I Quotes
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“It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.”
“It is still relevant today to project a confident image through good body posture.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.”
“It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.”
Source: Studs Terkel's Chicago
“It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.”
“It is still true. Although, there is one small change now,” I waited for his grant revelation without meeting his eyes. “We have to be your number one priority, always.”
Source: Keeping Her Toy
“It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.”
“It is still true that the life we have created for ourselves on this earth is not working. Not one of the systems we have put into place in our world is functional - not the political, not the economical, not the ecological, not the educational, not the social, and not the spiritual. None of them are producing the outcomes we say we want. In fact, it's worse. They are producing the outcomes we say we don't want.”
“It is still unclear exactly what inspired such brutality. Many point to the influence of the Guatemalan Kaibiles working in the Zetas. In the Guatemalan civil war, troops cut off heads of captured rebels in front of villagers to terrify them from joining a leftist insurgency. Turning into mercenaries in Mexico, the Kaibiles might have reprised their trusted tactic to terrify enemies of the cartel. Others point to the influence of Al Qaeda decapitation videos from the Middle East, which were shown in full on some Mexican TV channels. Some anthropologists even point to the pre-Colombian use of beheadings and the way Mayans used them to show complete domination of their enemies.
The Zetas were not thinking like gangsters, but like a paramilitary group controlling territory. Their new way of fighting rapidly spread through the Mexican Drug War. In September the same year, La Familia gang—working with the Zetas in Michoacán state—rolled five human heads onto a disco dance floor. By the end of 2006, there had been dozens of decapitations. Over the next years, there were hundreds.
Gangsters throughout Mexico also copied the Zetas’ paramilitary way of organizing. Sinaloans created their own cells of combatants with heavy weaponry and combat fatigues. They had to fight fire with fire. “The Beard” Beltrán Leyva led particularly well-armed death squads. One was later busted in a residential house in Mexico City. They had twenty automatic rifles, ten pistols, twelve M4 grenade launchers, and flak jackets that even had their own logo— FEDA—an acronym for Fuerzas Especiales de Arturo, or Arturo’s Special Forces.”
Source: El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who I believe are like me are those who have never found the professional skin to fit the riot in their souls .”
Source: What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim
“It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.”
“It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.”
“It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.”
“It is strange and cold. I can feel it through the box" said Miss Flower and she cried, "No one will understand us or know what we want. Oh no one will understand us again!"
But Miss Happiness was more hopeful and more brave. "I think they will,"she said.
"How will they?"
"Because there will be some little girl who is clever and kind."
"Will there be?" said Miss Flower longingly.
"Yes."
"Why will there be?"
"Because there always has been," said Miss Happiness.”
Source: Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
“It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.”
“It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.'
'Yet, enter it you must,' Gwydion answered, 'for it is a destiny laid on each of us. True, you have seen these things. But there are equal parts of love and joy.”
Source: The Black Cauldron
“It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.”
“It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.”
Source: The Gift
“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think the emerald is more beautiful than any of them.”
Source: Middlemarch
“It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.”
Source: Middlemarch
“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
“It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.”
“It is strange how governments can legalize mass murder by calling it ‘war’.”
“It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.”
Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“It is strange how intricately life hangs in the scales, and how unrelated events and single decisions alter the outcomes. Some remote land ten thousand miles from me, some land unfamiliar to me, held the key to my future.”
Source: Torn From the Inside Out
“It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all; come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.”
“It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“It is strange how love and pain can go hand-in-hand.”
Source: Zymzym
“It is strange how many government departments claim to have money shortages, but there is never a shortage of funds for wars.”
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.”
Source: Flame and Shadow
“It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.”
“It is strange how people seem to belong to places - especially to places where they were not born...”
Source: Goodbye to Berlin
“It is strange how police officers can legalize assaults and murders by calling them ‘use of force’.”
“It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?”
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Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“It is strange how someone can know exactly how to hurt you the most and at the same time seemingly be completely unaware of what they are doing.”
“it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams”
Source: The Waves
“It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.”
“It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.”
Source: Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal
“It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.”
Source: Ascending
“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion
“It is strange, how time changes people, but it didn't change me, at all.”
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
Source: Atlantia
“It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.”
“It is strange how your opinion of yourself can be influenced by what others think of you”
Source: An Indian Pilgrim
“It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.”
“It is strange, is it not, how an accident of a millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important. Think about it Elliot, She has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, just like everyone else. It,s all in tiny degrees of placement, such small area of magic to make such a big difference. For me, Elliot, I must tell you it is a hard thing to understand- why these things, these millimeters, are so crucial to you, you of all men.”
Source: Scruples