I Quotes
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“It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.”
Source: Treadmill to Oblivion
“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
“It was once stated that God didn't play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn't see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them. They never stood a chance, seeing that Destiny was on both sides of the board.”
“It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.”
Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
“It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.”
Source: Tell No One / Gone For Good
“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”
Source: Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“It was one of Hulu's first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response. I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.”
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“It was one of the best goals I've seen this millenium.”
“It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.”
Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House
“It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.”
“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”
“It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.’ (Wulf)”
Source: Kiss of the Night
“It was one of the few stories we told the same way.”
Source: Gone Girl
“It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.”
“It was one of the fringe benefits of living for so many years essentially alienated from the world around him; He could easily believe that he was right and the world was wrong.”
“It was one of the great ironies of my life that I’d inherited all of my mother’s features, but none of the magic with which they’d come together on her face. She’d been beautiful. I was odd. Odd-looking, oddly quiet, always the odd one out.”
“It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going to have a democratic form of government, people had to be able to read and understand complicated ideas on their own.”
“It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had in my life to meet Paul McCartney. It was phenomenal.”
“It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.”
“It was one of the many intolerable burdens of their womanhood that plagued their existence, and one which they continued to inflict on their own daughters despite all the misery it caused them in every stage of their lives.”
Source: A Mouth Full of Salt
“It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.”
“It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.”
Source: Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories
“It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.”
“It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.”
“It was one of the nights which do not come often in a lifetime, and which people never forget. The darkness seems full of meaning; the hush, full of sound. God is beyond, holding the sunrise in his right hand, holding the sun of our earthly hopes as well; will it dawn in sorrow or in joy? We dare not ask; we can only wait.”
Source: What Katy Did Next
“It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.”
Source: Queens' Play: The Lymond Chronicles Book Two
“It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperienced, and I thought certain standards were respected and understood.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell."”
“It was one of the things that she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”
Source: The Wizard Heir
“It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy”
“It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like crystal. The trees, decked out in frost, seem to have sweated ice; the earth resounds beneath one's feet; the tiniest sounds carry a long way in the dry air; the blue sky is bright as a mirror, and the sun moves through space in icy brilliance, casting on the frozen world rays which bestow no warmth upon anything.”
Source: Bel-Ami
“It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle.”
Source: The Hawk and the Dove
“It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.”
Source: Classic Wodehouse
“It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.”
“It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred miles a second, and I was just sitting back, feeling the growing paranoia inside of me.”
“It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.”
Source: The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)
“It was one of those decisions that shouldn't have been so easy to get so wrong. Go on your own or take the half wasted waif. She was wearing denim hotpants with a pink vest top, and was hanging off his arm, more for stability than closeness, so he propped her up against the wall next to the counter and reached inside his coat pocket for his badge. It was definitely his badge, he clearly remembered stealing it two years before whilst in California.”
Source: Gods Just Want To Have Fun
“It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.”
“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“It was one of those exuberant peaches that meet you halfway, so to speak, and are all over you in a moment.”
Source: The Chronicles of Clovis
“It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something.”
Source: Bel-Ami
“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“It was one of those friendships that came on quick, like the heat on a July day, and long after midnight you could still feel its sticky film on your skin as you lie awake in your room, the fan blowing in what remained of the scorched hours, and realize for the first time in your peep of a life that no one is ever truly alone.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“It was one of those golden July afternoons stolen from spring, and they sat outside in T-shirts drinking beer.”
Source: The Life to Come
“It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.”
Source: The Swiss Family Robinson: Or, Adventures in a Desert Island. Six Coloured Engravings on Steel
“It was one of those heady, blue-crystal days we knew well on the peninsula, days that made it seem as if summer could last forever. The bay glittered as if dusted with diamonds. In the distance, the Olympics glittered, too, their highest peaks frosted with snow, vivid against the sky.”
Source: The Witch's Kind