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“There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.”

Source: A Salty Piece of Land

“There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.”

Men Feels Home Earth Brain Wise Strange Fool Birth Ties

Author:Charles Churchill

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

“There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.”

Ifs Rooms Dying Strange Wall Quiet Glasses

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“There's a strange thing goes on inside a bubble. It's hard to describe. People who are in it can't see outside of it, don't believe there is an outside.”

People Believe Hard Strange Goes On Don't Believe Bubbles Strange Things

Author:Lucy Prebble

Source: Enron

“There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.”

Looks Eye Able Dangerous Products Customers

Author:Francois-Henri Pinault

“There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.”

Strong Buddhism Aspect Fertility

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If you read Benjamin Franklin, who was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in the United States and the most distinguished representative of the movement here, he actually advised that the newly founded republic should block Germans and Swedes because they were too "swarthy" - dark.”

Ifs Should Country States Strong Dark United United States Figures Movement Protect Enlightenment Tradition Block Republic Representatives Founding Distinguished Franklin

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.”

Thinking Wells Spiritual Fighting Strong Wish Issues Generations Agree Victim Lust Mentality Laziness Sovereign Fortitude My Generation Victim Mentality

Author:Matt Chandler

“There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Kind Matter Reason Evil Views Principles Goodness Elements Highest Negative Stronger Unity Theology Surprising Say Anything Controversial

Author:Peter Adamson

“There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.”

I Can Stories Games Particular Creating Structure Puzzles Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Christopher Bollen

“There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public service as a profession just deciding that they're going to jump into it. The obvious figurehead of this whole "I am an idiot, therefore I can be a politician" is Donald Trump. People think that ignorance of a profession is somehow qualifying for that profession. It's utterly baffling.”

People Thinking Stupid Ignorance Politician Obvious Profession Idiot Public Service

Author:Steve Albini

“There's a substantial portion of my recorded repertoire that was learned for the recording sessions, and then basically forgotten. I wouldn't say it's the majority, but it's a fairly good chunk of it.”

Majority Forgotten Portions Session Chunks

Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin

“There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.”

World Sex Powerful Business Half Power Pornography Advertisements Advertising Agencies Business World Impetus

Author:Norman Mailer

Source: Cannibals and Christians

“There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.”

Thinking Want Writing Reason Law Design Harder Fundamentals Mess Code Programming Subtle Starting Over Programmers Cardinals

Author:Joel Spolsky

Source: Joel on Software

“There's a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor, because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.”

People Littles Sometimes Moments Actors Cameras Intimate Throwing Precision Intimate Moments

Author:Corey Reynolds

“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”

Love Nature Missing Travel Appreciate Appreciation Sunset Sunrise Day Appreciate Life Sunrise And Sunset Past Relationship Best Things In Life Are Free

Author:Jo Walton

“There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.”

Writing Strong Grace Written Wind Surprise Muscles Seats Accomplished Familiarity Sailor Riders Good Writing Horseback Strong Winds Horseback Riders

Author:Anne Bernays

“There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.”

Knows Kind Girl Energy Gone Fields Groove Energy Fields Already Gone

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.”

People Feels Levels Politician Institutions Suspicion

Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza

“There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night”

Night Sweet Beach San Francisco Stirring

Author:William Henry Irwin

“There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.”

Ifs Feels Dies Turns Forget Grew Sorrow Survival Hundred Rivers Fishes Drag Cheeks Hook Supper

Author:Alissa York

“There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been the one that has screwed that up. Once in while I indulge myself and try something else, and I keep my fingers crossed that it will come out good and there'll be enough people who will enjoy it, but that doesn't often happen.”

People Trying Enough Happens Enjoy Audience Fingers Agreement Tickets Indulge Tacit Fingers Crossed

Author:Woody Allen

“There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.”

Today White Accepting Criticism Males Agreement Satire Target Tacit

Author:Jack Nicholson

“There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him, or her) you fall in love so hard, so fast, that your soul is pulled out through your eyes. I like that story.”

Soul Hard Stories Eye Beautiful Fall Seeing Angel Falling In Love Tales Your Soul Angel Of Death

Author:Neil Gaiman

“There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability.”

Weakness Vulnerability

Author:Andre Alexis

“There's a tap on the door then. We all exchange looks, Tommy Falk's as uncertain as the rest of ours. No one moves, so I finally wipe my hands off on my pants, go to the door, and open it a crack. Sean stands on the other side, one hand in his trouser pocket, the other holding a loaf of bread. I wasn't prepared for it to be Sean, so my stomach does a neat little trick that feels like either hunger or escaping.”

Feels Looks Littles Doe Hands Moving Sides Doors Prepared Hunger Tricks Bread Pockets Cracks Stomach Pants Uncertain Wipe Neat Escaping Sean

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.”

Taste Mouths

Author:David Bowie

“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”

Years States Seems Air Streets Sweet Taste Longing Distance Hunger Teenage Teenage Years These Streets

Author:Ian Mcewan

Source: Saturday

“There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.”

Giving Cities Team Streets New York Findings Models Give Me Studios Stranger Filmmaker New York City Casual Follow Me Legitimacy

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.”

Ifs Eye Pain Fall Land Tears Refuse His Eyes

Author:Tim McGraw

“There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.”

Thinking Looks Reason Certain Ability Brain Rate Reason Why

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.”

Bigs Individual Levels Middle Devil Strategy Details Brilliant Tendencies Managers Phrases Zero Capability Timing Senior Superficial Marketplace Familiarity Big Picture

Author:Andy Grove

“There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I don't share that opinion. To me the world is a big place and I try to reach people everywhere. Listen, if I'm nothing else, I feel I've been a man of the people. I'm not going to pretend to be one of those snobby New York theater people.”

People Ifs Thinking Men World Feels Trying Bigs Opinion Share New York Rivers Theater East Tendencies Snobby Hudson River

Author:Frank Wildhorn

“There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat themselves a lot at the person, that will convince them. And that hasn't worked on things like immigration or trade deals.”

People Ifs Believe Persons Deals Trade Convinced Immigration Tendencies Repeats Convince

Author:Duncan Green

“There's a tendency for us to think that the secret of our success is something that is mystical and maybe someday my time will come. And it's certainly out there somewhere; it's around the bend; it's at the top of the hill.”

Thinking Secret Tendencies Hills My Time Someday Mystical Maybe Someday Around The Bend My Time Will Come Top Of The Hill

Author:John C. Maxwell

“There's a tendency in graphics to allow the trimming of certain parts. But I think that if you're open about your process, your methodology, such as introducing thresholds, introducing filters, techniques people use in research and data management, it's legitimate. It's legitimate to say, "We're only going to show data above this level, or between levels."”

People Thinking Management Introducing

Author:David Mccandless

“There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.”

People Giving Motivation Common Progress Harder Tendencies Disagree Attributes Common Ground

Author:Peter Welch

“There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.”

Wells War Guy Worry Gone Cold Concerned Unions Tendencies Hey Worried Soviet Cold War Soviet Union

Author:Russ Feingold

“There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap.”

People Way Quality Tvs Skills Mere Tendencies Mysterious Mortals Titles Assumption Wealthy Attributes Crap Impressive Appearing Mere Mortals Skills And Knowledge

Author:Arlene Dickinson

“There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.”

Ifs Thinking Long Certain Fall Habit Tendencies Staying Bad Habits

Author:Josh Duhamel

“There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.”

Looks Individual Focus Risk Security Investment Tendencies Isolation Investors

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.”

Want Kids School Company Educational Tendencies Software Uniforms Rebellious

Author:Seymour Papert

“There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.”

Thinking Young Fantasy Fashion Clothes Tendencies Designer

Author:Alexander Wang

“There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.”

People Whole Levels Struggle Treats Prejudice Tendencies Disability Lifting Pedestal

Author:Zach Anner

“There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.”

Tendencies Dirty Egotistical

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.”

Shows Sides Tendencies Revolutionary

Author:Ariel Dorfman

“There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of sharing of concern and understanding. I think players and teams have to come to that at some point in the season to become successful. Maybe not "personal friends," but they become teammates at the highest level of that term.”

Thinking Understanding Term Religious Successful Player Team Concern Caring Teammate Pure Love Charismatic Becoming Successful Agape

Author:Phil Jackson

“There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.”

Way Two Evil Party Danger Terrible Voting Lesser Evil Two Evils Lesser Of Two Evils

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.”

Knows Persons Joy Dark Secret Terrible

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

Source: Survivor: A Novel

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