I Quotes
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“It makes sense to pay heed to our past even though the demands we place on our bodies (and minds) are now vastly different. We are still in the midst of the course correction that's happening all around us, but we don't see it. We do notice it when things screw up the process. Illnesses can be considered evolutionary misfires if they do not meet the criteria of Darwin's rules regarding genetic principles that usually lead to extinction.”
Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.”
“It makes sense, why would I save my beloved humanity who ousted me in the first place from this society?”
“It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.”
“It makes the ocean seem inconsequential, the moon unimportant, everything else nonexistent.
It fills all the empty spaces inside him, the ones he didn't know were there, and the ones he thought he'd already filled. And the future is laid plain before him. Their future.”
Source: Legacy Lost
“It makes the other one more precious and also not enough. We have to try to fill not only our own boots but other people's too - yours, Leo's, Dad's. We have to expand at the moment we feel the most shrunk.”
Source: Sister
“It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.”
“It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there is in many women a 'hungry' one inside. But rather than hungry to be a certain size, shape, or height, rather than hungry to fit the stereotype; women are hungry for basic regard from the culture surrounding them. The 'hungry' one inside is longing to be treated respectfully, to be accepted and in the very least, to be met without stereotyping.”
“It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.”
“It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.”
“It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.”
Source: Black Heart
“It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!”
“It makes you crazy, for something you know to be true, know from the very core or root of you, to remain unspeakable.”
Source: What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life
“It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.”
“It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.”
“It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.”
“It makes you feel really comfortable when someone is like, I'm not going to touch what you're doing. Do what you do and I'll put it out, but as opposed to sticking it out in Dublin and in one shop in London, it's going to go all over the world and you'll have the backing of a PR team and whatever else you need. It was like, cool, that sounds like the right move.”
“It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more
“It makes you look like Audrey Hepburn. If she'd been a surfer."
"I don't surf."
"Neither did Audrey Hepburn,”
Source: Words in Deep Blue
“It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child”
“It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only we’ve got Cover Girl and Victoria’s Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom’s Half-Yearly Sale.”
Source: Nature of Jade
“It makes you realize that people are the same wherever you go.”
“It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
“It makes your buttocks ache walking on flat ground all the time.”
Source: A Tabernacle for the Sun
“It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.”
“It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.”
“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”
“It matter's not how many times you fall, but the will to rise again any time you fall, to keep pushing forward.”
“It mattered nothing to me that someone was Christian or whatever else. It wasn't important what name a man gave Heaven, for the names were many, and many too the altars and shrines, rituals and prayers.”
Source: The Sunset Emperor
“It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.”
“It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.”
“It matters if you don't just give up.”
“It matters in a fatherly way.”
“It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.”
Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
“It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.”
“It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.”
“It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?”
“It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn’t take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied partner to start to feel love-starved and sadly unfulfilled. If you want great sex in the bedroom, show love to each other outside the bedroom.”
Source: The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
“It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go”
“It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“It matters more how one gives than what one gives”
“It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.”
“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.”
“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”