I Quotes
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“It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.”
Source: On Love: A Novel
“It was no longer light versus the dark, but one spectrum of light against another.”
Source: Scenting Hallowed Blood
“It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me.”
Source: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.”
Source: Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
“It was no more than a single grain of sand from a mountain of sins Halsey yeah to atone for, and it didn't change a thing for Kurt, but she had to start somewhere.”
Source: Halo: Glasslands
“It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.”
“It was no struggle to get him back to his room with the excuse I wanted to hear his enthralling music again before returning to my dorm. He, the sweet dope, didn't understand I wanted to be the one making it with an orchestra of bedsprings.”
Source: The Temptation of Eden
“It was no surprise that her sewing was so uneven, for to make even stiches the seamstress herself had to be steady. Abigail tended to hunch over her patchwork, her fingers and thread a snarl, and sew a few stiches before abandoning it to look down the road towards the houses near the general store, or to get up for a drink of water.”
Source: The Last Runaway
“It was no thought or word that called culture into being, but a
tool or a weapon. After the stone axe we needed song and story
to remember innocence, to record effect- and so to describe
the limits, to say what can be done without damage.”
“It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.”
Source: Artemis Fowl
“It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.”
“It was no use beginning to dispute with such indulged, unreasoning creatures: so I held my peace. I was accustomed, now, to keeping silence when things distasteful to my ear were uttered; and now, too, I was used to wearing a placid smiling countenance when my heart was bitter within me.”
Source: Agnes Grey
“It was no waste of time. You learned. You grew. You’ll do better next time.”
“It was no way to think about her best friend’s boyfriend. But every time she saw Andy, her body reacted.
My gaydar is defective, she thought grimly.”
Source: Clothing Optional
“It was nobody’s choice. It was a chemical reaction. I had to cut it. It basically fell out. Somebody had said to me that it was just because, you know, you’re trying to make Gail, you know, because she’s just now coming out of the closet…Not even for 2 seconds would we ever do that. It literally was a really bad hair experience.”
“It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.”
“It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.”
“It was normal for it to rain, but in October- who could forget the rains of October?- now this disturbingly silent rain was falling. That was so nebulous that it was pretty; that, if it had not been wet, no one would have believed it was raining; that was so slow that it was possible to follow its fall with one's eyes. That which villagers called 'the rains of October' was the accumulation of the serenity of such a life. Eyes almost broke into tears on looking at the sun subdividing itself, at the end of the afternoon, in each drop of that snail's-pace precipitation, as if the great star had dissolved each day an infinitesimal bit more.”
Source: The Whistler
“It was normal to drink two pots of coffee during an extreme night shift.”
“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”
Source: For You
“It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice way of having a bed, but we would all be glad of the wooden curtains about us at night if we lived in such a cottage, on the side of a hill along which the wind swept like a wild river. Through the cottage it would be streaming all night long. And a poor woman with a cough, or a man who has been out in the cold all day, is very glad of such a place to lie in, and leave the the rest of the house to the wind and the fairies.”
“It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.”
“It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.”
“It was not a coincidence. It was not deja vu. It was destiny. It was my destiny to meet her.”
Source: The Doppelgänger
“It was not a conspiratorial wink, nor did Hornblower attempt the hopeless task of trying to pretend he stuffed hot greasy sausages into his pockets every day of his life; the wink simply dared the old gentleman to comment on or even think of the remarkable act.”
“It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.”
“It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.”
“It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.”
“It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.”
Source: Girl With a Pearl Earring
“It was not a hunt for a young princess’s amusement — it was a dance of life and death, a dance of beginning and end.”
Source: Queen of Archers
“It was not a life, if lived without love.”
“It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.”
Source: Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider
“It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.”
Source: Banner in the sky
“It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear.
It was a man.
His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.”
Source: East
“It was not a pretty sight, all these pale, gangly, pimpled youths, in a frenzy of hunger and sexual frustration, shredding bread.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.”
“It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“It was not...a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smolering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion.”
Source: The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker
“It was not a Zodiac attack until the Zodiac said it was a Zodiac attack.”
Source: Hunted: The Zodiac Murders
“It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.”
“It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around.”
Source: Earth Awakens
“It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human invention that he is declared to have been slain at this time. These attempts to connect the crucifixion with the Passover afford the strongest proof that it is a myth.”
“It was not, after all, so easy to die. Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool wind of his face, was so precious. To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. At the same time he thought that he would not be able to go on, and knew he must. The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air. . . .”
“It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.”
“It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that”
“It was not always possible to take that war seriously. In the first place I could not understand why we, the French, and the English were fighting the Germans and the Austrians. Being in vaudeville all of my life had made me international-minded. I had met too many kindly German performers—singers and acrobats and musicians—to believe they could be as evil as they were being portrayed in our newspapers. Having known Germans, Japanese jugglers, Chinese magicians, Italian tenors, Swiss yodelers and bell-ringers, Irish, Jewish, and Dutch comedians, British dancers, and whirling dervishes from India, I believed people from everywhere in the world were about the same. Not as individuals, of course, but taken as a group.”
Source: My Wonderful World Of Slapstick
“It was not always the case that a large minority comprising the weakest members of society wore special clothes, were freed from the routines of work and of many constraints on their behaviour and were able to devote much of their time to play. It should be remembered that childhood is not a natural occurrence. There was a time when children were treated like small adults. Childhood is an invention, a social construct, made possible by society as it increased in sophistication and resource.”
Source: The Child in Time
“It was not an adventure; it was my life.”
“It was not an easy task: her soul - her sad, timid, self-effacing soul - lay concealed in the depths of her bowels and was ashamed to show itself.”
“It was not an end, it was a beginging”