I Quotes
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“It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.”
“It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“It is a basic human need that everyone wants to
live a happy life. For this, one has to experience
real happiness. The so-called happiness that one
experiences by having money, power, and
indulging in sensual pleasures is not real
happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting.
For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness,
one has to make a journey deep within oneself and
get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper
levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at
the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy
at the surface level of the mind prove futile.”
Source: Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom
“It is a basic tenet of the warrior code I live by that people—not technology—are tasked with making the world a better place.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer
“It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.”
“It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.”
“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.”
Source: The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries
“It is a beautiful gift to be a creator.”
Source: Awakening in the 21st Century
“It is a beautiful offering to Me when you lay down your judgement and choose compassion. When you love others the way I love you, when you hold back the consequences they could have deserved, and when you treat them the way you’d like to be treated, the you shall receive mercy as well.”
Source: A Beautiful Offering: Returning God's Love with Your Life
“It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!”
Source: Black Prophetic Fire
“It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.”
Source: Specimen Days & Collect
“It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist.”
“It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.”
“It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.”
“It is a better thing by far that the lad should break his neck, than that you should break his spirit.”
“It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.”
“It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way.”
“It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.”
“It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.”
“It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.”
“It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher class,no matter what race you are, you'll probably mess up. Maybe get yelled at. But there are worse things. Like keeping your dignity safe at home, while the world goes to hell.”
Source: Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
“It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.”
“It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.”
“It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.”
“It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.”
“It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.”
“It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”
“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”
“It is a bit of a cliché to characterize life as a rambling journey on which we can alter our course at any given time--by the slightest turn of the wheel, the wisdom goes, we influence the chain of events and thus recast our destiny with new cohorts, circumstances, and discoveries. But for the most of us, life is nothing like that. Instead, we have a few brief periods when we are offered a handful of discrete options. Do I take this job or that job? In Chicago or New York? Do I join this circle of friends or that one, and with whom do I go home at the end of the night? And does one make time for children now? Or later? Or later still?
In that sense, life is less like a journey than it is a game of honeymoon bridge. In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions--we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made shape our lives for decades to come.”
Source: Rules of Civility
“It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.”
“It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.”
“it is
a bitter thing to be
the disposable animal,
a bitter thing.”
Source: The Wild Iris
“It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.”
Source: On Liberty
“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.”
Source: Almost French
“It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.”
“It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.”
“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic.”
“It is a blessed bliss to live to be old.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is a blessed gift to witness the beauty of each day.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.”
Source: The Gods, and Other Lectures
“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.”
Source: Letters Papers from Prison
“It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.”
Source: All Souls Trilogy
“It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.”
“It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.”