I finally got to meet you in person on this day, of all days. That's a pretty good present." Oh, God, Did she just say that? She made a pained face, which made him laugh.
"I'm glad I could oblige," he said.”
Source: Other Birds
“Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.”
“Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.”
“Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?”
Source: Poems: Third Series
“Is typecasting really a problem?”
“Is Tyson okay?" I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter" is a strange battle cry. "You let him fight?" Stop changing the subject! You realize what you are asking me to do? My palace will be destroyed. "And Olympus might be saved." Do you have any idea how long I've worked on remodeling this palace? The game room alone took six hundred years. "Dad—" Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. "I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?" Oh . . . yes. Good point.”
“Is Tyson okay?' I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.”
“Is tú mo ghrá, Anora,” Niall said, kissing her cheek. “You are my love.”
Source: The Highlander
“Is uniformitarianism necessary?”
Source: Punctuated Equilibrium
“Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.”
“Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.”
“Is 'Vane' Vane's real name?"
Minnie chuckled evilly. "Spencer Archibald- and if you dare call him that to his face, you'll be braver than any other in the 'ton.' Only his mother can still do so with impunity. He's been known as Vane since before he went to Eton. Devil named him- said he always knew which way the wind was blowing and what was in the breeze.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?”
“Is Virgin you trying to fathom me”
Source: Big Sur (Annotated)
“Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“Is virtue something that can be taught?”
“Is Volodymyr Zelensky a puppet of the west?”
“Is vriendschap op zich geen wonder, dat je iemand vindt die de grote, eenzame wereld op de een of andere manier minder eenzaam maakt?”
Source: A Little Life
“Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.”
“Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?”
“Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.”
“Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.”
“Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?”
“Is what happened tonight common?'
'Which part? The marriage proposal or the open-heart surgery?”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserve to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?
I what I did really so much worse than waht anybody else does?
Is it really so much worse than what you do?
Think about it.”
Source: Before I Fall
“Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?
Is it really so much worse than what you do?
Think about it.”
Source: Before I Fall