It Is What It Is Quotes (page 63)

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• time
• saying
• short

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter. Kate DiCamillo

• confused
• confuses
• spread

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. Salvador Dali

• question
• humanity
• hard

What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. Albert Einstein

• happy
• money
• giving

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it... Jane Austen

• manly
• animal
• brother

What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals,...is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization...it is man's enormous appetite for suffering. Georges Duhamel

• change
• great
• greatness

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes. Graham Greene

• achievement
• psychology
• difficult

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. Abraham Maslow

• she
• work
• may

It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions will hereafter tend to promote the general distress of the work, and how she will, probably, contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last volume is capable -- whether by her imprudence, vulgarity, or jealousy -- whether by intercepting her letters, ruining her character, or turning her out of doors. Jane Austen

• question
• made it
• made

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on. B. F. Skinner

• different
• moon
• saying

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. Arthur Conan Doyle

• drinking
• feeling
• manly

What precipices are sloth and pleasure! To do nothing is a sorry resolve to take; are you aware of that? To live in indolence on the goods of others, to be useless, that is to say, injurious! This leads straight to the depths of misery. Woe to the man who would be a parasite! He will become vermin! Ah, it does not please you to work! Ah, you have but one thought--to drink well, to eat well, and sleep well. You will drink water; you will eat black bread; you will sleep on a plank, with fetters... Victor Hugo

• learning
• wrong
• doings

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? Mark Twain

• beautiful
• beauty
• good

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy

• knowledge
• intellectual
• manly

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less. Thomas Sowell

• success
• wellness
• well

...it is well know that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. Terry Prachett