I Quotes
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“Isn't the person who endlessly shoves Five Guys burgers into her mouth, all the while allowing her muffin top to grow exponentially, the one with the mental health issue?”
Source: The Chic Diet: The Dietary and Psychological Tactics of the Urban Elite
“Isn’t the point of education to teach students how to think, not what to think?”
“Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock?”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't know the truth. But power knows the truth just as well, if not better, than the powerless know the truth. Enron knows what it's doing. We don't have to tell it what it's doing. We have to tell other people what Enron is doing. Similarly, the people who are building the dams know what they're doing. The contractors know how much they're stealing. The bureaucrats know how much they're getting in bribes.
Power knows the truth. There isn't any doubt about that. It is really about telling the story. Good fiction is the truest thing that ever there was. Facts are not necessarily the only truths. Facts can be fiddled with by economists and bankers. There are other kinds of truth. It's about telling the story. As a writer, that's the best thing I can do. It's not just about digging up facts.”
Source: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations With Arundhati Roy
“Isn't there always a history to the story? You think you're living in the present, but the past is right behind you like a shadow.”
Source: The Gap of Time
“Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?”
Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
“Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?”
Source: Les Misérables
“Isn't there some law against torture of prisoners? The Geneva Convention or something?"
"Only if we were at war." He tied the lace on his second boot and leaped up, welcoming the energy sparking in his veins.
'"Some might argue that we are.”
Source: Deception Island
“Isn’t there something I can talk about that won’t remind you that you wish you were dead?’ I asked.
‘No,’ she said.”
Source: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
“Isn’t there something you want to tell me, something filthy and lovely and true”
Source: Which Brings Me to You
“Isn’t this a nice time of night to walk? I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Isn't this exactly why you chose not to contest my claim?"
"Damn straight. I don't have your touch for diplomacy."
Doc barked out a laugh. "If you think Drake's diplomatic, my boy, it's a good thing you're his second. I'd hate to see what you'd consider diplomacy.”
Source: Full Circle
“Isn’t this exciting!”
Source: Inara
“Isn't this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Isn't this the very glue that holds the human world together? Isn't this why we need other people, to give us the pleasure of knowing we are better than they are? Amazingly, even those who seem to be the worst-off take, in their humiliation, a perverse satisfaction in the fact that no one has it worse than they do. Thus they have still, in some sense, won.
Where does this all come from? Asher wonders. Can man not be repaired? If he were a machine, as some now argue, it would suffice to adjust one little lever slightly, or to tighten some small screw, and people would start to take pleasure in treating one another as equals.”
Source: The Books of Jacob
“Isn’t This What Peace Feels Like?
Isn’t life most peaceful when there are no plans, just you and nature? Imagine waking up each day, eating food you’ve made yourself, spending time with animals, surrounded by greenery, watching the sunrise and sunset. Doesn’t that feel like true peace?”
“Isn’t this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting, in shared meals and secrets and silences, with each touch and glance, to be you?”
Source: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
“Isn't this where it is all leading to, anyway? I am simply suggesting we be proactive in taking the next inevitable step here. We've entered a new era of human augmentation, but brain microchips are where you draw the line?”
Source: Chipd
“Isn't unconditional love supposed to work both ways? How can we expect unconditional love for ourselves if we are not willing to grant others the same mercy?”
Source: Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
“Isn't violence a failure of the imagination, after all? And that failure, isn't it stupidity?”
Source: The Book of Chocolate Saints
“Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?”
Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
“Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”
Source: The Alchemist
“Isn't your natural talent or an industry expert to succeed in sales. It's how you explain your failures.”
Source: Get To The Top
“Isn't (life) all about trying?”
“Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.”
Source: Snuff
“Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?”
Source: The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer
“Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.”
“Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?”
“Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?”
“Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.”
Source: Juno and the Paycock: A Tragedy in Three Acts
“Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?”
“Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?”
“Isn't any friendship a love story?”
“Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??”
“Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.”
“Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?”
“Isn't Bunson's training evil geniuses?" "Yes, mostly." "Well, is that wise? Having a mess of seedling evil geniuses falling in love with you willy-nilly? What if they feel spurned?" "Ah, but in the interim, think of the lovely gifts they can make you. Monique bragged that one of her boys made her silver and wood hair sticks as anti-supernatural weapons. With amethyst inlay. And another made her an exploding wicker chicken." "Goodness, what's that for?" Dimity pursed her lips. "Who doesn't want an exploding wicker chicken?”
“Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?”
“Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.”
“Isn't death the boundary we need?”
Source: White Noise
“Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.”
Source: White Noise
“Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?”
“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”
Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume
“Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?”
“Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?”
“Isn't everyone hiding something?”
“Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?”
“Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
“Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?”
“Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.”