I Quotes
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“It reminds me of that saying: "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." I guess that means we're just products of whoever made us us and we don't have much control. The thing is, when people use that phrase, they ignore the most critical part: the falling. Within the logic of that saying, the apple falls every single time. Not falling isn't an option. So, if the apple has to fall, the most important question in my mind is what happens to it upon hitting the ground? Does it touch down with barely a scratch? Or does it smash on impact? Two vastly different fates. When you think about it, who cares about its proximity to the tree or what type of tree spawned it? What really makes all the difference, then, is how we land.”
Source: Dear Evan Hansen
“It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other.”
“It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.”
“It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned.”
“It reminds me that we're all fighting here, even as we smile and study and behave like good little girls. Like Juliet. We're all fighting to control our own destinies. Even if it ends in tragedy.”
Source: The Professor
“It reminds me what Uma Thurman once said about actors improvising: "What most actors call improvising is just stammering and swearing. But another word for improvising is writing. And that's not what you pay actors to do.”
Source: Cinema Speculation
“It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”
“It reminds us that while we have a significant impact, the world was here before us and will continue after we are gone. Our presence is temporary... Yet confronting impermanence can deepen appreciation for the present. Knowing life is finite encourages us to live with intention”
“It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.”
“It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do.”
“It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.”
“It represents how work flows, who does the work, and how the value stream is performing on the day the map is created.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.”
Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry
“It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.”
“It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.”
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“It required an enormous amount of energy and time just to do errands like getting groceries. She was always sweaty after she got groceries.”
Source: Everybody Rise
“It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such endeavors and the evolution of associated instrumentation, initially of purely scientific interest, most of the investigations that lead to the basic equations of electromagnetism would have been missed. ... We would have been deprived of electromagnetic machinery as well as knowledge of electromagnetic waves.”
Source: The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs
“It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.”
Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel
“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.”
Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.”
“It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient, sallow, and that this contribution they must have commenced to make before they can hope to understand the spirit that informs all great works and inspires all noble living.”
“It requires a desperate and lonely sort of courage to challenge the accepted wisdom upon which social peace of mind rests.”
Source: House Harkonnen
“It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value”
“it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.”
“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”
“It requires a long time to know anyone.”
“It requires a lot of strength and self awareness to realize and accept a thing which is not correct but you have been doing it for long, and may be you have mastered it..!”
“It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.”
“It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.”
“It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
“It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary
“It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall.”
Source: When Women Were Dragons
“It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.”
“It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.”
“It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.”
“It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.”
Source: Traits of American Life
“It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.”
Source: Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America
“It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.”
Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd
“It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.”
“It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.”
“It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.”
Source: The shop-talk of Edgar Degas
“It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.”
“It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion”
Source: Science And Health
“It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.”
“It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.”
Source: The Metamorphosis
“It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it.”
Source: All Is Not Forgotten
“it requires great courage
to hold the wounded
parts of yourself
that are longing
for your loving attention”
Source: May You Know Peace: An Invitation to Embrace Your Life, As It Is
“It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself