I Quotes
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“It's a powerful statement and one that Whitney sings with a grandeur that approaches the sublime. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late for us to better ourselves, to act kinder. Since it's impossible in the world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really, and it's beautifully stated in this album.”
Source: American Psycho
“It's a predictable cycle that's unfolded time and again throughout history: once your side dominates the rules of decision-making, free speech starts to look more like a problem than a solution.”
“It's a pretty low bar to ask public servants to not be a f—ing Nazi”
“It's a privilege to age.”
“It’s a privilege to educate yourself about racism instead of experiencing it”
“It’s a privilege to feel. And misery, my friend, is necessary. Otherwise, happiness would lose its charm.”
Source: That Thing About You
“It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves you back, it's unfair to demand or expect reciprocity. We should consider ourselves luck, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose.”
Source: Tibetan Peach Pie
“It's a privilege to serve GOD, after all, serving GOD is joy and Happiness”
“It’s a privilege when someone trusts you enough to buy your product without even knowing you.”
“It's a process.”
“It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“It’s a program called “Angels Among Us,” she said. “I don’t have to get a degree or anything.”
Source: Let It Snow
“It’s a promise, and a cry, and a prayer.
It’s unfair to ask him. Selfish.
But maybe I’ve earned a little of that, at the end of all things.”
Source: Send Me Their Souls
“It's a proving ground thing. But once you realize you have responsibilities to others, you go a bit more lightly. My son used to be pure liquid evil in a bar fight. He doesn't go to bars or fight anymore--because he has a wife and a young daughter. If you attacked them, heaven help you--but he is peaceful and Big Picture now unto himself.”
“It's a pushing age," Churchill wrote his mother as a young man, "and we must shove with the rest." It may well be that Winston Churchill was the greatest pusher in history. His life spanned the final calvary charge of the British Empire, which he witnesses as a young war correspondent in 1898, and ended well into the nuclear age, indeed the space age, both of which he helped usher in. His first trip to America was on a steamship (to be introduces on stage by Mark Twain, no less) and his final one was on a Boeing 707 that flew 500 miles per hour. In between he saw two world wars, the invention of the car, radio, and rock and roll, and countless trials and triumphs.”
Source: Stillness Is the Key
“It's a queer thing is a man's soul. It is the whole of him. Which means it is the unknown him, as well as the known. It seems to me just funny, professors and Benjamins fixing the functions of the soul. Why, the soul of man is a vast forest, and all Benjamin intended was a neat back garden. And we've all got to fit into his kitchen garden scheme of things. Hail Columbia !
The soul of man is a dark forest. The Hercynian Wood that scared the Romans so, and out of which came the white- skinned hordes of the next civilization.
Who knows what will come out of the soul of man? The soul of man is a dark vast forest, with wild life in it. Think of Benjamin fencing it off!
Oh, but Benjamin fenced a little tract that he called the soul of man, and proceeded to get it into cultivation. Providence, forsooth! And they think that bit of barbed wire is going to keep us in pound for ever? More fools they.
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Man is a moral animal. All right. I am a moral animal. And I'm going to remain such. I'm not going to be turned into a virtuous little automaton as Benjamin would have me. 'This is good, that is bad. Turn the little handle and let the good tap flow,' saith Benjamin, and all America with him. 'But first of all extirpate those savages who are always turning on the bad tap.'
I am a moral animal. But I am not a moral machine. I don't work with a little set of handles or levers. The Temperance- silence-order- resolution-frugality-industry-sincerity - justice- moderation-cleanliness-tranquillity-chastity-humility keyboard is not going to get me going. I'm really not just an automatic piano with a moral Benjamin getting tunes out of me.
Here's my creed, against Benjamin's. This is what I believe:
'That I am I.'
' That my soul is a dark forest.'
'That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.'
'Thatgods, strange gods, come forth f rom the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.'
' That I must have the courage to let them come and go.'
' That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.'
There is my creed. He who runs may read. He who prefers to crawl, or to go by gasoline, can call it rot.”
Source: Studies in Classic American Literature
“It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“It´s a race, then. May the best Antari win.”
Source: Conjuro De Luz
“It’s a radical class struggle, but only one element in the struggle is always fighting: the business world. They’re dedicated, they never stop. They didn’t stop during the New Deal, continued, continued afterward, always going on. Unless working people, the general population, take part in the class struggle, they’re going to get it in the neck.”
“It's a rare hurt that can stand under the advice, help, and sympathy generated by upwards of thirty people that care. Callahan loses a lot of his regulars. After they've been coming around long enough, they find they don't need to drink any more.”
Source: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
“It’s a real life, it’s not necessary that it’ll play out the way you thought it will.”
“It's a real shame that these people can dictate what grows inside our bodies. Disgusting, really.”
Source: Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
“It’s a really rare thing to have a friend that changes your mind”
“It’s a really simple formula: Your experience + Yoga = New Students.”
Source: Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
“It's a relief to leave unnecessary things. But do the necessary things have to be so heavy?”
Source: Shadow Life
“It's a reminder that there's more to life than the things that need to be done. There's also things that want to be done.”
Source: A Witch's Guide to Burning
“It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But you ought to read the rest, just the same.'
'Why?'
'Because it has a happy ending.”
Source: A Lady of Persuasion
“It’s a riptide. You don’t fight the current.”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“It’s a riptide. You don’t fight the current Rachel, that’s how even strong swimmers exhaust themselves and die. Swim parallel to the coast instead. The ocean’s gonna get bored of you eventually, she’ll let you go if you’re patient enough and don’t fight her.”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“It’s a risk to open your heart and care when you might find yourself alone in the end.”
Source: Blood Moon
“It's a rule of life that we can, and should, learn from everyone. There are solemn and serious things we can learn from quacks and crooks, there are philosophies taught us by fools, there are lessons in faithfulness and justice brought to us by chance and by those we chance to meet. Everything is in everything.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“It’s a sad fact of humans that we often gain a sense of belonging in a group by denying access to another.”
“It's a sad fact of modern life that sooner or later you will end up on YouTube doing something stupid. The trick, according to my dad, is to make a fool of yourself to the best of your ability.”
Source: Broken Homes
“It's a sad state of affairs when you get used to the sight of blood, glorifying aggression as bravehearted. It's a sad state of affairs when you feel good dressing up for gala, while children are being bombed to death.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.”
Source: The Tiger's Wife
“It’s a sad truth that in life, the people who hurt us the most are also the people who love us the most, and that they often do so with the best of intentions.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“It's a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in.”
Source: The Memory of Light
“It's a sauna in her," Lily complained. She flapped her hands, trying to wave a breeze into the robe Rowan had told her to wear to this afternoon's ritual instead of the silk slip. "What are we making today? Deep-fried witch?”
Source: Trial by Fire
“It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.”
“It’s a scientific fact that there are only a handful of jobs you’re allowed to have if you’re one of the leads in a romantic comedy: dog walker, architect, kindergarten teacher, cupcake chef, florist, special needs veterinarian, suspiciously well-paid magazine writer, and independent bookstore owner. So it stands to reason that the likelihood of meeting your soul mate in one is high.”
“It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.”
Source: Secondhand World
“It's a secret code," said Calvin. "Girls are not not like boys. If a boy wants to kill you, he says 'I'm going to kill you.' If a girl wants to kill you, she says, 'We need to talk.' That's the code."
I gasped. "Has a girl ever wanted to talk to you?" I asked.
"Yup," said Calvin.
"How come you're still alive?" I asked.
"I vomited," said Calvin.”
Source: Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made Catastrophes
“It’s a sense of satisfaction because I proved all my friends and relatives wrong.”
“It’s a sentimental thought to have a man carry you across the threshold to solace, confidence, romantic bliss and happy endings. The truth is, however, that you have to discover, embrace and own your own wondrous and revered self.”
“It's a sewer. Smells like what you'd expect. A buncha crap. Best forgotten”
Source: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2024-) #1: Return to New York Part One: Teenage Mutant Inmate
“It’s a shallow society and adjusting to it leads to a characterless life.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened.”
Source: The Swan Thieves
“It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.”
“It’s a shame really, I mean, if you’re only doing something for the money and all, it’s like you don’t even really care about what you’re doing. So many people
only do good things because they get paid for it.”
Source: The October Amaryllis