It Is What It Is Quotes (page 98)

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• prevent
• canned
• preventive

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again. Anne Frank

• transport
• transportation
• transporting

What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation? Sylvia Day

• love
• believe
• she

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be Edith Wharton

• ask
• asks
• otherness

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

• bitter
• reading
• soul

It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a few will be able to savour this bitter fruit with impunity. Consequently, shrinking soul, turn on your heels and go back before penetrating further into such uncharted, perilous wastelands. Listen well to what I say: turn on your heels and go back, not forward,[...] Comte de Lautreamont

• humanity
• humans
• interests

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. Graham Greene

• love
• simplicity
• generosity

It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return. Charles Alexander Eastman

• one day
• expectation
• thinking

What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire. Charlaine Harris

• missing
• thinking
• path

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing. Jodi Picoult

• evening
• humanity
• church

What a revelation it was, to discover so many ordinary people in a place together, more conscious of God than of one another: not there to show off their hats or their clothes, but to pray, or at least to fulfill a religious obligation, not a human one. For even those who might have been there for no better motive than that they were obliged to be, were at least free from any of the self-conscious and human constraint which is never absent from a Protestant church where people are definitely... Thomas Merton

• lies
• common
• commons

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? Friedrich Nietzsche

• world
• earth
• thy

What could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. Herman Melville

• opportunity
• manly
• opportunism

what is opportunity to a man who can't use it. George Eliot

• mindfulness
• white
• giving

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds. Madeleine L'Engle

• reality
• end
• ended

It's eerie, but what's happening is the folks are staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor, on and on, completely trapped in a reality loop that never ends. Chuck Palahniuk