I Quotes
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“It's confusing to love people," Ginny said. "But I think it's worth it.”
Source: A Time Apart
“It's consent and context that distinguish fondness from filth.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“It’s cool, new eyes for a poet
are way too easy to cum by, baby
We get off on having nine lives-
MEOW (I wasn’t yet a lion)”
“It's cool to be cold.”
“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“It's cooler to be strong.”
“It’s cozy to shut down the windows and draw the curtains. But, this coziness comes at the cost of disconnecting from opportunities. Is this a good trade off?”
Source: Quantraz
“It’s crazy how much I wish I didn’t care. I wish, so much, all the time, that I didn’t give a shit about this sort of thing—that I could be like Warner, a frozen, unforgiving island; or even like Adam, who’s found his happiness in family, in his relationship with his brother—but I’m like neither. Instead, I’m a big, raw, bleeding heart, and I spend my days pretending not to notice that I want more. That I need more.
Maybe it sounds weird to say, but I know I could love the shit out of someone. I feel it, in my heart. This capacity to love. To be romantic and passionate. Like it’s a superpower I have. A gift, even.
And I’ve got no one to share it with.”
Source: Shadow Me
“It’s crazy how much simpler and lighter life becomes once we realize we don’t have to know everything. Without the constant pressure to get things “right” and “perfect,” we can relax into who we are and act without second-guessing whether we’re making the right move or not.”
“It's crazy how much you can get get done when you actually want to do the thing. The difference between forced, uninspired work and passionate work is astounding.”
Source: Organised Chaos
“It's crazy how sometimes you have to be destroyed to be made anew.”
“It's crazy that her tester pancake turned out to be perfect," I finally said.
"Her what?" Cat chuckled.
"You know, the tester pancake," I explained, hoping that the preceding glasses of wine wouldn't make this analogy impossible to follow. "Like, when you're making pancakes, you don't just start off by dumping all the pancake batter onto the griddle and assuming everything will be okay. You have to start with one and then test it out to see--- is the griddle hot enough? Is the batter not too thick or not too loose? Does the butter melt at the right sizzle? Does the batter have the right ratio of blueberries---"
"You mean chocolate chips---" she interjected.
"I mean blueberries for my fictional theoretical pancakes, thank you very much. Anyway," I said, clearing my throat, "you need the tester pancake to help you adjust. Not to mention you might spend years refining your pancake recipe to get to the one you want."
"But sometimes the tester just works," Cat argued wholeheartedly.
Such a hidden sap. It made no sense, since she---like me--- had essentially been single since college. But I knew she was a softie beneath her badass consulting and math-brain exterior.
"Besides," she said, "they always say when you know, you know.”
Source: Recipe for Second Chances
“It's crazy to think that there are other people who could be...what did you call us?'
'Sliders?'
'Yep. That.'
'Well, it's possible of course, but I think we're rare. One thing I've noticed is that the other people I've met — the dozen or so — have all been around our age. All thirties or forties or fifties. One was twenty-nine, en fait. All have had a deep desire to have done things differently. They had regrets. Some contemplated that they may be better off dead but also had a desire to live as another version of themselves.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It’s critical to discover the strategic and predictive pathway to changes; increase confidence, leverage resources, and engage people, to drive changes continually and effortlessly.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“It's critical to have confidence that the unsharpness / uncertainty principle manifests on the macro scale, as well as the micro. It's excruciatingly painful to logically derive the existence of macro existence as independent of micro entanglement. Jungian synchronicity is another term for this entanglement. It is your imagination that is the central method of controlling these entangled states.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“It’s crucial to emphasize that grief defies a linear path and cannot be confined to a predetermined timeline for “moving on” from a loss. Instead, grief becomes a lifelong journey, transforming and evolving in diverse ways as you integrate it into your life and carry it with you through time.”
“It’s crucial to practice self-empathy, for trust can’t be willed into existence. That didn’t work when our caregivers tried to impose their will on us, and it won’t work internally, either. Only when we can tap into a place of self-trust, with a reliable process of reparation for inevitable mistakes, can we build trust with another person.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“It's cruel to give hope where none should be.”
Source: War Storm
“It's crystal clear to me that no one wants to hear about it, but I will never finish needing to tell how much it hurts, how bad it is. I'm always looking for a scale to measure it by, some way to pierce the thick skin that separates me from other people, to make them understand.”
Source: Please Read This Leaflet Carefully: Keep This Leaflet. You May Need to Read It Again.
“It's curious, now that I think on it, that you've humored me as long as you have, considering you knocked a man out in midst of a dinner party, and yet you've wasted time with me instead of throwing me over your shoulder and carted me off to the billards room.”
Source: To Spark a Match
“IT'S CURIOUS THAT A RED EMBER LOOKS MORE ALIVE, GIVES YOU MORE OF A FEELING OF LIFE THAN ANY LIVING THING.”
Source: Coming Up for Air
“It's curious that life came into existence with its most basic attribute of protecting itself.”
Source: The Web of Karma
“It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?”
“It’s curious that you can, for $10,000, get 150 people to create something in competition for it. It literally means that you got 150 people to do something for $67 dollars each. Yep, hard to believe it, but $67 dollars times 150 people is $10,000 dollars.”
Source: sciVive
“It's curling ribbon, but you don't have to curl it. You don't have to do everything the ribbon tells you to do. Don't live your life like that.”
“It’s Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It’s Derek Lowe taking the mound the very next night to complete the most improbable comeback in baseball history—and then seven days later clinching the World Series. It’s Pedro Martinez and his six hitless innings of postseason relief against the Indians. Yes, it is also Cy Young and Roger Clemens, and the 192 wins in a Red Sox uniform that they share—the perfect game for Young, the 20 strikeout games for Clemens—but it is also Bill Dinneen clinching the 1903 World Series with a busted, bloody hand, and Jose Santiago shutting down Minnesota with two games left in the season to keep the 1967 Impossible Dream alive, and Jim Lonborg clinching the Impossible Dream the very next day, and Jim Lonborg again, tossing a one-hitter and a three-hitter in the 1967 World Series, and Luis Tiant in the 1975 postseason, shutting out Oakland and Cincinnati in back-to-back starts. They are all winners.”
Source: Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
“It's d-d-dishonourable to peek at someone else's cards."
"Cribbage is cutthroat.”
Source: Waiting for the Flood
“It's damp outside, and I'm always cold. Most days I wear a cap and shawl indoors."
"I could suggest other methods to keep yourself warm.”
Source: Suddenly You
“It’s dangerous to be grateful for the cage that traps you.”
Source: Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
“It's dangerous to know too much.”
Source: The Secret Adversary
“It's dangerous to make homes out of people. But damn, don't you want someone to describe you as "home?”
“It's dangerous to mistake our wishes for God's will.”
“It's DARE!”
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
Source: Island
“It's dark because you're trying too hard," said Susila. "Dark because you want it to be light. Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. 'Lightly, child, lightly. You've got to learn to do everything lightly. Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly. Yes, feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.' I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly—it was the best advice ever given me. Well, now I'm going to say the same thing to you, Lakshmi . . . Lightly, my darling, lightly. Even when it comes to dying. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self-conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Goethe or Little Nell. And, of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the Clear Light. So throw away all your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling. On tiptoes; and no luggage, not even a sponge bag. Completely unencumbered.”
Source: Island
“It’s dark here behind the dumpster.”
Source: Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories
“It's dark out there, the path is not clear, but there's nothin' to fear,
There's a spark glowin' from within that'll never ever disappear.”
“It's daughters playing soccer with the children of the rival group, sons marrying outsiders, aunts trading with longstanding enemies, and individuals of all backgrounds sharing a market, hospital, school, or art center with the people they've been told to hate. In their day-to-day lives, ordinary people often engage in actions that observers view as banal and unimportant, when in fact these everyday acts help establish relationships that can prevent local outbreaks of violence and, at times, serve as the basis to deal with conflict.”
Source: The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
“It's death there
is no cure for--
life the long
disease.
If we're lucky.
Otherwise, short
trip beyond.
And below.”
Source: Book of Hours: Poems
“It's decided!
Technique. Knowledge. Creativity. And most of all...
...the strength of will to stand by one's own cooking in the face of all comers!
In all of those things, these two dishes stand a cut above!
THE HOMECOOKING RESEARCH SOCIETY WINS! THEY SURVIVE!
THE DONBURI BOWL SOCIETY WINS! THEY SURVIVE!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 20 [Shokugeki no Souma 20]
“It’s decided, then,” he murmured. “I accept your proposition. There’s much more to discuss, of course, but we’ll have two days until we reach Gretna Green.” He rose from the chair and stretched, his smile lingering as he noticed the way her gaze slid quickly over his body. “I’ll have the carriage readied and have the valet pack my clothes. We’ll leave within the hour. Incidentally, if you decide to back out of our agreement at any time during our journey, I will strangle you.”
She shot him a sardonic glance. “You w-wouldn’t be so nervous about that if you hadn’t tried this with an unwilling victim l-last week.”
“Touché. Then we may describe you as a willing victim?”
“An eager one,” Evangeline said shortly, looking as though she wanted to be off at once.
“My favorite kind,” he remarked, and bowed politely before he strode from the library.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“It's decided then. I'm just going to lie here and have a little pity party for myself because who spends the night of their eighteenth birthday alone in their bedroom playing Angry Birds on a phone where the settings are all in Arabic, wearing a heart-shaped locket their mom gave them? Oh yeah, that's right, someone with no life. And no prospect of ever getting one.”
Source: Come Back to Me
“It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.”
Source: The Book of Dahlia
“it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.”
Source: Pippi Goes on Board
“It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say you're too girly; and when you climb trees, people say you're too much of a tomboy! As a woman, you really need to develop a very strong sense of self and the earlier you can do that, the better! You have to be all the things that you are, without allowing other people's ignorance change you! I realized that they don't know what grace is, they can't identify serenity, they have inferiority complexes, they are incapable of being feminine, and they don't know how to climb trees!”
“It's deflation of our value, devaluation through a system of paper trails created for deeper entanglement by inflating our minds with lies. It sickens me to my stomach but what more can I do? Only spread the message of Jehovah and His Son like the flu. I've been given the key of knowledge, it's true.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.”
Source: True Calling
“It's delicious,’ he announces, chewing my sandwich. 'I would like to stay here forever and die with you in my arms.'
'I don't know. I think it's too cold for forever,' I say, smiling.”
“It’s delicious like my favorite treat! It’s definitely good to eat!”
Source: A Sticky Mess