I Quotes
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“It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth.”
Source: 1829-1836
“It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.”
“It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness").
[Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]”
“It becomes an emperor to die standing.”
“It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.”
“It becomes apparent that it would be impossible to feel alone as we are intimately connected to a thriving life-force.”
Source: Love, Devotion, and Longing
“It becomes clear when you love silence, boredom and hard work. For the wise it's play. For the ordinary it's hell.”
“It becomes dramatically instructive under overcrowded conditions. The ghetto is lethal. Psychic stresses of overcrowding create pressures which will erupt. The city is an attempt to manage these forces. The social forms by which cities make the attempt are worth study. Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with
a smile.”
“It becomes easy to leave once you realize you didn't belong there.”
“It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God.”
Source: Meditations on the cross
“It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.”
“It becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins.”
Source: Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
“It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.”
“It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.”
“It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors." But I've always been somebody who is much more invested in who I am playing than how they look.”
“It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.”
“It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.”
“It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.”
“It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.”
“It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind.”
“It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.”
“It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.”
“It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.”
Source: The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr
“It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.”
“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”
“It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.”
“It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.”
Source: Collected Poems
“It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.”
“It becomes tough only if you reject the moment. It becomes smooth if you don’t.”
“It becomes tricky, and you start to think about the cramps rather than just actually what you're trying to do on the court, which is obviously win the match.”
“It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.”
“It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.”
Source: Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life
“It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.”
Source: Morte D'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table
“It began as a mistake.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.”
“It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.”
“It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.”
“It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by, we recognized that the justice we expected and hoped for was not about to be achieved.”
“It began in images and it ended in symbolism.”
“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“It began long ago,
when God created the stars
when shadows were made of light
when angels embraced the horizon
when souls danced over this realm
then, you were mine...
(Excerpted from In bliss, chapter Pain)”
“It began of nothing and in nothing ends.”
“It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]”
“It began raining harder and my thoughts drifted towards the waterfall from the night before. I wondered if the water might work itself into a frenzy around me and drag me down the cliff with it. Flash floods were common in this type of landscape; they came every time it rained. It kept coming down, harder and harder. I cozied up closer to the frigid rock and buried myself deeper in my tank top. By this point, the rain was building into streams and flowing off the rocks around me. I sat there in the fetal position, wondering if the rain was going to sweep me from my feeble perch and down into the dark abyss.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.”
“It began to dawn on me then ... all the time I was being reminded of something, I didn’t know quite what, and I was lying awake every night trying to remember what it was, and even now I can’t say much about it, but it is like what the other Rachel, and Olga, and Simon, used to tell me of how the three were taught by people just coming past, and how they learned things without there being actual lessons and timetables most of the time. I keep meeting people, and all of them seem to know at once who I am and what to tell me or where to take me. That is very peculiar. Something peculiar is going on, but I don’t know what.”
Source: Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
“It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.”
Source: Wise Blood
“It began to feel as if she could take my soul instead… if there was such a thing for a demon like me. The thought was terrifying. But it was also… intoxicating.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“It began to rain in that rushed and urgent way that it rains in New York.”
Source: In the Cut