I Quotes
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“It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.”
Source: The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering
“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
“It always comes down to what the crowd buys coming out of your mouth, which differs from one comic to the next.”
“It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.”
“It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.”
“It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.”
“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me: my study is so full of it now, that there is hardly an inch of room for any more. I shall have to throw out a wing soon.
And I am careful of my work, too. Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn’t a finger-mark on it. I take a great pride in my work; I take it down now and then and dust it. No man keeps his work in a better state of preservation than I do.
But, though I crave for work, I still like to be fair. I do not ask for more than my proper share.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. (Chapter XV)”
“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
“It always fascinates me how you can get so much joy listening to another person, when me, personally, I can only listen to myself and my music these days. I've got some people in my iPod, but I only listen to myself. I'm folding into myself and I used to think that that was what you're supposed to do - you're supposed to reject everyone else and figure out who you are. You get little shards and points of reference, but that's how you confirm that only you know what is right for you. Everything else is pollution. What's starting to happen to me is sort of an identity crisis.”
“It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.”
“It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.”
“It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.”
“It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.”
“It always feels like death. At least at first. Your muscles stretch and burn until they might rip. The bones in your hips threaten to rotate right out of their sockets. Your spine lengthens and twists into impossible shapes. The veins in your arms swell, blood pulsing through them. Your fingers tremble as you try to hold them taut but graceful, just so. Your toes jam into a pretty pink box, battering your feet with constellations of blisters and bruises. But it all looks effortless and beautiful. I hope. Because that's all that really matters.”
Source: Tiny Pretty Things
“It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.”
“It always felt like I had to be a realist.”
“It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.”
“It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.”
“It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there's a Mexican.”
“It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.”
“It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?”
Source: The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)
“It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.”
Source: Faithful Jenny Dove: And Other Illusions
“It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ... I feel like a recharged battery, confident that our country can look forward to great things.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
“It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“It always happens. Always. Little by little, something inside me comes to the surface and drives everyone away.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it off, roll with it. For me, I just find it disgusting.”
“It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.”
“It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generation. "Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that. And for the same thing sighed the early prophets and the philosophers of ancient Greece. From all accounts, the world has been getting worse and worse ever since it was created. All I can say is that it must have been a remarkably delightful place when it was first opened to the public, for it is very pleasant even now if you only keep as much as possible in the sunshine and take the rain good-temperedly.”
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to”
“It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.”
“It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.”
Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.”
“It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.”
Source: Seriously ... I'm Kidding
“It always hurts a little, to leave the darkness, for in shadows lies a certain safety”
Source: Foxheart
“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“It always hurts the gringo more to lose his money than his life.”
Source: Zoot Suit and Other Plays
“It always hurts when you lose a secret.”
Source: The Testament
“It always impressed me how predictable Reva was—she was like a character in a movie. Every emotional gesture was always right on cue.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.”
“It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.”
“It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.”
“It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...”
Source: Shiloh Autumn
“It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a flower to the sun. And one thing sure. I knew that just like I could smile to see Pinky, she sure could smile to see me.”
Source: A Day No Pigs Would Die
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”
“It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.”
Source: The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches
“It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.”
“It always made me wonder. What other stories are out there? What if some are true? What if we’ve burned too many books?”
Source: Shield of Sparrows