I Quotes
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“It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.”
“It was with great sadness that she realised that her brother would be six forever, but when she held that thought, she also made an effort to smile.”
Source: The Book Thief
“It was with horror that I learned of the abominable terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington in which so many innocent people have lost their lives. My government staunchly condemns these acts of terrorism. The German people are at the side of the United States of America in this difficult hour. I wish to express my deep-felt condolences and complete solidarity to you and the American people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.”
“It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.”
Source: The London novels: City of spades. Absolute beginners. Mr. Love and Justice
“It was with the benefit of hindsight I realized I had been hired into a known biologically toxic job.”
Source: Night Shift Recovery
“It was with the benefit of hindsight that I realized high altitude astronomy was the most toxic employer I ever worked for.”
“It was with the benefit of hindsight that I realized the extensive behavioral issues that I had been documenting in high altitude workers was a known aspect of the biological toxicity of astronomical observatories.”
“It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.”
“It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.”
“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.”
Source: Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein
“It was wonderful how food brought men of different classes and kinds together, from the old to the young, from workers to their superiors.”
Source: The Wedding Tamasha
“It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!”
“It was wonderful, of course-- ham with mustard is a meal of glory.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“It was wonderful to be able to play a character who had so many colors and who was able to play comedy, to play incredibly vulnerable, which he did a lot of the time, to play the love story, and to play the relationship with the son, which is quite unusual. That's a gift to me, as an actor.”
“It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.”
“It was wonderful to see the sparkle back in her eyes. He wanted to keep it there. For the first time in years he’d found himself actually caring about how someone else felt. He’d been spending so much time being a tough successful businessman that he’d almost forgotten how pleasurable it was to help make other people happy.”
Source: Lie to me
“It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“It was wondrous. Almost unbelievable. Like champagne bubbles, but in her soul. She felt effervescent. And so in love.”
Source: Toxic Game
“It was work, day after day of it.
Witchcraft is the same. I have laboured for centuries and still I have
not mastered it.”
Source: Circe
“It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder.”
“It was worth it.”
Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“It was worth it," Faye says after school while she walks me to my car. "It's not fair that you take all the shit for this while the guys get to walk around like nothing happened. They're just as much to blame."
"I'm the one who started it," I say, kicking a beer cap across the parking lot with my shoe. "If I hadn't started it, nothing would have happened.
"Don't let them off the hook so easily," Faye snaps. "They were coming to you. It takes two to have sex. So don't defend them.”
Source: Firsts
“It was worth it to try, and risk failing, because every day that I showed up to do the work, I proved to myself that I was enough as I was, in the here and now: injured, recovering, working toward a goal, competing, or never competing again. I was worth just as much as I was before the injury, and before my second surgery.”
Source: Out and Back
“It was worth it. You looked... happy.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“It was worth the battle to restrain them to hear her increasingly ragged gasps, to feel the desperation mount within her and know it wasn't him driving, wasn't him orchestrating and controlling her that made her so.
As they moved together, her riding him, him thrusting just enough to appease them both, to let passion flow unimpeded on its course, as the familiar landscape of sexual delight flowered around them, as passion wound through them and tightened its snare, he was distantly aware of how different the familiar was.
How much more layered with feeling, with meaning. With emotion.
The end, when it came, was an implosion of sensation, finer, sharper, reaching more deeply than any such moment before.
With a cry, high, triumphant, and primarily female, she shattered in his arms; the contractions of her sheath caught him, drew him on. Release swept him, and he cried her name, held her down, his grip unforgiving as he shuddered beneath her.”
Source: The Taste of Innocence
“It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all this people - good for nothing - are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.”
Source: Frida by Frida: Selection of Letters and Texts
“It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.”
“It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.”
“It was written without fear and without research.”
Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
“It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by, he said. Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.”
“It was wrong. It was wrong to pay the same dime yet have to walk to the back of the bus. It was wrong to have to pass a "white" school to go to a "colored" school. It was wrong to have Colored and White signs. It was wrong that Emmett Till was murdered. It was wrong that the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was dynamited. It was wrong that Medgar Evers was shot in the back and bled to death in his own driveway. And whatever was not right could be, if not corrected, then certainly reproved by people with kinder hearts, better minds and the courage to speak out for their beliefs.”
Source: Acolytes
“It was wrong. Szabo insiders knew that the whole thing was unspeakable, but they did it anyway. Because they believed sincerely at that point that the enemy was already within. War was upon them. It just hadn’t been declared yet.”
“It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century”
“It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
“It was wrong to do this," said the angel.
"You should live like a flower,
Holding malice like a puppy,
Waging war like a lambkin."
"Not so," quoth the man
Who had no fear of spirits;
"It is only wrong for angels
Who can live like the flowers,
Holding malice like the puppies,
Waging war like the lambkins.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
“It was wrong. But it was worth it.”
“It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.”
“It was yet another reason to stand in awe of them. I think that you should be in awe of anyone who reaches the age of sixty. You've got to be brave to live through so many years.
I wondered why, if it's so easy to leave the game, why we carry on playing it?”
Source: If You Tell Me to Come, I'll Drop Everything, Just Tell Me to Come
“It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.”
Source: The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)
“It was you," I say softly. "It's always you I think about."
The intensity in his gaze took my breath away. I could feel him. Every part of him. His soul was sewn to mine. His heated blood flowed through my veins. I'd thought that I had been close to my mother, and I was, but not like this. Chase and I barely touched- our hands, mouths, knees- but there was no part of me that was not his.”
Source: Article 5
“It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“It was you, it was always and forever will be you.”
Source: Angel
“It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?”
“It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.”
Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“It was you that chose your due,
You built a maze you can't get through.
I tried to help you all I can,
Now I can't do nuttin' for you, man!”
“It was you that led me to the musical that's everything to me. You held my hands so that I can enter the world that I could only watch. When I fell, you helped me stand up. When the path was closed, you opened it up. You're that kind of person to me.”
“It was you who said that a new illumination, one of reason and ethics and genuine compassion, had come again, after dark centuries of bloody religion, to give forth not only its light but its warmth.”
Source: The Vampire Armand
“It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.”
“It was your body....that danced at your first drum circle; it was your body that gave birth to your child; it was your body that got down and dirty in the back seat of your dad's station wagon; it was your body that shivered, sweated, clasped its hands, fell to its knees, wept, and laughed the first time you felt the presence of the goddess in your life.”
Source: The Body Sacred