It Is What It Is Quotes (page 89)

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• world
• little
• worldly

What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world! Nathaniel Hawthorne

• undertakings
• none
• rid

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors. Samuel Beckett

• life
• good
• money

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life. Paulo Coelho

• good
• enough
• enough is enough

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Carl Rogers

• business
• busy
• look

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's. Agatha Christie

• snow
• enough
• white

What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow? William Shakespeare

• you me
• am
• make

It is you who makes me see what I really am. Henry Rollins

• wishes
• thinking
• school

It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say. Nicholas Sparks

• biology
• death
• philosophical

What happens when an animal or person dies? Something seems to have departed--something like a vital spark that makes the difference between life and death. In the nineteenth century, philosophers believed that there really was such a thing and called it the lan vital, or vital spirit. But when twentieth century science began to unravel the mysteries of how living things work and reproduce, the idea was abandoned and people now accept that there is nothing more to being alive than complex,... Susan Blackmore

• life
• feeling
• thoughts

It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. Rhonda Byrne

• maybe
• meanness
• only

What I mean is... maybe it's only us... William Golding

• live future
• world
• to live

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it. Irvine Welsh

• love
• him
• she

It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not? Emily Bronte

• encouraging
• respect
• encouragement

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those... Peggy Noonan

• maturity
• new
• heart

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugne de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen... Honore de Balzac