I Quotes
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“It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope
“It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.”
Source: Visions of Cody
“It no longer makes sense to speak of "feeding problems" or "sleep problems" or "negative behavior" is if they were distinct categories, but to speak of "problems of development" and to search for the meaning of feeding and sleep disturbances or behavior disorders in the developmental phase which has produced them.”
Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
“It no longer mattered that he had no soul. He’d found his heaven in her arms. (Garrett)”
Source: Stone-Cold Heart
“It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.”
Source: Hyperion
“It no longer shocks me that while I watch a highly intelligent man (like Atty. Nicanor “Nick” De Leon, CPA) speaks the truth, I couldn't help but think how he possesses an ideal trait that is strongly compelled by love. And it inspires a deep sense of awe in me.”
“It no longer shocks me to think that while I watch a highly intelligent man (like Atty. Nicanor “Nick” De Leon, CPA) speaks the truth, I couldn't help but think how he possesses an ideal trait that is strongly compelled by love. And it inspires a deep sense of awe in me.”
“It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.”
“It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place”
“It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.”
Source: Systematic Politics
“It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.”
“It not my salvation she working for. And if she don’t learn she got to face judgment for herself, she won’t even have live.”
Source: The Color Purple
“It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to see our society break down to the extent that that foundational unit of the family that is the hope of survival of this country is diminished to the extent that it literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.”
“It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.”
“It now appears most of us need about 5,000 units a day if we avoid the sun. The government was off by a factor of ten; an ,i>“order-of-magnitude error.”,/i> Mistakes of this scale are rare in medicine.”
Source: Athlete's Edge: Faster, Quicker, Stronger with Vitamin D
“It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.”
“It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about anything - people who tweet, you might call them. I find this so astonishing, my own hubris pales in comparison.”
“It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.”
“It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.”
“It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.”
“IT now makes the impact on almost every aspect of the business; the biggest challenge to business success is IT and IT has to improve people centricity.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the
world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow
themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means.”
“It now remains for those who are absolutely convinced that the ancient Egyptians constructed the pyramids using primitive techniques to build a pyramid themselves, using those same techniques that they propose the Egyptians used. As part of such an attempt, it would help if they cut out just one seventy-ton block of granite from the Aswan quarry, which is located five hundred miles away, using their hardened copper chisels or dolerite balls and then transported the block to the Giza Plateau with their barges, ropes, and manpower. If the proponents of traditional theories of constructing the pyramids are able to accomplish this feat, then we should give serious consideration to their proposals about pyramid construction.”
Source: The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
“It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.”
Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
“It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.”
“It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.”
“It now
seems probable that the Krishna statue was erected at the place which was
revered as the site of the founding Khmer myth: the place where the newly
arrived Indian Brahmin Kaundinya was believed to have met and married
local Mera the naga princess (we will hear more of this myth shortly). By
erecting a major temple there to Lord Krishna, ‘Phnom Da becomes a new
Mount Govardhan, and probably, by extension, the Mekong River becomes
the holy river Yamuna,’ thereby ritually extending the sacred geography of
India to South-east Asia.”
Source: The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
“It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.”
“It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.”
Source: Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew
“It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.”
“It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are ‘real’ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.”
Source: The art of change: strategic therapy and hypnotherapy without trance
“It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.”
“It occured to me that we will never be young again.”
“It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.”
“It occurred to Gavin that the first thought a groom had upon spying his bride shouldn’t be to wonder whether or not she wore knickers.”
Source: The Scot Beds His Wife
“It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.”
Source: Persuasion
“It occurred to her that, in the dead of night, every alive and awake thing could easily become heightened with excitement, craving, and possibility.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange
“It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.”
Source: Raymie Nightingale
“It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges.”
Source: Fates and Furies
“It occurred to her to wonder if this was what growing up meant, to continuously find yourself in situations that you didn't feel remotely prepared to handle.”
Source: Top Ten
“It occurred to him, and had occurred to him before, that there was after all something to be said for dealing with things the way most people of his age seemed to do. It was sensible perhaps to stop noticing, to believe that this was still the same world they were living in, with some dreadful but curable aberrations, never to understand how the whole arrangement had altered.”
Source: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
“It occurred to him that even at night his neighbors might notice a naked demon on his porch”
Source: Corruption
“It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.”
Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych
“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”
Source: Goodnight Mister Tom
“It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else.”
Source: Live by Night
“It occurred to him that what he had taken for a perfect impossibility—that he had not lived his life as one should—might in fact be the truth. It occurred to him that those scarcely detected impulses to struggle against what the people of highest social rank considered good, those feeble tendencies that he barely noticed and immediately suppressed, might in fact be what was real, and everything else what was false.”
Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych