I Quotes
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“It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?”
Source: Brave
“It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.”
“It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble.”
Source: Unnatural Death
“It doesn't do to look too envious of other women. Men are already quite vain enough thinking we fight each other like cats for their attention, aren't they? - Giulia Farnese”
Source: The Serpent and the Pearl
“It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“It doesn’t drive me mad. It makes me mad.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fever
“It doesn’t even—” one word “hurt ” was supposed to come out of my mouth. Instead, a string of obscenities to make a lifelong sailor proud shoot out.
“What thefuck are you doing? Shit! You don’t pour it on like that, you fucking jackhole! Fuck!”
I’m seething in pain, the sting agonizing. Ashton isn’t paying any heed, turning my hand this way and that to examine it closer.
“Looks clean.”
“Yeah, because you just bleached the shit out of it!”
“Relax. It’ll stop stinging soon. Distract yourself by staring at me while we wait for this to settle down. That’s how you got yourself into this mess to begin with . . .”
“It doesn’t ever change. Does the sun not set in your dreams?”
Eena grinned at his profile, remembering the first time Ian had noticed the same peculiarity. “No. It never sets.” She watched his brow wrinkle as he wondered at the view.
“What good is a stagnant sunset?”
Eena looked at the auburn lights. The question made her think for a moment. “Well, it’s always exactly what I want it to be, right between day and night.”
“But I thought the beauty of a sunset was watching it change, marveling at the shift in colors as they intensify and then eventually fade.”
“All that leaves you with is darkness,” she muttered.
He turned to look at her. “You’re afraid of the dark?”
She shook her head. “I’m afraid of what happens in the dark.”
A look of concern questioned her meaning.
“Nightmares,” she explained. “And solitude. And loneliness. The dark is where monsters come to life and people feel the need to leave you. Life is never secure in the dark. You never see things clearly in the dark.”
Source: Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul
“It doesn't exactly fill me with pride."
"For what, being a white man?"
"For being a carbon based life-form.”
Source: The Dragon Factory
“It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“It doesn't feel that way to me. I think... Well, I think that maybe... you're dying to be human." There was almost a smile in her thought as she heard the silly double meaning to the phrase. "After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.”
Source: The Host
“It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. It's as natural and desirable as -- syphilis...”
Source: The Holy Terror
“It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.”
Source: DUNE
“It doesn't get better by overthinking, it only gets better by working towards eradicating your problems.”
“It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same.”
Source: Pushing the Limits
“It doesn’t get much greener than essential oils: when used correctly, they are among Mother Nature’s most potent remedies.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
Source: The Velveteen Rabbit & Other Stories
“It doesn't have to be a bad day, it can just be a bad moment.”
Source: Within These Four Walls
“It doesn’t have to be black and white. You have a structured workout and sure that makes your life easier. You have a template to follow. But if you don’t have 45 minutes to do that workout, you can do 10 minutes of it. If you don’t have time to train, you can take your dog for a walk. There’s so many ways you can make these incremental changes that will lead to overall better habits.”
Source: Strong Curves: A Woman's Guide to Building a Better Butt and Body
“It doesn't have to be 'just right' Just Now...JUST WRITE!”
“It doesn't have to be that way. Belief can be powerful and intimate and transformative."
Anne shook her head. "Religion is the opiate of the masses," she said, and I shot her a killing look.
"Opioids are the opiates of the masses," I said.”
Source: Transcendent Kingdom
“it doesn’t have to be this way
we’re better animals than all
yet we slay our own kind
acting like the worst of all
with selfish ways
all you know is to take and take
your greed is limitless
as huge as your ego and pride
how much more will you steal
until you've drained the last of our pleas?”
“It doesn’t have to end; you know that, right?”
“I know,” I responded, then added, “I’m not sure how comfortable I feel with you getting close to me so soon and suddenly... I’m also partial to sparing you the heartache I’ll no doubt bring you.”
Source: Parasite
“It doesn't help that I'm famous for a thing I started when I was a kid. I think of what it would be like if everyone was famous for a thing they did when they were thirteen: their middle school band, their seventh grade science project, their eighth-grade play. The middle school years are the years to stumble, fall, and tuck under the rug as soon as you're done with them because you've already outgrown them by the time you're fifteen.”
Source: I'm Glad My Mom Died
“It doesn't help that the morning light does nothing to make him look less forbidding. I'm getting the feeling this man walks around with a little bit of midnight in his pocket.”
Source: Neon Gods
“It doesn't help to whine about the obvious, when the candle of love is burning low. What is needed is that you burn your heart, and make a pyre out of its sacrificial glow”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“It doesn't hurt if I don't know the truth, what hurts is that I know is not the truth.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”
“It doesn’t knock.
Doesn’t bloom like it used to.
Just shows up
in the way someone remembers how you take your tea.
In a song that doesn’t ache anymore.
It slips between the cracks of the day
in the quiet of forgotten habits,
in hands that don’t flinch when reaching for yours.
Love returns slowly.
In mismatched mugs,
and the softness of being asked if you’ve slept.
In laughter that feels like rinsed linen
clean, familiar, light.
It’s a slow thing,
like the light that finds its way through closed blinds.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“It doesn't look like a sorceress castle", said Roland.
"I was expecting something more sinister. You know, a round store tower with a single gleaming red window. This place makes me think of hot chocolate and gingerbread."
"maybe this is just his vacation home", said Terry.”
Source: A Fate Worse Than Dragons
“It doesn't make any sense the way we make life tougher for each other in this world.”
Source: WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT?
“It doesn't make sense to hire good people and tell them what to do; we hire good people so they can tell us what to do.”
“It doesn’t make sense until you make sense of it.”
“It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure.
There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back.”
Source: Ego Is the Enemy
“It doesn't matter anyway, we all bleed the same.”
Source: Strangers Everywhere
“It doesn’t matter even if you finish a race in last place. Doing your best is what matters. Focus on that, and you will become the best you can become.”
“it doesn't matter for you to work harder. but, it does matter for you to make yourself more happier. you deserve to be lazy sometimes, travel to your favorite place, eat your favorite food, drink your coffee and think "i am the one who has to be happy first”
“It doesn't matter", he murmured against my skin. His fingers traced the cuts, healing the veins beneath them. "There's only one thing that does."
"What?" I whispered.
He looked at me through his long,, dark lashes, with my hands still in his. "Killing Jude.”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“It doesn't matter," he said, staring at the wall, at the cracking plaster, the waterstain that looked like a giant feeding spider. "Nothing does. We all strive to say something—as if it's important. As if there can be some lasting value . . . And yet we all know mankind is doomed to nothingness. Immortality." He laughed bitterly. "There's no such thing. There's no meaning to anything. We get up in the morning, we push through the day, we go to sleep. Day after day. Endlessness. Meaninglessness.”
Source: The Portrait
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is ... If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.”
“It doesn't matter how busy life's been, how long the five of us have gone without seeing one another: meeting at the cottage is like pulling on a favourite sweatshirt, worn to perfection.
Time doesn't move the same way when we're there. Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another.
Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.
You belong here.”
Source: Happy Place
“It doesn't matter how cynical I think I am. I'm always delighted to find out that things in this life still have the capacity to surprise me.”
Source: Based on a True Story: A Memoir
“It doesn't matter how fast you can run when your time has run out.”
“It doesn't matter how fat I get, my online avatars are unchanging.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“It doesn’t matter how great your product is, If your customer service is poor, people will complain about it, and you’ll lose customers.”
Source: Happy Customers
“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.”
Source: Compulsion
“It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.”
“It doesn’t matter how hard the world tries to get the sons of God, everything is turned around for their good”
“It doesn’t matter how hard we struggle to achieve in the materialistic life; nothing on this Earth exists permanently”
Source: Enter Heaven
“It doesn't' matter how hard your life is, was, or will be just don't give up”