I Quotes
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“It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty days to create its personality and plan its launching. If I do my job well, I shall contribute as much as the hundred scientists to the success of this product.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“It has taken my whole life thus far to see how being brave enough to hold on to a question, brave enough to never stop looking for answers, and brave enough to take action even when I didn’t know the right answer, was as brave as I needed to be to succeed and to succeed with love.”
Source: Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
“It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.”
“It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.”
“It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.”
“It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.”
“It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.”
“IT has the potential to become a creative business problem solver because it is in a unique position to connect cross-functional dots.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a glass bowl. ... When the bowl was heated over a spirit lamp, an extremely violent explosion occurred, which shattered it into small fragments. On another occasion a drop was heated in a test-tube, and exploded with such violence that the glass splinters cut deep into my face and hands, and hurt other people who were standing some distance off in the room.”
“It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo ...
“It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.”
Source: The Philosophy of Nietzsche
“It has to be a…”
He wanted to say a coincidence, but he couldn’t make himself believe that. Over the past few years he’d seen a lot of things: destiny, prophecy, magic, monsters, fate. But he’d never yet run across a coincidence.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.”
“It has to be absolutely believable. It's also going between images and scenes with nudity and sexuality that would be seen, in conventional terms, as kind of sexually exciting. It's up against things that are much more medical and gynecological, and notoriously we, as a culture and a society, have some issues with that kind of thing.”
“It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.”
Source: Hanoi
“It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.”
“It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it, he enjoyed the attention and sympathy that it created among attractive young women like Evanlyn and Alyss. And he liked the fact that Will tended to walk on eggshells around him when the problem was mentioned. Keeping Will off balance was always desirable. ~Halt”
“It has to be alchemy. Because chemistry? That’s just science stripped of any magic.”
Source: Fragments
“It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in the Second World War, when lots of people were doing things that, outside of a war, you wouldn't do, like killing and dropping bombs. She's doing things that one wouldn't approve of, but it's war.”
“It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.”
“It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.”
“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.”
Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.”
“It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.”
“It has to be now,” he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. “After all, you can’t allow me to go around like this all day.” “From what I’ve learned so far, this is your natural condition,” came her pert reply.”
“It has to be okay for a child not to be an alpha male or queen bee–otherwise almost everyone is doomed to misery. Set your sights a little lower and look to see if your child has the basics covered. Watch your child with a friend. Are they happy to see one another? Do they engage in reciprocal play? Do they take each other’s feelings into account? Can they resolve conflict without help? Do they have more peaceful time than fighting time? If your child can do these things at least some of the time, you can relax.”
Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.”
“It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.”
“It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.”
“It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.”
“It has to be very tight to seem loose.”
“It has to be written, if only to lock away the real key to the story in a single page, and remove that page once the book is finished, so that no one will know what it is all about - as ever, the perfect crime. However, it must be possible for that page to be reconstituted without its secret being revealed, and this dispersal is the very mainspring of theoretical fiction.”
Source: Fragments
“It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command.”
“It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.”
“It has to do with me because it has to do with you," Young says, his voice dropping. "Jaewon-ah, we've been friends longer than we've been--."
"Enemies?" I suggest weakly.
"Than we've been lost.”
Source: Rebel Seoul
“It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).”
“It has to do with the incredibly dangerous place that this world is gonna be as a result of a deal in which we got nothing. We didn't even get four hostages out. We got nothing, and Iran gets everything they want.”
“It has to get ugly before it gets pretty!”
“It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.”
“IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“It has to start from the inside. I've been juicing like crazy, vegetable juice all day long - instead of drinking coffee. I love green juice, and it's amazing how much more energy I have, my skin looks better. Cleansing and moisturizing every morning and night is also really important, but you can't just depend on your creams. I have to do more for the inside so it shows on the outside.”
“It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?”
“It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]”
“It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.”
Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements
“It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.”
“It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.”
Source: Belloc: A Biographical Anthology
“It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.”
“It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.”