I Quotes
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“It was a measure of just how lost and lonely I was, in my exile, that I looked forward to fighting him.”
Source: Shantaram
“It was a measure of Napoleon’s resilience and resourcefulness – and of the confidence that he still commanded – that having returned from Russia with only 10,000 effectives from his central invading force, he was able within four months to field an army of 151,000 men for the Elbe campaign, with many more to come.”
Source: Napoleon: A Life
“It was a measure that brought salvation, if General Mobutu had not done so, I and some members of my party would no longer be alive.”
“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”
“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”
Source: Three Comrades
“It was a mild, grey October afternoon; a day to make mild, grey decisions.”
Source: The Devil in the Marshalsea
“It was a mild winter’s evening in ‘Japp’s Saloon and Speakeasy’, in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn’t enjoy jokes about his name much.”
Source: Loderunner
“It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.”
“It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing . . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.”
“It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.”
“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“It was a miserable thing, to be responsible for breaking your own heart.”
Source: Crushed
“It was a mission of celebration: never had two Mexican-Americans flown up in space on the same mission, and never did burritos shine so brightly.”
Source: Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America
“It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it... constantly go to the well... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins.”
“It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven.”
“It was a mistake to follow my management training in high altitude professional astronomy. I never realized I was disciplining sickened staff that had become forgetful through altitude sickness that included oxygen starvation, adverse environmental exposures, central sleep apnea and mal-acclimatization!”
“It was a mistake to pursue a career in high altitude professional astronomy.”
“It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.”
“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.
Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?
And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.”
Source: Key Of Knowledge
“It was a mistake. You and I are going to be stationed together for the rest of our lives, never able to escape the other. Getting involved- even on a physical level- is a colossal blunder. No point talking about it.'
I barely keep from clutching at my chest to see if all my organs are where they're supposed to be, since it feels like he just eviscerated me with four sentences. But he had been just as into it as I was. I was there, and there was no mistaking that kind of... enthusiasm. But maybe it was the churam. 'What if I want to talk about it?'
'Then feel free, but it doesn't mean I have to be a part of the conversation. We're both allowed our boundaries, and this is one of mine.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.”
“It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.”
“It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.”
“It was a modern folklorist name Adrienne Mayor who first noticed that the Ancient Greek stories of the griffin (which had the body of a lion, head and claws of an eagle, tail of a serpent) perfectly described a Protoceratops. The Greeks believed that the griffin guarded treasures of gold. Mayor discovered that fossilized skulls of Protoceratops were often found in Mongolia, where the Greeks traveled to trade for gold.”
Source: The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth
“It was a moment [when I had found God] that so transformed my life. And I say this is so corny, but it was like the grass was green, the sky was blue. And I can't begin to articulate - as much as they say I'm a wordsmith - what really happened.”
“It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was a world, every hour a universe.”
Source: Skylight Confessions
“It was a moment of awe. I considered the powerful appearance of the two ravens an immediate and true message from God. The magical encounter settled in my cells. I embraced the call to honor those messengers whose commanding presence showed me the link between a call to God and a response through nature.”
Source: Still Moving: a memoir
“It was a moment of choice. I could watch and collect some gruesome memories in my soon-to-be-dead brain. Or I could save him, risking another heart attack.”
“It was a moment of despair, it was a moment of dream when one chapter ended, so another could begin....It was a moment of darkness, it was a moment of light when the night ended so dawn could show its face...It was the finest of emotions, it was the coarsest of feelings when you released what tormented you yet delighted you at the same time....It was a moment of tearing, it was a moment of meeting when the old self fell into pieces so the new self could reveal its light....”
“It was a moment of despair, it was a moment of dream...when one chapter ended, so another could begin. It was a moment of darkness, it was a moment of light when the night ended so dawn could show its face. It was the finest of emotions, it was the coarsest of feelings when you released what tormented you yet delighted you at the same time. It was the moment of tearing, it was the moment of meeting...when the old self fell into pieces and the new one revealed in light..”
“It was a moment where Ryder’s body, through the mathematical precision of his movements, removed the language barrier and let their souls speak unhindered.”
Source: Ledgers and Rent Boys
“It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“It was a monumental 'croquembouche,' a classically French, intricately crafted tower of individual profiteroles, each thinly crusted with hard-crack sugar, filled with pastry cream, bound together with luscious, glistening strands of caramel and chocolate into a conical, colorful Christmas-tree shape that rose proudly high over the heads of the delighted newlyweds. 'Chef de Patisserie' Pettibone had covered his 'piece montee' with a lustrous white-chocolate marzipan roses and dusted ever so lightly in twenty-four-karat gold.”
Source: Angelina's Bachelors
“It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.”
Source: Sketch For A Self Portrait
“It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.”
“It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.”
Source: Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf
“It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.”
Source: Too Much Happiness: Stories
“It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving.”
“It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.”
“It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.”
“It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.”
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield0: In Three Volumes
“It was a music of the spirit, seeking peace, not emotional release, expressing the hunger of the soul rather than the heart. A way of sequencing notes so ancient it might be music's mother lode, its Fertile Crescent. It wouldn't have grated, I felt, on the ears of ancient Greeks or Egyptians or Mesopotamians or Sumerians—or even on the august auditory equipment of the Buddha or Lao-tzu.”
Source: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
“It was a musty sweet smell. "Is this plague city?”
Source: Mother's Curse
“It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.”
“It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.”
“It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.”
Source: Medicus
“It was a myth, a fantastical portrayal of my mentor himself, his legend forever anchoring itself to history in a way mine will never be. Spring Heeled Jack, the boogeyman with eyes like fireballs who could jump unnaturally high. Breathing blue flames he'd ravage women with his claws.”
Source: Blood Sipper
“It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.”
“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, and themore it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving.
- Toru”