I Quotes
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“It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.”
“It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.”
“It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ... we always have a choice. All of us.”
“It is so much like a movie, Irina can't stand it.”
Source: Broken River
“It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.”
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
Three weeks later Sybil reaffirmed her belief in the existence of her other selves in a letter to Miss Updyke, the school nurse of undergraduate days.”
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“It is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams”
Source: Americana
“It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.”
“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.”
“It is so nice to talk to someone that has a passion for food and family.”
“It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.”
Source: Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings
“It is so odd how we can believe in dreams, but we wake up, and everything collapses. It is far harder to face reality after dreaming of heaven. In my dreams, I have Avery with me.”
Source: The illusion of forever
“It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.”
“It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.”
Source: The Calvary Road
“It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.”
“It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.”
Source: A Woman Talking
“It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.”
“It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.”
“It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.”
“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“It is so pleasant to feel that we have succeeded in doing what all the People who Know told us was impossible.”
Source: Letters from Syria
“It is so pleasant to have Friends near in whom you have perfect confidence and implicit trust! How the hardships and troubles of life are lessened and divided by the aid and services of true friends and also the joys and blessings of life increased and multiplied by having Friends to impart them to and enjoy them with us. I have been wonderfully blessed in the number and character of the dear, kind friends God has raised up around me and I try to feel grateful and thank him daily for so blessing me--and oh if I could feel worthy of them I would be so happy, but they are my friends, nevertheless, and among them all I do not feel that I have any worthier or truer or more generous and kind than you and your highly esteemed wife.
Major Fabricus C. McCalla (1807-1873) to Daniel Brown Pence (1804-1891), Letter dated December 23, 1872”
Source: The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
“It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.”
“It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.”
“It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe.”
Source: The Slippery Slope
“It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.”
“It is so rare to find someone of true understanding; for the most part they judge purely by their own standards and ignore everyone else. So all they see of me is a façade. There are times when I am forced to sit with them and on such occasions I simply ignore their petty criticisms, not because I am particularly shy but because I consider it pointless. As a result, they now look down upon me as a dullard.”
Source: The Diary of Lady Murasaki
“It is so refreshing...
The non transactional nature of true love...
Much like the scent from the first bloomed flower at the onset of spring.”
Source: Waves Aligning
“It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.”
“It is so sad how hatred is a seed we planted in the hearts of kids. We are going to be working for years and years to try and fix this.”
“It is so sad that Africans, we only unite to do bad things. To break the law. To loot. To destroy someone's life or to bring others down. We never unite to fight our oppressors. We never unite to bring solutions. We never unite to support each others business and we never unite to eradicate poverty or problems we have in our society.”
“It is so sad, that poor people are not fighting for solutions , but are fighting the opposition. Every time you try to point them the problem and a solution. They ignore you and chose to ask you on which side are you on . Not knowing that we should be divided to be conquered by the enemy.”
“It is so sad to see. That you are threaten by someone who is living their life, because they are different from you. The fact that you don't understand them. It doesn't mean you should kill them. What have they done to you , that makes you think . They don't deserve to live. They are not the problem, but it is you having problems with them, because of your Insecurities. Every person has a right to live.”
“It is so sad to see. That you are threaten by someone who is living their life, because they are different than you. The fact that you don't understand them. It doesn't mean you should kill them. What have they done to you , That makes you think . They don't deserve to live. They are not the problem, but it is you having problems with them, because of your insecurities.”
“It is so sad to watch criminals fighting each other to run our country in the name of Politics. These people know each other shenanigans. They know who committed which crime , when and where. They are keeping the Information as their secret and bait. Waiting for the day, they are being caught and charged. So, they can play check mate card. To them this Is all a game. To us It Is our lives. Citizens are suffering and dying , because they are putting their hope and trust on this people. Thinking they are representing them and are trying to do good things for them. When one of this politicians is exposed. They are doing everything In their power to distract us. The day we realize we are on our own. Is the day we will take voting seriously.”
“It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.”
Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen
“It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .”
Source: Plays on the Passions
“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a crumbling “love never, ever again”- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ("Another empty room")”
“It is so simple to be difficult.
But so difficult to be simple.”
“It is so simple, to be happy think happiness.”
“It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you and only “you” must tell him or her to leave. This can only be done by you. Otherwise, your silence shouts, “I am undecided.” When other people get involved it sends mixed signals. If only more people would be so bold, hearts would not linger so long.”
“It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.”
“It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.”
“It is so surreal to come into a shop and see pictures of myself everywhere and hear my album playing.”