It Is What It Is Quotes (page 95)

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• humanity
• humanness
• humanities

It is a human tendency tobecome what you attack. Scott Adams

• giving
• silence
• thinking

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. Henry David Thoreau

• art
• ours
• renew

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see. Anais Nin

• expectation
• hello
• random

What did you say, Arthur?"I said, how the hell did you get here?"I was a row of dots flowing randomly through the Universe. Have you met Thor? He makes thunder."Hello," said Arthur. "I expect that must be very interesting."Hi," said Thor, "it is. Douglas Adams

• expectation
• look
• looked

It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for. Neal Stephenson

• life
• death
• power

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again? Audre Lorde

• sister
• time
• sisters

What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that secondhand overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship! Mervyn Peake

• imagination
• imagine

What year is it in your imagination? Lynda Barry

• different
• dead
• name

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi

• kindness
• business
• feeling

..It would ’a’ been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others. Mark Twain

• people
• world
• saying

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault! Haruki Murakami

• forgiveness
• winning
• real

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble. Bjarne Stroustrup

• color
• tree
• him

What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. "Always, always," it sighed, "faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love. Peter S. Beagle

• guilty
• just
• fairs

…it’s better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just. Plato

• feeling
• saying
• pitiful

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. Virginia Woolf