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“It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.”

Play Feelings Religion Opportunity Games Winning Hurt Situation Impossible Cards Disagree Rude Hurt Feelings Mug Being Rude

Author:Daniel Dennett

“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.”

Doe Winning Growth Born Environment Mystery Birth Argument Boring Our Environment Simplify

Author:John Irving

Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany

“It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.”

Winning Situation Comedy Stressful

Author:Jordan Peele

“It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.”

World Happens Things Happen Unfair Noir

Author:Rob Thomas

“It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.”

People War Gains Terrorism Scales Objectives Innocent Assumption Nonsense

Author:Gene Sharp

“It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.”

Lost Schedules Lost Myself

Author:Roger Meddows Taylor

“It's a normal way of doing business.”

Way Normal Election

Author:Newt Gingrich

“It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.”

People Funny Talking Millions Mouths Dialogue Dumb

Author:Derek Jameson

“It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me.”

Shows Pain Enjoy Audience Fronts Ass Show Business Only Time Reacting

Author:Elaine Stritch

“It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.”

God Paradise Presence Of God

Author:Billy Graham

“It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.”

Wisdom Spiritual Path Our Lives Limits Conscious Paradox Limitless Spiritual Path

Author:Guy Finley

“It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.”

Thinking Children Persons Parent Television Tvs Type Neighborhood Paradox Associates Undesirable

Author:Randall Wright

“It's a part of hip-hop, rave culture. But moving on from whistles, in the future we want to release Greco-Roman wine. Our friends are getting too old to go clubbing, but they will still have to buy our wine if we release it.”

Moving Culture Wine Rave

Author:Joe Goddard

“It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.”

People Thinking Giving Self Film Passion Gains Negative Obsession Thinking About You Negative Experiences

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek to undermine their independence in every way possible. With seductive 'entitlements' like guaranteed retirement, health care, nutrition, education, and jobs, liberals attempt to lure the middle class into dependence on the state. But when it comes to those who are truly incompetent, those whose mental afflictions render them unable to manage their lives at all, liberals are suddenly transformed into absolutists for personal autonomy.”

“It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?”

Men Culture Bits Grief Cry Tears Sorrow Draws Lips Disappointment Ashamed Cried Shed Crap Beard Vikings Norwegians Stiff Upper Lip

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“It's a perfect day for letting go.”

Perfect Crazy Letting Go Mad Perfect Days

Author:Robert Smith

“It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine”

Perfect Blue Glorious Australia Sunshine Perfect Days

Author:Christopher Martin-Jenkins

“It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.”

Moments God Today Spirit Mother Perfect Known Inspire Divine Ancient Feminine Cosmic Goddess Ancient Times Divine Feminine Great Mother Perfect Moments

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

Source: Simple Abundance

“It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.”

Want Humans Water Instinct

Author:Stone Gossard

“It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.”

Position

Author:Ted Rall

“It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.”

Found Personality Boring Traits Concentrating Kernel Personality Traits

Author:Linus Torvalds

“It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.”

Thinking Kids Causes Principles Queens Swear Petty Allegiance Idiotic Hereditary

Author:Elvis Costello

“It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.”

Young Actors British Phenomenon Young Actors

Author:Michael Douglas

“It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.”

States Form Culture United United States Claims Innovation Corporations Phenomenon Patents Biodiversity Other Cultures

Author:Vandana Shiva

“It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.”

Ifs World Philosophy Practice Life Philosophy Changing The World Changing Your Life

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.”

People Ends States United United States Issues Crime Ignorance Fool Penalties Death Penalty Phony

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.”

Different Spiritual Challenges Study Week Symphony

Author:Gustavo Dudamel

“It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.”

Want Light Lasts Turns Left Sex Sides Dark Worry Struggle Fire Sorrow Empty Stronger Tired Finals Rage Spots Ease Urges Bullets Thirst Suicidal Halfway Rip Caverns

Author:Jean Hegland

“It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.”

Way Games Pieces Cake

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.”

Ifs Needs Care Courses Sports Water Pieces Development Property Golf Take Care Golf Course

Author:Tom Kite

“It's a piece that is so interactive, and relies so much on these five men in the room, that I think will appeal to the life experiences every person has, in some small way. Every aspect of the play will in some way touch somebody or they'll know someone that has a likeness... very representative of real life.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Persons Real Play Rooms Five Pieces Aspect Real Life Appeals Rely Life Experience Representatives Interactive

Author:Sean Mahon

“It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!”

Feels Years Body Careers Dog Your Body Reverse Knuckleballs

Author:R.A. Dickey

“IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.”

Photography Definitions Pitfalls

Author:Jeff Wall

“It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.”

“It's a pity if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.”

Ifs Art Chance Share Fit Pity Desirable Chances Are

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.”

Men Birth Pity Vocation

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”

Dream Imagine Genius Snow Pity Compare

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

Source: The Gift

“It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.”

People Picks Bible Pity

Author:Graham Greene

Source: A Burnt-Out Case

“It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.”

Thinking I Can Felt Enjoy Capacity Disappear Pity Spectators Mixing

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.”

Sentences Trials Pity

Author:Stjepan Mesic

“It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.”

Years Pity Radical Tennis Drains Radical Change

Author:Marat Safin

“It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex.”

Sex Negative Pity Connotation

Author:Annie Sprinkle

“It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.”

Pity Piano Tunes Pianist

Author:Rene Coty

“It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game”

Two Play Three Games Pity Self Pity Bad Games

Author:Jose Mourinho

“It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.”

Bird Pity Mislead

Author:Halldór Laxness

Source: Christianity at Glacier

“It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality.”

Humans Stills Reality Age Earth Process Climate Change Pity Chemicals Dominance

Author:Paul J. Crutzen

“It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.”

Age Young Youth Pity

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.”

Ifs Bases

Author:Macaulay Culkin

“It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor”

Needs Doctors Sarcasm Sarcastic Plastic Surgeons Plastic Surgeons

Author:John Cleese

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