I Quotes
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“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”
Source: Oracle Night: A Novel
“It always stings a little bit when somebody doesn't like what you put out there, or at least it does for me. I don't take it too much to heart, and it doesn't change anything.”
“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.”
Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
“It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.”
Source: Fire
“It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.”
Source: Saving June
“It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.”
“It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.”
“It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it's more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself.”
“It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.”
“It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?”
“It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.”
“It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.”
Source: The Leadership Challenge
“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.”
Source: The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
“It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.”
“It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.”
“It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.”
“It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”
Source: Heart of the Matter: A Novel
“It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it comes down to that moment, that performance. The goal isn't just to improve yourself, but to transport people.”
“It always took my breath away,’ he said, ‘that the five of us could have found one another–against such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up… Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they’re for you; that’s your life, your future, fidgeting in that line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don’t miss it.”
Source: The Likeness
“It always works, every time; despite the faith, love, morality, and honor we acquire so painfully in our lifelong struggle for self betterment, in moments of crisis what triumphs is a blind instinct for self preservation. In this respect, we humans are worse than animals, who defend their pack until torn to bits.”
Source: The Widow Killer
“It always worries me when I'm in a relationship with a woman I cannot idolize. Something in me just doesn't feel right.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“It amazed her, how once the unfamiliar became well-known you could never go back.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“It amazed him how this woman could turn something as simple as breakfast into an act of foreplay.”
Source: Winter's Thrall
“It amazed me how a diverse perspective utterly changed the meaning of every significant event in the world.”
Source: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
“It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.”
Source: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangled noise.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“It amazes him how much money rich people seem happy to waste on entertainment for one mere evening.”
Source: Pandora
“It amazes me how as beings in an unpredictable world, how we glorify our brothers falling.”
“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.”
“It amazes me how little common curtesy people can show when their tested.”
“It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.”
Source: Questioning Chemotherapy
“It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.”
“It amazes me how people can close their minds off to the size of the Universe. With billions of stars, millions of galaxies, and possibly a googol of planets, how can it be that human beings are the only thinking animal in creation?”
Source: Strange Tales of Floyd County, VA
“It amazes me how well the majority of jump jockeys ride in a race until they've landed over the last, then how badly most of them ride a finish. Apart from a half-dozen, they look like coster boys sitting on top of donkeys' behinds, bashing about with shillelaghs.”
“It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.”
“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.”
“It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.”
“It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.”
“It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world.”
“it amazes me that somebody could escape from a courthouse and then go to jail, and be allowed to escape again. when you think about the responsibilities of a jail, right, if we use an analogy and we think about a for profit business. you can see people from that business sitting around... well we need to increase sales, we need to decrease costs. if you're in a meeting in a jail, you would think they would talk about people not escaping. that seems to be really a central concept to what a jail does...”
“It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?”
Source: Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)
“It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.”
“It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you feel the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love. How is this world made which you enjoy, the friends around me that you love? They came because I first gave away my stories.”
“It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.”
“It amazes me to think that the stars and the sky go on forever. I can't picture anything that has no end. Seems to me there's got to be an edge somewhere.”
Source: Nothing to Fear
“It amazes me to this day to think about women in the workplace who spend more time trying to damage other women’s images or opportunities than they do on improving their own abilities.”
Source: Reham Khan
“It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.”
“It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.”
“It amazes me when education, religion and family values fail to create a human being.”