I Quotes
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“It is always at this time, just before he slips into unconsciousness, when the voice comes to him: not as loud and snide and insistent as it once was, but still there, still hounding him from behind, still trying to drive him stumbling forward. Is this the best you can do?
Tonight, for the first time in many, many years, Philip chooses not to ignore it: he answers. It is. It really is.
Then say it, and shout down the darkness.
'It is," Philip whispers between clenched teeth as Alicia mumbles and stirs in her slumber. 'It is!”
Source: Version Control
“It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.”
“It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.”
Source: Beowulf
“It is always better to avoid hyped stocks and desire to double your money in no time.”
“It is always better to be a bookworm rather than being a dung-beetle!”
“It is always better to be an original than an imitation.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”
“It is always better to do the right thing.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that... Magnus.”
“It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it.”
“It is always better to look at the bright side of life.”
“It is always better to make your own mistakes and not someone else's.”
“It is always better to say, to do / Since a mistake can be forgiven / A wasted chance is never recovered”
Source: The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems
“It is always better to say too little than too much.”
“It is always better to write your feeling in GRAPHITE than in INK,
As it’s much easier to erase them and start fresh as life does not give the freedom to do so….
In INK it takes time to fade away as life does….”
“It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs.”
“It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.”
“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“It is always changing and accepting this will help us to adapt better. In the future, our technology will help us to communicate even better than we do now, travel faster and advance us in ways that we never knew could exist. If we anticipate this now, we can hit the ground running when this takes place and have an action plan ready to go.”
Source: Take Massive Action: Toward Your Dreams
“It is always character first and story second.”
“It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.”
“It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“It is always consoling to think of suicide;
it's what gets one through many a bad night.”
Source: Dark Places
“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
“It is always controversial when it comes to women with strong character at the workplace!”
“It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.”
“It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.”
Source: Places & Persons
“It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.”
“It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.”
“It is always darkest before the dawn.”
Source: The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle
“It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.”
“It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.”
“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”
Source: The Galantrys
“It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.”
“it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.”
Source: A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel
“It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.”
Source: Under Heaven
“It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.”
Source: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends
“It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team.”
“It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.”
“It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“It is always dullest before the yawn.”
“It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.”
“It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.”
Source: The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories
“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”
Source: Writings: The light of day
“It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.”
“It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.”
Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust
“It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.”
Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate