It Is What It Is Quotes (page 99)

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• thinking
• comforting
• time

It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves. Jane Austen

• confused
• evening
• serious

what I am after in this dispute is to me something serious, necessary, and indeed eternal, something of such a kind and such importance that it ought to be asserted and defended to the death, even if the whole world had not only to be thrown into strife and confusion, but actually to return to total chaos and be reduced to nothingness. Martin Luther

• fear
• true
• saying

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find. Jeanette Winterson

• art
• writing
• wellness

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well. Edward Abbey

• reading
• you me
• life

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life. Walt Whitman

• people
• each
• loyal

It is astonishing what can be done when people are truly loyal to each other and eager to meet each other's needs. Orson Scott Card

• discovered
• discovers
• what if

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are. Orson Scott Card

• powerful
• power
• saying

What this power is I cannot say. All I know it exists Alexander Graham Bell

• popular
• useless
• booming

What is more useless than the popular novel that has passed its boom! Holbrook Jackson

• beautiful
• beauty
• breakfast

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. Edith Wharton

• wisdom
• engagement
• wellness

What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not. L. M. Montgomery

• true
• saying
• manly

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646 Charles Dickens

• bad
• candid
• wellness

What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly. Voltaire

• relationship
• life
• people

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a... Agatha Christie

• hair
• she
• question

What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Trojan. Nick Hornby