I Quotes
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“It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.”
“It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.”
“It needs strength to stay silent, but it needs courage to confide in somebody.”
“It needs to be emphasized, however, that the ability of fantasy to achieve a sense of reality is not an indication that the traumatic abuses
recalled by patients with multiple personality disorder are fabricated or made-up. What is important to recognize is that the fantasy elaborations that are connected with dissociated states in these patients are efforts at restitution and represent attempts at mastering traumatic experiences through the use of imaginative solutions. This paper is examining the use of fantasy as it participates in the formation of the clinical picture of multiple personality disorder and is not intending to cast doubt on its traumatic origin.”
“It needs to be emphasized that directees are real people, and as such they are just as varied, just as ambivalent, just as attractive and unattractive as are, for example, directors themselves. Real people can be scintillating, and they can be boring, often within the same hour. They can be banal, and they can be inspired. They can be concerned about momentous and serious issues and about trivia. They can be sunny, and they can be gloomy. In their prayer life they will show all these dispositions and more. Spiritual directors who want to foster a relationship between such people and their God need to have a "surplus of warmth".”
Source: The Practice of Spiritual Direction
“It needs to be in person.” I can’t take this tension between us anymore. Avoiding him is only making this worse, and I hate feeling like I’m hiding. With Libby, the way to get to the heart of things might be a slow, cautious obstacle course, but this is Charlie, and Charlie’s like me. We need to bulldoze through the awkwardness. I miss him. His teasing, his challenges, his competitiveness, his care for my overpriced shoes, his smell, and—
Shit, I didn’t expect the list to be so long. I’m in deeper than I realized.”
Source: Book Lovers
“IT needs to be running in a proactive digital mode, rather than in a reactive industrial mode.”
Source: CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
“It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).”
Source: Openly Straight
“IT needs to be the super-glue to bridge business silos and enable holistic decision-making.”
Source: CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
“It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.”
“It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.”
“It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!”
“IT needs to transform from a big fat silo to the digital fit brain of a modern organization.”
Source: CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
“It needs tremendous courage, patience, and trust to believe that one can find without effort, that one can attain without attaining, that one can arrive without stepping out of one’s house.”
Source: Krishna: The Man and his Philosophy
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and its potential damage to the quality of human life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul might well be called the 'Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.' Its more conventional name, of course, is dehumanization.”
Source: The Dehumanization of Man
“It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed.”
Source: What Is Religion? And Other New Articles and Letters
“It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.”
“It never came down to two roads at all,
or if it did, I took the one less traveled by
for a driveway, or the entrance to a mall,
or it slipped past like a station off the air
while I bent down to fiddle with the dial.”
Source: By the Numbers
“It never came out of [Donald Trump] mouth. He was never like, "Oh, I'm not going to do well among women," or, "I really want to - this would be so kind of cool and new."”
“It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence.”
Source: Too Loud a Solitude
“It never ceased to surprise him how many of her dishes were cooked without meat. Her pasta sauces often consisted of just one or two ingredients, such as garlic and oil, or grated lemon zest and cream. Many more were based on a vegetable, with peperone, anchovy or cheese providing a subtle kick. Often it didn't occur to him that he hadn't eaten meat until after the meal was over. His very favorite dish was her melanzane alla parmigiana, but it was only as his palate became more trained that he realized this, too, contained nothing more substantial than dense chunks of eggplant. As for gravy, he had never missed it once.
He mentioned this to her, and she laughed. "We've never had a lot of meat to spare in Campania. Even before the war, it was expensive. So we had to learn to use our ingenuity.”
Source: The Wedding Officer
“It never ceases to amaze me,” [Chrestomanci] said, “the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.”
Source: Witch Week
“It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.”
“It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.”
“It never ceases to amaze me how many people think I kill for fun.”
“Don’t you?”
“Well, not just for fun.”
Source: Death's Mistress
“It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking rocket science. These must be the same people who hate Picasso, because he couldn't keep the paint inside the lines and the colors never matched the numbers.”
“It never ceases to amaze me that companies will spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars teaching people 'how to sell,' and not one minute or not $10 on 'why they buy.' And 'why they buy' is all that matters.”
“It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid”
“It never ceases to amaze me that people can get pregnant just by having sex.”
Source: Spent: A Comic Novel
“It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.”
“It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.”
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.”
Source: Fast Facts® on False Teachings
“It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.”
“It never changes, he says. The other group he brought here, it ended this same way.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the
stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
Source: Haunted
“It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.”
“It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.”
Source: Love: A Holy Command
“It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.”
“It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.”
“It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?”
Source: Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
“It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.”
Source: On War Against the Turk
“It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.”
“It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.”
“It never ends, the bruise
of being”
Source: Book of Hours: Poems
“It never ends. The pain is always with you. Maybe that is the worst part.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.”
“It never failed to amaze her, the sudden sharpness of that pain as it stabbed through the cotton batting of time. A part of her wished fervently it would dull, and another part of her hoped that it never would. The endless cycle of guilt: the need to escape it and the equally desperate need to cling to it.”
Source: Ashes to Ashes
“It never failed to amaze me, even after all these centuries, that the elements cared not for human pain. That the sky and the stars paid no heed to the obliterated corpses below. That the birds still sang each morning, no matter how many men had fallen the night before. Sometimes that sense of insignificance was a comfort. But here, languishing in a rotten maze carved into the ruined earth, I felt nothing but despair.
How simple and beautiful life could have been. How far that humanity had strayed.”
Source: Our Infinite Fates
“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.”
Source: Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel