I Quotes
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“It must be part of the inescapable human condition--each person ultimately deaf, impervious to other people's emotions, incapable of deciphering gestures, looks, or silences, all condemned to give painful explanations with words that are never the right ones.”
Source: Fata care citea în metrou
“it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.”
Source: Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual
“It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.”
Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.”
“It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!”
“It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.”
“It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us so superior.”
“It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.”
“It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.”
“It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.”
“It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society”
“It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.”
“It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.”
“It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both.”
“It must be remembered that some groups will ignore any constitutional provision in their aim to establish themselves as new dictators. Therefore, a permanent role will exist for the population to apply political defiance and noncooperation against would-be dictators and to preserve democratic structures, rights, and procedures.”
Source: From Dictatorship to Democracy
“It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.”
“It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession.”
“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.”
“It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.”
Source: Mrs. Falchion
“It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.”
“It must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. It may make man better able to endure evil, but the evil remains.”
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“It must be sad to outlive aught we love.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
“It must be said here, however, that among the activities that all LTTE members, both men and women, enjoyed most was reminiscing about events of the past. Watching them enjoying such conversations, one would think that they were the happiest people on earth because the interactions would be filled with laughter. They would discuss dead comrades, past battles, instances of near capture by the Lankan Military, receiving punishment from superiors, etc. But all of these subjects were discussed with a sense of humor. One SLMM member, who had noticed this without being able to understand the language, once commented that for a set of liberation fighters they did spend an awful lot of time talking and laughing. All of them indeed carried with them a great deal of painful memories and this, it seemed, was their therapy”
Source: A Fleeting Moment in My Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State
“It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.”
“It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.”
“It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.”
“It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.”
Source: Infinite Thought
“It must be scary to stand up for beliefs also held by Eric Holder.”
“It must be September,
July sun has disappeared”
“It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.”
“It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.”
“It must be so hard for guys in relationships - to have just one girlfriend completely devoted to taking care of all your whole-grain needs. I can see how at the first opportunity you'd just have to get out there and - sow.”
“It must be so sad watching yourself become someone who is wound up and stressed out all the time. I don't think there's any way of avoiding it.' 'Not having children?' 'Yes', I said. 'That's true.”
Source: Ghosts
“It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!”
“It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!”
“It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed and unscrewed me from my large, rectangular oxygen concentrator, which I called Philip, because it just kind of looked like a Philip.”
“It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She asked out of nowhere. "By 'it' do you mean herpes?" "You are too much," Mom said, "The book, Hazel. I mean the book.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea of what's normal. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to society. It's unimaginable! No question about what you do with your orgasms. No question about the quality of your feelings and thoughts and perceptions. And then what about the society you're supposed to be adjusted to? Is it a mad society or a sane one? And even if it's pretty sane, is it right that anybody should be completely adjusted to it?”
Source: Island
“It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems to me greater still to discover fundamental truths in a very modest room with very modest means - truths that will still be foundations of human knowledge when the memory of these battles is painstakingly preserved only in the archives of the historian.”
“It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species of primate, a biological phenomenon dominated by biological rules, like any other species. Human nature is no more than one particular kind of animal nature. Agreed, the human species is an extraordinary animal; but all other species are also extraordinary animals, each in their own way, and the scientific man-watcher can bring many fresh insights to the study of human affairs if he can retain this basic attitude of evolutionary humility.”
Source: Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior
“It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.”
Source: The Business of Life
“It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.”
“It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-”
“It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.”
Source: Dreamtigers
“It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)”
“It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.”
“It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.”
Source: Cakes and Ale
“It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself