I Quotes
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“It's laughable, looking back, to see the processes I went through, pretending to make a reasoned decision. No choice is ever made on the basis of logic; the logic is fabricated around the impulse, the initial desire which is innate and incontrovertible. All the time, I knew where I was going, the elements of my fulfillment or ruin were always present; I only had to work my way into that seam of desire and find the hidden vein of dross or gold. It's not a question of predestination, it's just that free will and destiny are illusions, false opposites, consolations. In the end, they are one and the same: a single process. You choose what you choose and it could not have been otherwise: the choice is destiny. It was there all along, but any alternative you might have considered is an absurd diversion, because it is in your nature to make one choice rather than another. That is identity. To speak of freedom or destiny is absurd because it suggests there is something outside yourself, directing your life, where really it is of the essence: identity, the craftwork of the soul.”
Source: The Dumb House
“It's laughter that lubricates our irritations, that releases our tensions, that feeds our joy… it’s the laughter that helps keep things warm and joyful even in the midst of pain.”
“It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.”
Source: Antarctica
“It's less drama when you have more M's than friends.”
“It’s less important to get everything done than to get the right things done.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“It’s less that we’re missing the gift of vision and more that we have the tendency to obstruct it.”
“It’s libertine this and libertine that, but so far as I can tell, he only has about six notches in his bedpost and it never once crossed his mind that he could lower himself onto it.”
Source: Stern Plastic Owl
“It's life asking, "Are you all in? Can you value your own vulnerability as much as you value it in others?" Answering yet to these questions is not weakness: It's courage beyond measure. It's daring greatly. And often the result of daring greatly isn't a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of freedom mixed with a little battle fatigue.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“It's life, it's happening to you right now, what are going to do with your time here? Are you going to help people? are you going to chase your career, start a family or buy many properties; independently? Whatever it is, make a choice and do something with it - one thing is certain, most people die living their life, never a day before or after, only when their truly experiencing. That could be tomorrow, would you be proud of everything you became and achieved? If not, now is your second chance.”
“It's life's failure and its deficiencies that make someone a daydreamer. I don't understand why prophets and philosophers didn't see the significance in that. I think imagination is at the heart of reality, or at least, is the immediate definition and interpretation of reality.”
Source: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
“It's like a blueberry White Russian,' John said, now on his third spoonful.
'It tastes exactly the same,' Mike said, his teeth already bright blue.
'No, no, it tastes better,' John said. 'I feel like it's making me stronger.”
Source: Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past
“It's like a bunch of hookers advertising their cellulite/ stretch- mark infested bodies to the highest bidder, and then claiming they deserve respect. Crawling on their hands and knees, pupils dilated on the high of greed, licking their lips almost tasting their next job of self- whoredom, and nothing is more tempting than the idea of Mr. Ellison. He could pay for tricks perform by the Pope, chandler-swinging strip-tease nuns.. No one has ever said "NO" to the idea of money and therefore no one has ever said "No" to Mr. Ellison and actually meant it... and then you have to wonder why he has no respect for people?”
Source: The Ellison Effect
“It's like a challenge. To change yourself and let others change you.”
Source: All the Birds in the Sky
“It's like a chronic illness,
living under a government that does not see or hear you, that
does not care.
There are many of us who have lived that way
in more ways--for far longer--than others:
people of color, women, immigrants,
and, of course, the disabled and those suffering
actual chronic illness and injury,
each suffering their own misery,
acknowledged more or less by the society at large
depending on the current fashion.
For those currently in charge of the systems that be, we
who suffer
are
out of fashion.”
“It's like a...dance somehow, a minuet or a pavane. Something stately and pointless, with all its steps set out. With a beginning, and an end...
Sir John, sometimes I think life's all a mass of significance, all sorts of strands and threads woven like a tapestry or a brocade. So if you pulled one out or broke it the pattern would alter right back through the cloth. Then I think...it's all totally pointless, it would make just as much sense backwards as forwards, effects leading to causes and those to more effects...maybe that's what will happen, when we get to the end of Time.”
Source: Pavane
“It's like a 'Fragile' sticker's on my forehead, and instead of taking a chance and saying something that might break me, they'd rather say nothing at all. But the silence is worst.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.
A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.”
Source: Chain Letter
“It's like a heist!" Silt said with enthusiasm. "Except instead of gems or gold, we're stealing back our friend."
"I think that's called kidnapping," said Kina.”
Source: The Teller of Small Fortunes
“It’s like a man in the trenches
again: he doesn’t know any more why he should go on living, because
if he escapes now he’ll only be caught later, but he goes on just
the same, and even though he has the soul of a cockroach and has
admitted as much to himself, give him a gun or a knife or even just
his bare nails, and he’ll go on slaughtering and slaughtering, he’d
slaughter a million men rather than stop and ask himself why.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“It's like a maze. Moment I start thinking I'm getting somewhere, I turn a corner and come up against a dead end. Or find myself back where I started.”
Source: Troubled Blood
“It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept drinking.”
Source: Women
“It's like a natural law that my mother can never look anything less than obscenely beautiful. Even though she was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, heads turned in her direction.
Or maybe they were staring at me as I tried to discreetly wipe sweat from between my breasts without appearing to get to second base with myself. Hard to say.”
Source: Hex Hall
“It's like a nesting doll of imagination! It's like a painting of a painting! It's like the wind catching a chill from the wind, or a wave taking a dip in the ocean. It's like reading a novel that merely describes another novel. It's like music tapping its foot to a tune and saying 'Oh! I love this song!”
Source: Confessions of an Imaginary Friend
“It's like a play being enacted in a dark theater. You have brought your own torch to watch it. You should be able to walk out without feeling bad because the play is not dependent on your torch.”
“It's like a stomach ache after not eating for five days. The muscles are starting to eat themselves,
and you couldn't care less.
It's about holding on to every moment with every ounce of your being, every atom. It's about memorising every expression, the way your muscles work, the way you speak, how your voice sounds during every part of the day. It's about not feeling the goodbye in every kiss, in every hug, in every touch. It's about trying to keep your voice steady even with a knife to your throat.
It's August and I'm tired of being strong.
I never really was very brave.
Throw me on sharp edges, I've never felt so destructive.”
Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“It's like an addiction, one I battle every day. It appeared at first drink. I was becoming the very thing I feared---my father's son. I wanted to be as far away from that Threshold as possible. I swore I'd never take another sip, no matter how crazy it made me. No matter how much it called to me. Resisting became easier with time.”
Source: Unblemished
“It's like an itch, isn't it? You can feel it in your throat. You want to scream for me.”
Source: Bound to Accept
“It's like an itch you can't scratch, knowing someone is suffering under your own roof.”
“It's like an orgasm in my mouth. Wait. That came out wrong.”
Source: Cancer Perks
“It's like answering the door for Jehovahs Witnesses, setting yourself up to fail”
“It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody.”
“It's like being best friends with a fairy-tale giant; Tiny Cooper can't help but hurt you.”
“It's like being handed over a scantron sheet and demanded to paint a self-portrait on it. It's possible, of course, but why even bother when a canvas is within our reach? Is it really a choice, when you don't get to select the options you are given to begin with?”
Source: Beyond the Gender Binary
“It's like being in a lunatic asylum and having another patient all dressed up as a doctor come over to you and start taking your pulse or something.... It's just awful. He talks and talks and talks.”
Source: franny and zooey
“It's like being numb most of the time,” she tried to explain, tried to calm herself down by putting words to feelings. “Everything feels gray, but when I do feel something, it's like I feel it more than most people and it hurts—it hurts me, personally, like the pain was made for me in mind. And suddenly—numb doesn't feel so bad.”
Source: Through a Glass, Darkly
“It’s like being offered lemonade after having something really sweet. The lemonade was wonderful before, but it just tastes sour after.”
Source: The Lady of the Vineyard
“It's like being raised by wolves -- you don't realize you're not one yourself until someone points it out to you. Sometimes it makes me so mad that not everyone treats me just like another wolf.”
Source: The Pearl Thief
“It's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's for sale.
No - it's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's free!”
Source: Ten Things I Hate about You
“It’s like blowing on embers. The past sparks to life and haunts you.”
Source: South of Happy
“It’s like bodies make love during the day and souls make love at night.
~ Honeya”
“It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.”
Source: City on Fire
“It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don't know the furniture, don't recognize the floor plan. But you know by the feel of it that it's an old familiar place and you are glad you came."
"I like it here," said. Ebenezer and he meant Webster's lap, but the man misunderstood.
"Of course, you do," he said. "It's your home as well as mine. More your home, in fact, for you stayed here and took care of it while I forgot about it.”
Source: City
“It’s like denying a hurricane or a tidal wave. Nico is my natural disaster, he’s my pleasure incarnate, he’s my sins made flesh and I want him to take me, ravish me, turn me into something I never once dreamed.”
Source: Broken by Sin
“It’s like diarrhea.”
“It’s like diving into a goddamn swimming pool, sweetheart. That’s how wet you are down here. Your mind can fight me all it wants, but your cunt is desperate for my touch,” I taunt, smugness dripping off me like beads of sweat.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake.”
“It's like Dungeons and Dragons, but real."
Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect. "It's like what?"
"It's a game," Clary explained. She felt vaguely embarrassed. "People pretend to be wizards and elves, and they kill monsters and stuff."
Jace looked stupefied.
Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?"
"I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct."
Simon looked disappointed. "You've never killed a dragon?"
"He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either," Clary said irritably. "Lay off, Simon."
"Real elves are about eight inches tall," Jace pointed out. "Also, they bite.”
Source: City of Bones
“It’s like, Earthlings, you idiots, get it together!”
Source: The Last Days of Lorien
“It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."
"Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together," retorted Mark.”
Source: Radio Fifth Grade
“It’s like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.”
Source: The Fifteenth of June