I Quotes
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“It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.”
“It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.”
Source: The Hand of Oberon
“It was my turn to groan. Dress shopping with Kade’s mother. Kill me now. The alternative—arriving home without a gown—was equally unappealing.
“Okay, but I’m taking my switchblade along.”
“To defend yourself against my mother?” he asked with an incredulous tone.
“No. To slit my throat if the day goes badly.”
He laughed. “Make sure you don’t bleed in front of her. She faints at the sight of blood.”
“I’m so glad you have your priorities straight,” I said. My voice dripped with sarcasm.”
Source: Spy Glass
“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”
“It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.”
“It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.”
“It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.”
“It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.”
“It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.”
Source: Ptolemy's Gate
“It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, told her that the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; 'With good reason,' she said, 'for we are the only women who bring forth men'.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
“It was natural that I love her. It is natural for a man and woman to make family.” he said. “Upon that great stead with all our family shipped out from us, it is natural that we would be together. And we were together for some years. I will not disavow her. I will not denounce her. I will say I have sinned in a world full of terrible sinners, that this world is constructed to divide father from son, son from wife, and we must bite back with whatever a blade we have at hand.”
“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.”
Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.”
“It was near curfew time, and I was dropping him off for the night. He shook his head. "Rose, I don't know if you're crazy or not, but I'm actually starting to think you might be the best guardian- or soon-to-be guardian- out there." "Did you just give me a serious compliment?" I asked. He turned his back on me and headed inside his dorm. "Good night.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“It was nearing 9 O'clock, and the fist duck was drawing down. Behind the trees, the first star pricked out, low and brilliant. The light breeze of the day had dropped, and the evening was very still. The stream sounded loud. I walked down to the gate and stood leaning on the top bar, enjoying the scent of the roses, and straining to listen for any sound from the lane or the road beyond.”
Source: Rose Cottage
“It was nearly midnight when the conversation finally stopped on its own weight. The question was unresolved, at least in any explicit way.”
Source: The Final Days
“It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.”
Source: British Bulldog
“It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green and just remembering the moment.”
“It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a " Christ within us, the hope of glory.”
Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns -- should consent to carry out the will of these weak individuals...”
Source: War and Peace
“It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.”
“It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.”
Source: The Essex Serpent
“It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not.”
“It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.”
“It was necessary to invent history in order to invent the future. The sense of necessity in Cromwell and Lenin (and even in Jefferson) springs from an obsession with time, change, an obsession with cause and effect that starts to make the effect seem like the cause of its own cause. The future is the cause of the past, and we play antiquarian games to reassure ourselves that the past is past and different so that we can believe that the future will be different too.”
Source: The King's Evil
“It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.”
“It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.”
Source: A History of The American Poeple
“It was necessary to write about the war, to touch reader's hearts, to move them with words of love and sorrow, to bring to life electric moments, to let them, in the reading and the telling, fell they were there, in the past, with the author.”
Source: The Sorrow of War
“It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.”
“It was need, Linden. I don’t want to need anything. I can make. I can destroy. Need implies something controls me and nothing controls me.”
Source: Symphony of Light and Winter
“It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.”
Source: Collected Writings
“It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.”
“It was neither welcoming nor antagonistic, just a question. I wondered if it would be easier to lie.”
Source: Burying the Shadow
“It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.”
“It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.”
“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.”
“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.”
“It was never a gift; it was refuge. It was his hole. A coffin he crawled into. And now it’s like the world wants to crawl in it with him. The same world he is trying to hide from.”
“It was never a goal of mine to become famous. So, I never projected any goals associated with that. But I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.”
“It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.”
“It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.”
“It was never about being the one with the umbrella,it was always about facing the storm without it.”
“It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.”
“It was never about sex. It was about our bodies embracing one another and our souls becoming intertwined in warmth and devotion.”
“It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.”
“It was never about the money; at times no money was involved, just sex.”
“Then what?”
“It was always about—” I had never asked that question of myself. “It was always about—” No word came, no answer.
“Power.”
Source: After the Blue Hour
“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.”