I Quotes
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“It's deplorable that academia should prostitute itself, but there it is. Not even Harvard is above it. In fact, Harvard least of all, with that ludicrous delusion of self-importance that makes every Harvard professor feel he's a public intellectual, qualified to comment on issues far beyond his expertise.”
Source: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
“It’s depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.”
Source: Eeeee Eee Eeee
“It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.”
Source: The Collector
“It’s destiny; the stars have aligned perfectly to bring us together as friends. You cannot argue with what’s meant to be, once the stars have spoken, it is absolute,” he uttered, all smug and knowing.
Shocked that he used the word destiny, I cocked my head and shot him a look—for the first time actually seeing Parker. He was pretty…too pretty to be a guy; streaky blond hair—as if each streak had been strategically placed—dark eyes, pale skin, and a charming smile that dimpled in one cheek.
“Destiny has already found me, with a clearly marked path for my future,” I retorted.
“Then you are doubly fortunate, to have it find you twice.” Parker smiled again, his eyes eerily piercing into mine.”
“It’s destiny; the stars have aligned perfectly to bring us together as friends. You cannot argue with what’s meant to be, once the stars have spoken, it is absolute,” he uttered, all smug and knowing.
Shocked that he used the word destiny, I cocked my head and shot him a look—for the first time actually seeing Parker. He was pretty…too pretty to be a guy; streaky blond hair—as if each streak had been strategically placed—dark eyes, pale skin, and a charming smile that dimpled in one cheek.
“Destiny has already found me, with a clearly marked path for my future,” I retorted.
“Then you are doubly fortunate, to have it find you twice.” Parker smiled again, his eyes eerily piercing into mine.
Parker and Danielle”
“It's detrimental to productivity telling ourselves we can't, when we can.”
“It’s… did it happen to you at the home? Where you grew up?”
There was something odd in Sirius’ voice. Remus found he couldn’t speak, so he just nodded. Sirius nodded too. “I’ve got scars.” He said, so quietly that Remus thought he’d misheard at first.
Sirius bent down, and pulled up his trouser leg, turning his ankle to show Remus the marks there. His scars weren’t like Remus’ – which were big and rough and jagged, full of rage and hunger. The silver stripes on the backs of Sirius’ legs were thin and straight; uniform in their cruelty. Remus stared for a few seconds, before Sirius dropped the edge of the fabric and straightened up.
They stared each other down for a full minute. Remus feeling very hot, Sirius’ eyes cool and calm. Then it broke.
“Shall we go and watch James making a prat of himself?” Sirius asked.
Remus nodded again, and they both stepped back out into the cold autumn air.”
Source: All the Young Dudes
“It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one.”
Source: China Room
“It's different from both chicken and duck. It's flavorful and tender. Lots of umami.'
'The skin is crispy like Peking duck, but the flesh is so moist and creamy.'
'I've never eaten anything like this before! The stuffing in the middle is out of this world. Did you make it all from scratch? I'd love the recipe. Will you give it to me later?'
Rika was the last to pick up her fork and tuck in to the meat. The first thing she experienced was simple relief that the pink flesh was sufficiently cooked. It had a unique fragrance to it, which made her think of walking along a path with fallen leaves crunching underfoot, and its clear juice filled her mouth. The stuffing of mochi rice, mince and pine nuts, now swollen with all the turkey juice and butter it had soaked up, had a sticky texture and a concentrated richness of flavor totally different to before it had been stuffed, which made Rika feel that she wanted to carry on eating it forever.”
Source: Butter
“It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.”
Source: The Lost Crown
“It's different when you think that someone's always going to be around. You think you got all the time in the world to make it right.”
Source: Sadie
“It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it... I just have to live it”
“It's difficult for women to be honest and direct because for centuries we were burned at the stake, or persecuted, or exiled, or rejected, or excommunicated, or divorced, or shamed, or socially excluded, for saying what we truly thought and felt. Now, we know how to act like we're being direct and forthright, when we're not, and we know how to seem uninhibited and free, when we're not, and we know how to appear helpless and damaged, when we're not. Deception is more ingrained in us than honesty.”
Source: A Room Called Earth
“It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark.”
Source: Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
“It’s difficult, if not impossible, to let go of all that negativity, which is a serious drain on your motivation, but you got to let it go.”
“It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“It's difficult not to read Vivien(ne) as this pathetic spectacle of illness and dependence. The ultimate grotesque of femininity, like Freud's hysteric/housewife (both Dora and her mother). But channeling her, imagining an interior life, I can sense her early inner spirit and see it squelched and doomed into sickness and submission. Under different circumstances and with more strength and less of a mother who crafted her as an invalid from childhood., she could have been an author. Maybe.”
Source: Heroines
“It's difficult or impossible to plant good seeds with a captured spirit, a heart full of anger and lies, and a negative mind.”
“It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.”
Source: The Bookshop of Yesterdays
“It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling.”
Source: Honored Enemy
“It's difficult to accept you're wrong when you're extra confident.”
“It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.”
“It's difficult to be honest with others when you continue lying to yourself.”
“It's difficult to become someone you don't know at all. It's difficult, indeed, to become yourself.”
Source: Becoming What I Might Be
“It's difficult to carry the weight of responsibilities. But, it's more difficult to carry the weight of expectations.”
“It's difficult to continue loving someone who shits on you.”
Source: Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
“It's difficult to cross from one economic class to another. You'll drown in champaigne.”
Source: The New Land
“It's difficult to disapprove of a place that gave me so much joy.”
Source: In Memoriam
“It’s difficult to dispense with strategy when I want something as much as I want you.”
Source: A Lady of Conscience
“It's difficult to experience high levels of success if people fear losing a paycheck due to continuous improvement.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“It’s difficult to fight when you have no idea who your enemy is.”
Source: Dark Things Between the Shadow and the Soul: Indian urban fantasy
“It’s difficult to find someone who is serious enough to explore your darkness.”
“It’s difficult to go from a state of “I hate myself” all the way to “I love myself”. There's a LOT of steps in between those two things. It’s also hard to go from “I love myself” to “I deserve the world!” But here I am. I’m at that state of being. I do deserve the world. I deserve my deepest desires and wildest dreams to come true. I know this with everything in my mind, body, and soul.”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“It's difficult to hones with others when you continue lying to yourself.”
“It's difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself.”
“It’s difficult to imagine him experiencing feelings of captivating while talking to a beautiful woman. But a person’s outward appearance does not define the boundaries of their internal feelings, Ivan knows. Plain, unappealing people are by no means exempt from the experience of strong passions.”
Source: Intermezzo
“It’s difficult to imagine that Artificial Intelligence will take the place of people but many believe that it’s only a short time before computers will outthink us. They already can beat our best chess players and have been able to out calculate us since calculators first came onto the scene. IBM’s Watson is on the cutting edge of Cognitive Computers, being used to out think our physicians but closer to home, for the greatest part; our cars are no longer assembled by people but rather robots. Our automobiles can be considered among our first robots, since they took the place of horses. Just after the turn of the last century when the population in the United States crossed the 100 M mark the number of horses came to 20M. Now we have a population of 325 M but only 9 M horses. You might ask what happened. Well back in 1915 there were 2.4 M cars but this jumped to 3.6 M in just one year. Although horses still out-numbered cars the handwriting was on the wall!
You might think that this doesn’t apply to us but why not? The number of robots increase, taking the place of first our workers on the assembly line and then workers in the food industry and this takes us from tractors and combines on the farms to the cooking and serving hamburgers at your favorite burger joint. People are becoming redundant! That’s right we are becoming superfluous! Worldwide only 7 out of 100 people have college degrees and here in the United States only 40% of our working population possesses a sheep skin, although mine is printed on ordinary paper. With education becoming ever more expensive, we as a population are becoming ever more uneducated. A growing problem is that as computers and robots become smarter, as they are, we are no longer needed to be anything more than a consumer and where will the money come from for that? I recently read that this death spiral will run its course within 40 years! Nice statistics that we’re looking at….
Looking at the bright side of things you can now buy an atomically correct, life sized doll, as perhaps a robotic non-complaining, companion for under $120. In time these robotic beings will be able to talk back but hopefully there will be an off switch. As interesting as this sounds it will most likely not be for everyone, however it may appeal to some of our less capable, not to have to actually interface with real live people. The fact is that most people will soon outlive their usefulness! We as a society are being challenged and there will soon be little reason for our being. When machines make machines that can out think us; when we become dumb and superfluous, then what? Are we ready for this transition? It’s scary but If nothing else, it’s something to think about….”
“It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.'
'Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps we can't look that far back.' He got up from his desk and went over to the window, from where he could see thin pillar of smoke rising into the clouds. 'I never know where anything comes from, Walter.'
'Comes from, sir?'
'Where you come from, where I come from, where all this comes from.' And he gestured at the offices and homes beneath him. He was about to say something else but he stopped, embarrassed; and in any case he was coming to the limits of his understanding. He was not sure if all the movements and changes in the world were part of some coherent development, like the weaving of a quilt which remains one fabric despite its variegated pattern. Or was it a more delicate operation than this - like the enlarging surface of a balloon in the sense that, although each part increased at the same rate of growth as every other part, the entire object grew more fragile as it expanded? And if one element was suddenly to vanish, would the others disappear also - imploding upon each other helplessly as if time itself were unravelling amid a confusion of Sights, calls, shrieks and phrases of music which grew smaller and smaller? He thought of a train disappearing into the distance, until eventually only the smoke and the smell of its engine remained.”
Source: Hawksmoor
“it's difficult to let go of the person you care about the most. But now I find him, it's even harder to hold the memory of a person who doesn't care about you in the way you hopped.”
Source: He Loves Me
“It's difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass--or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses--can really make a difference for, say, lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children. -Katherine Raymond”
Source: PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
“It's difficult to put a finger on exactly how, no matter what the situation, BTS managed to do their work, while sending their intense love to ARMY and demonstrating how trustworthy they were. Maybe it was because BTS and ARMY had always gone through everything together, or perhaps it was the members' inborn nature, or because they'd naturally communicated and shared their emotions with their fans from the very beginning.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“It’s difficult to remember who you are when you’ve never discovered who that person is.”
Source: The Strength That Stays
“It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.”
Source: How to Be a Woman
“It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear of death may be the one emotion that is constant in the human heart even if, most of the time, it is confined to the unconscious as we go about our business. Thrill rides offer us a chance to acknowledge our ever-present dread, to release the tension that arises from repression of it, and to subtly delude ourselves with the illusion of invulnerability that surviving the Big Drop can provide.”
Source: Saint Odd
“It’s difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it’s the barest promise.”
Source: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
“It's difficult to unthink a thought you already had. Just as a hole is created the moment you drive a nail into the wall.”
Source: No One Writes Back
“It's difficult to wake up from a nightmare, if your not even asleep.”
Source: Beyond The Unthinkable
“It’s dirty and a little degrading and I want it more than anything in that moment.”
Source: Desperate Measures
“It's dirty.
Depraved.
Incredible”
Source: Crossed
“It's disappointing enough to know that the people we love will sometimes lie, but it is almost worse when we remember that strangers do this too, and this is why it is best not to admit our lies to strangers because it is not pleasant to learn that someone will lie even when there is little to nothing at stake.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing