I Quotes
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“It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.”
Source: Abel on analysis: papers of N.H. Abel on Abelian and elliptic functions and the theory of series
“It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still.”
Source: The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen
“It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.”
“It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.”
“It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.”
“It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always in mind the immediate and temporary effects of particular changes, whereas I put these effects quite aside, and fix my whole attention on the long-term effects that will result from them.”
“It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.”
Source: Stealing Athena: A Novel
“It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.”
Source: The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts
“It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed....To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition...Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves--not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.”
“It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.”
“It appears to me that, even within the recollection of living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less regarded as a commanding and mighty power from heaven, a voice of authority, a law of holy life, but more and more as an easy going guide to future enjoyment, to a universal happiness and an indiscriminate salvation.”
Source: Christ in the Christian Year and in the Life of Man: Sermons for Laymen's Reading (Advent to Trinity)
“It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt.III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789. 1835
“It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.”
“It appears two things define an ideal Indian man: his hatred of Pakistan and his desire to be the first.”
Source: A Nation of Idiots
“It appears your betrothed is well on his way to falling hopelessly in love with you. Well done on that account."
It took Mariko a breath to see the truth beneath his
words. "Are you jealous?"
A pause. "Only a fool would not be.”
"That's ridiculous. Jealousy is for boorish people. Are you
a boor?"
"Of course I am. And of course I would be jealous. That
steaming heap of refuse doesn't have to sleep in a barred
cell. He can gaze at the moonlight whenever he wishes,” he
muttered.
"It's a shame the moon has eyes for another.”
Source: Smoke in the Sun
“It appears your son was 85 percent curry!”
Source: Friends Like These
“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.”
Source: Wealth of Nations (Abridged)
“It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.”
“It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.”
“It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain to be either proved or disproved by.. .comparison with observed facts.”
Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation
“It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.”
“It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.”
“It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.”
Source: Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
“It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.”
“it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have!”
“It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it.”
“It as an argument between the world of emotion versus the world of the intellect. It's the idea that you can suppress a person's mind and a person's experiences, mentally, psychologically and intellectually, but you can't completely quiet them to the point of dormancy and the emotionally life a person. You still have the heart and what the heart remembers and what the heart experiences. And even that isn't important that that comes across.”
“It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.”
“It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored.”
“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“It asks permission, which makes it the sweetest, sexiest touch I’ve ever known.”
Source: Kiss the Fae
“It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.”
Source: Van Gogh in Arles
“It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.”
“It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars
“It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.”
Source: The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”
“It (balancing the budget) is like protecting your virtue, you have to learn to say no!”
“It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.”
Source: The Romantic Manifesto
“It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.”
“It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions”
“It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.”
Source: The Giver Quartet: Son
“It be funny how the universe be blocking all your shots because you in the wrong game.”
“It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.”
“It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.”
“It bears repeating here that treating pain is not medically sound. Pain is a symptom, like fever. It has been elevated to the status of a separate disorder on the hypothesis that certain psychological factors cause the patient to exaggerate the pain. (page 152)”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“It bears repeating: in our experience, the plan review meetings are a key success factor in value stream transformation.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.”
“It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.”
“It beats where my parents first made out. They went to the West Yellowstone dump. They sat in the dark and waited for the bears to come out."
Max laughed, smiling over at her. "And then what?"
"About the time the bars in town closed, the grizzlies would chase away the black bears. Everyone who was parked at the edge of the dump would turn on their headlights and watch the grizzlies dig in the garbage."
"You Montanans really are a romantic bunch.”
Source: Lucky Shot