I Quotes
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“It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.”
Source: Significance
“It's my job to help the guests, even if I think they'll turn out to be a super-snotty, dripping little twat of distaste and ill repute.”
Source: Creating a Concierge
“It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure]”
“It's my latest recipe." She beamed. "Roast leaf."
"It's gone off. That's not like any roast beef sandwich I've ever tasted."
"No, no. Not roast beef. Roast leaf."
He stared at her.
"I'm a vegetarian," she explained. "I don't eat meat. So I create my own substitutions with vegetables. Roast leaf, for example. I start with whatever greens are in the market, boil and mash them with salt, then press them into a roast for the oven. According to the cookery book, it's every bit as satisfying as the real thing."
"Your cookery book is a book if lies."
To her credit, she took it gamely. "I'm still perfecting the roast leaf. Perhaps it needs more work. Try the others. The ones on brown bread are tuna-ish- brined turnip flakes in place of fish- and the white bread is sham. Sham is everyone's favorite. Doesn't the color look just like ham? The secret is beetroot.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“It's my letter," she began. "I cannot make it right."
"Come in, come in," the Prince said gently. "Maybe we can help you." She sat down in the same chair as before. "All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me."
" 'Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only, my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' " She looked at Humperdinck. "Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?"
"It does seem a bit forward," the Prince admitted. "It doesn't leave him a great deal of room to maneuver.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“It’s my life and I’m not afraid to LIVE it! I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.”
“It’s my life,” I said childishly.
“And as your friend, he will always butt into it, awkwardly to be sure, and then back off instantly,” Fran replied.”
Source: Tigers and Devils
“It's my life, I think with amazement, and it's beautiful, and I can paint it any color I want to.”
Source: I Am Not Jessica Chen
“It's my love for the people that made me a scientist and a monk (a poet even), not my intellect.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“It's my magic. I say what my intention is and who or what it's for, no one else.”
“It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“It's my opinion he don't want to kill you,' said Perea - 'at least not yet. I've heard deir idea is to scar and worry a man wid deir spells, and narrow misses, and rheumatic pains, and bad dreams, and all dat, until he's sick of life. Of course, it's all talk, you know. You mustn't worry about it. But I wunder what he'll be up to next.'
'I shall have to be up to something first,' said Pollock, staring gloomily at the greasy cards that Perea was putting on the table. 'It don't suit my dignity to be followed about, and shot at, and blighted in this way. I wonder if Porroh hokey-pokey upsets your luck at cards.'
He looked at Perea suspiciously.
'Very likely it does,' said Perea warmly, shuffling. 'Dey are wonderful people.'
("Pollock And The Porrah Man")”
Source: Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
“It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.”
“It's my own name I'm afraid of forgetting."
"Your true name is written here," she said tapping his chest. "Tattooed on your heart. You don't let just anyone read it.”
Source: The Demon in the Wood
“It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan”
Source: The Awakening
“It’s my Prom King, Brett. He’s tapping at the window, wanting me to roll it down or to get out of the car — what an image that would be. How will I ever live that down? I can’t even see myself laughing about it twenty years from now. If the neighbors walk past they’ll probably report me to social services, I can hear them on the phone now, “She’s too lazy to even go to the bathroom, she just shits in her car.”
Source: Virtually Me
“It’s my right to take back control of my life because I am a Survivor!”
“It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange the other pains around it. I tell myself that pain is information, that I am learning to map the spaces of my own body. Then my body's feelings cascade toward my side, and pain pours over its outlines and erases them. ("Marriage")”
Source: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka
“It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.”
Source: Where She Went
“It's my underwear that dictates my mood for the day.”
“It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing!”
Source: The wind in the willows
“It's myself I've been hard on. But I think I've reached the point that forgiving myself finally feels okay. So I do.”
Source: Reminders of Him
“It's naivety to think that we can just change someone's lifetime belief system using some casual conversations. It cannot happen!”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“It's natural, as our loved ones age, to start grieving their loss. Even before we lose them.”
Source: Lily and the Octopus
“It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who are too cunning to fight their own battles-in short to defend not himself but people whom he's never met and moreover would not care to be in the same room with him-you have to condition him into loving violence not for the benefits it bestows on him but for its own sake. Result: the society has to defend itself from its defenders, because what's admirable in wartime is termed psychopathic in peace. It's easier to wreck a man than to repair him. Ask any psychotherapist. And take a look at the crime figures among veterans.”
Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“It’s natural for you to have some fears, but you need to overcome them at any cost.”
“It's natural that everyone wants to be successful, but many don't have the courage to keep moving forward.”
“It’s natural that self-discovery is a lifelong, ever-shifting process, and that what you are drawn to will likely change at various points in your life.”
“It’s natural that we should fear and be suspicious of representations of us by those who are not like us. Equally rational is the assumption that those who are like us will at least take care with their depictions, and will be motivated by love and intimate knowledge instead of prejudice and phobia. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, writing by women, and by oppressed minorities of all kinds, has wondrously expanded the literary landscape, ennobling griefs that had, historically, either passed unnoticed or been brutally suppressed and caricatured. We’re eager to speak for ourselves. But in our justified desire to level or even obliterate the old power structures—to reclaim our agency when it comes to the representation of selves—we can, sometimes, forget the mystery that lies at the heart of all selfhood. Of what a self may contain that is both unseen and ultimately unknowable. Of what invisible griefs we might share, over and above our many manifest and significant differences. We also forget what writers are: people with voices in our heads and a great deal of inappropriate curiosity about the lives of others.”
“It's natural to be scared but sometimes we must carry on anyway. Fear will not stop you dying, but it may stop you from living.”
Source: The journey
“It's natural to die," he said again. "The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature."
He smiled at the plant.
"We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“It’s natural to feel jealous. I think more than love, jealously is the first feeling a human feel.”
“It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]”
“It's natural to want to walk the path of least effort, but the path of least effort bears bitter fruits.”
“It’s nearly nightfall, the vast evening sky as resplendent and intricate as that quilt hanging from the wooden knob on the side of Grandma’s dresser. This sky is like the work of a seamstress, sown tangerine-orange, raspberry-pink, and dappled with cream-white clouds for an extra touch, the finished product so lush and vibrant that I could gape at it for hours.”
Source: Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
“It’s necessary for politicians to sell nationalism, or else their loyal subjects will all get untied.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“It's neither about the destination or the journey, but the people you travel with.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“It's neither about the journey, nor the destination; but the people you travel with.”
Source: You By You
“It’s neither an injury nor a wound but it can leave a scar. Some people do not have to break you to leave a strong mark; they are a lightning of miracle.”
Source: The Universe at Heartbeat
“It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.”
“It's neither easy nor impossible. Everything in this universe ranges from fear to hard work. Just go and get what you want.”
Source: My Quest For Happy Life
“It’s neutral creative territory; it’s where we meet when we really want to connect and elevate the game. We’re not here to impose our brand on each other, but to experience, like embodied spiritual hedonists, the richness of what it means to be — well, what it means to exist, period.”
Source: The Look of Amie Martine
“It's never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet bowl.”
Source: The Accidental Demon Slayer
“It’s never a nice cottage in the woods. If I ever find a witch with a house made of sweets, I’ll give her a hug.”
Source: The Man and the Crow
“It's never about her. Neither about him and nor about them. It's all about the words you keep playing with. These words don't let you sleep.”
“It's never about what you already know, it's always about what you can learn.”
“It's never all over. All you need is a little happiness, and it begins all over again.”
Source: Germinal
“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“It’s never been about winning or losing. It’s about living your life unafraid to do either.”
Source: Feast
“It’s never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, satisfy, or motivate them. You can’t just bombard people with messages anymore.”