I Quotes
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“It's about the who not the do.”
Source: Hey Friend: 100 Ways to Connect with 100 People in 100 Days
“It's about this girl who meets this mega mysterious guy and they totally dig each other—Only he's not really a guy, he's a dragon and he's been cursed to live as a human by this evil dragon-dude, who also wants her. And then they totally do it.”
“It's about time to see the downfall of the scorecards of who's right and who's wrong. At the end of the day, what's important is that you feel good.”
Source: Create and Move Forward in Life
“It's about time you showed some sense. You should be afraid."
"I'm shivering because I'm freezing."
"You're cute when you're afraid."
I give him a dirty look. "Yeah, you're cute when you're afraid too."
"You mean I'm devastatingly handsome when I'm not afraid. Because you've never seen me afraid.”
Source: World After
“It’s about to rain forks and knives,” Winterborne reported, water drops glittering on his hair and the shoulders of his coat. He reached for a glass of champagne from a silver tray on the table, and raised it in Tom’s direction. “Good luck it is, for the wedding day.”
“Why is that, exactly?” Tom asked, disgruntled.
“A wet knot is harder to untie,” Winterborne said. “The marriage bond will be tight and long lasting.”
Ethan Ransom volunteered, “Mam always said rain on a wedding day washed away the sadness of the past.”
“Not only are superstitions irrational,” Tom said, “they’re inconvenient. If you believe in one, you have to believe them all, which necessitates a thousand pointless rituals.”
Not being allowed to see the bride before the ceremony, for example. He hadn’t had so much as a glimpse of Cassandra that morning, and he was chafing to find out how she was feeling, if she’d slept well, if there was something she needed.
West came into the room with his arms full of folded umbrellas. Justin, dressed in a little velveteen suit, was at his heels.
“Aren’t you supposed to be upstairs in the nursery with your little brother?” St. Vincent asked his five-year-old nephew.
“Dad needed my help,” Justin said self-importantly, bringing an umbrella to him.
“We’re about to have a soaker,” West said briskly. “We’ll have to take everyone out to the chapel as soon as possible, before the ground turns to mud. Don’t open one of these indoors: It’s bad luck.”
“I didn’t think you were superstitious,” Tom protested. “You believe in science.”
West grinned at him. “I’m a farmer, Severin. When it comes to superstitions, farmers lead the pack. Incidentally, the locals say rain on the wedding day means fertility.”
Devon commented dryly, “To a Hampshireman, nearly everything is a sign of fertility. It’s a preoccupation around here.”
“What’s fertility?” Justin asked.
In the sudden silence, all gazes went to West, who asked defensively, “Why is everyone looking at me?”
“As Justin’s new father,” St. Vincent replied, making no effort to hide his enjoyment, “that question is in your province.”
West looked down into Justin’s expectant face. “Let’s ask your mother later,” he suggested.
The child looked mildly concerned. “Don’t you know, Dad?”
Source: Chasing Cassandra
“It’s about who you miss at 3 in the afternoon when you’re busy, not at 3 in the morning when you’re lonely.”
“It's absolutely possible to experience bliss during breakups. Bliss that is different, but equal in value to, the euphoria experienced while sharing your life with someone. I am convinced that heartbreak is an unnaturally induced state which we were conditioned into believing is natural. It's a scam. I feel that the breaking of a relation can be equal in value to the making of it. And if we realize the joy that can be mined from the experience, we would eliminate this form of suffering, from our lives, altogether. You can feel catapulted into glistening self-love, enlightenment, growth and confidence, during emergence from the state of being in love with someone. It's a treasure trove of its own merit.”
“It’s absolutely retrogressive to suggest [ME] CFS is in the heads of patients. I have seen patients commit suicide, or have been otherwise destroyed, because some professor has diagnosed them as having a psychiatric illness.”
“It's absurd how crazy love can make you...
...but even more absurd how stupid jealousy can make you!”
Source: Soccer Sweetheart
“It's absurd to think about how a $1,600 stipend changed the course of my life. It's absurd to think about how many internships are still unpaid, and how elitist and morally corrupt it is to hire unpaid or underpaid labor.”
Source: This Is What I Know About Art
“It's acceptable to admit that someone, at some point, meant a lot to you, that person held significance. Even if they still do in some ways, or no longer do, it's okay to let them go. Accepting their absence doesn't diminish the importance of what you shared. Recognize that not every relationship is crafted for forever, and that understanding is a compass guiding you away from the quagmire of the past...”
“It’s actually funny that science lays claim to randomness since no one has ever seen a random event. Scientists interpret events as random rather than causal because of their dogmatic ideology. Their paradigm forbids them from referring to unobservable causal processes – implying a reality more fundamental than science which science cannot penetrate – but accepts randomness, as the least threat to science’s supremacy, even though, in Hume’s terms, randomness is no more empirical than causation, hence no more scientifically valid, and infinitely less rational!”
Source: Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War
“It's actually Jane Austen who pushes Louisa Musgrove off the slippery rocks.”
Source: Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times
“It's actually normal to desire perfection—at least near, but remember originality too.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“It’s addictive. The way she hates me. The way she burns with that fire that glows so white hot, I ache whenever she looks at me. Like she’s always just on the edge of erupting and blowing my entire life to pieces.”
Source: Rule of the Aurora King
“It’s admirable how they can still smile and find love.”
Source: A Place for Wolves
“It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“It's after school, after my double detentions for gym and chemistry, and I'm at Knead, about to begin working on a new piece. I wedge the clay out against my board, enjoying the therapeutic quality of each smack, prod, and punch.
As the clay oozes between my fingers and pastes against my skin, images of all sorts begin to pop into my head. I try my best to push them away,to focus instead on the cold and clammy sensation of the mound and the way it helps me relax. But after only a few short minutes of solitude, I hear someone storm their way up the back stairwell. At first I think it's Spencer, but then I hear the voice:
"I'm coming up the stairs," Adam bellows. "I'm approaching the studio area, about to pass by the sink."
I turn to look, noticing he's standing only a few feet behind me now.
"I hope I didn't startle you this time," he says.
"Ha-ha." I hold back my smile.
"I would have called your cell to tell you I was coming up, but you never gave me your number."
"I'm fine," I assure him, unable to stifle a giggle.”
Source: Deadly Little Lies
“It's all a conundrum, isn't it—
forgetting the mixed tape in the car...
feeling forgotten when...
so many people are thinking of us?
Drinking when we should be eating...
sleeping when we should be making love...
thanking God above when we don't have enough?
Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant.
We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which...
still equals money.
Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion.
We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time,
but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“It's all a dream.”
Source: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.”
Source: Shopaholic to the Stars
“It's all a matter of perspective... Those whose actions make them heroes in times of war, might, under other circumstances, be branded as murderers.”
Source: One Piece, Volume 27: Overture
“It's all a process,steps along a path. Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there's more growing to be done.”
Source: Becoming
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: In dreams begin responsibility. Turn on this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. Just as we see with Eichmann.”
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: "In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise." [...] Just like Adolf Eichmann caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler. - Oshima”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“It's all a series of serendipities
with no beginnings and no ends.
Such infinitesimal possibilities
Through which love transcends.”
Source: The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
“It’s all a tolerable everyday charade, disturbing for the soul, acceptable for the eye. That’s why everyone is eager to only let you see them briefly, in passing, and not get to know them. Never know them.”
Source: Visit: a short story
“It’s all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses.”
Source: 21 Days to Change Your Body
“It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]”
Source: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
“It's all about creating an illusion, you see, if glamour's what you're after. You need shape and style. It doesn't really matter how cheap your outfit is for now. If you've got good hair and good shoes, you can carry it off”
Source: Missing in Soho
“It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.”
Source: How to Be a BadAss - A Survival Guide for Women
“It's all about energy”
“It’s all about energy just keep it positive around me.”
“it's all about falling/you land and get up so you can fall again/it's all about falling/i won't be afraid to hit that wall again”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“It's all about having fun and feeling good!”
Source: LIFE: Living In Fulfillment Every Day
“It’s all about having the heart … to leave the city and its false glitter for home if you’ve tried long enough and still can’t make it. I would be a big liar to tell you it’s easy to survive after having left home for years. You’re almost like a child when you return – you are starting from the scratch. But you have to behave like a child too if you’re ready to survive; be ever eager to learn. Get ready to take insults from every village rats set to eat your yams of respect and pride. Toe the line till you settle down properly and begin to understand the ways of the people back home. People would laugh at you at first but when your conditions start improving, everyone would laugh with you. Don’t forget the saying of our people: the same mouth that speaks of evil is the same mouth that speaks of good. It’s the heart to go back not minding the years that have been wasted. That is the secret.”
Source: Gamblers Make Better Lovers
“It’s all about how you stay madly in love with your partner through thick and thin, through ups and downs of life.
From (The Awakening)”
“It's all about inner silence! Everything else would just take you there!”
Source: The Voyage to Eternity
“It's all about Laughuck vs Sadist. The world of laughter vs the universe of sadness.”
“It's all about love, one way or another. If you want to understand someone's character, Adeline, look to what they love the most.”
Source: On Silver Winds
“It's all about loving someone so much that you can't stand the idea of losing them, even if it hurts, that all the hard stuff is worth it. If you can get through it together”
“It's all about measuring innovation and nothing about innovation itself.”
“It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.”
“It's all about motive. Climbing up and climbing out look the same on the outside.”
“It's all about Perfection or the tolerance of Imperfection”
“It’s all about perspective... From the top of the canyon, the river looks like a snake and from the bottom of the canyon, it looks like a cascading body of jewel-blue water.”
Source: Lerkus: A Journey to End All Suffering
“It's all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen. (Oct 4, 2011)”
“It’s all about “Priorities” There's No Such Thing as "Busy”
“It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life