I Quotes
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“It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.”
“It is a change of approach that is much needed, study based on observation, not merely acceptance of blind doctrine.”
Source: Revelation
“It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.”
“It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven’t got a family of their own, they will invent one.”
“It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.”
“It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“It is a characteristic of sensuality not to do desperate things.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.”
“It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.”
Source: The Son of Tarzan: Mystery & Adventure Story
“It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.”
Source: The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
“It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
“It is a childish cavil wherewith in the matter of justification our adversaries do so greatly please themselves, exclaiming that we tread all Christian virtues under our feet and require nothing in Christians but faith, because we teach that faith alone justifieth; whereas by this speech we never meant to exclude either hope and charity from being always joined as inseparable mates with faith in the man that is justified, or works from being added as necessary duties, required at the hands of every justified man, but to show that faith is the only hand which putteth on Christ unto justification, and Christ the only garment which, being so put on, covereth the shame of our defiled natures, hideth the imperfections of our works, preserveth us blameless in the sight of God, before whom otherwise the very weakness of our faith were cause sufficient to make us culpable, yea, to shut us out from the kingdom of heaven, where nothing that is not absolute can enter.”
“It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.”
“It is a choice to invest in rules or people.”
Source: Nothing About Business
“It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.”
Source: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
“It is a clear and dazzling summer’s day in Vienna. You are standing in a skewed pentangle of lemony sunshine at the sharp corner of Augustiner Strasse and Augustinerbastei, across from the opera house, indolently watching the world pass by you, waiting for someone or something to catch and hold your attention, to generate a tremor of interest. There’s a curious frisson in the city’s atmosphere today, almost spring-like, though spring is long gone, but you recognize that slight vernal restlessness in the people going by, that stirring of potential in the air, that possibility of audacity – though what audacities they might be, here in Vienna, who can say? Still, your eyes are open, you are unusually poised, ready for anything – any crumb, any flung coin – that the world might casually toss your way.”
“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”
“It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size--mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures--a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.”
“It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.”
Source: Moab is My Washpot: An Autobiography
“It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.”
“It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.”
“It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.”
“It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war” – that is, do what worked the last time out. That does not give them enough credit. Rather they tend to fight the war they would like to fight or the one they expected to fight. But neither of those responses is usually sufficient. The foremost task of a general is to understand the nature of the war he or she faces – which often turns out to be a third way, neither the one preferred nor the one expected.”
Source: First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
“It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is a clusterfuck of stars.”
“It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“It is a combination of man’s mental acuity and self-importance to try and attach any meaning to life. Why can’t we just be an extremely fortunate life form randomly hurtling through space on an ideally-positioned rock? If life has any meaning, it is the basic biological one of passing on our genes to the next generation before we die.”
“It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.”
“It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
Source: Dr. Faustus
“It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.”
Source: Kushiel’s Legacy
“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.”
Source: The Last Chronicle of Barset
“It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.”
“It is a common belief that we breathe with our lungs alone, but in point of fact, the work of breathing is done by the whole body. The lungs play a passive role in the respiratory process. Their expansion is produced by an enlargement, mostly downward, of the thoracic cavity and they collapse when that cavity is reduced. Proper breathing involves the muscles of the head, neck, thorax, and abdomen. It can be shown that chronic tension in any part of the body's musculature interferes with the natural respiratory movements.
Breathing is a rhythmic activity. Normally a person at rest makes approximately 16 to 17 respiratory incursions a minute. The rate is higher in infants and in states of excitation. It is lower in sleep and in depressed persons. The depth of the respiratory wave is another factor which varies with emotional states. Breathing becomes shallow when we are frightened or anxious. It deepens with relaxation, pleasure and sleep. But above all, it is the quality of the respiratory movements that determines whether breathing is pleasurable or not. With each breath a wave can be seen to ascend and descend through the body. The inspiratory wave begins deep in the abdomen with a backward movement of the pelvis. This allows the belly to expand outward. The wave then moves upward as the rest of the body expands. The head moves very slightly forward to suck in the air while the nostrils dilate or the mouth opens. The expiratory wave begins in the upper part of the body and moves downward: the head drops back, the chest and abdomen collapse, and the pelvis rocks forward.
Breathing easily and fully is one of the basic pleasures of being alive. The pleasure is clearly experienced at the end of expiration when the descending wave fills the pelvis with a delicious sensation. In adults this sensation has a sexual quality, though it does not induce any genital feeling. The slight backward and forward movements of the pelvis, similar to the sexual movements, add to the pleasure. Though the rhythm of breathing is pronounced in the pelvic area, it is at the same time experienced by the total body as a feeling of fluidity, softness, lightness and excitement.
The importance of breathing need hardly be stressed. It provides the oxygen for the metabolic processes; literally it supports the fires of life. But breath as "pneuma" is also the spirit or soul. We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. That is why breathing is the dominant factor in the practice of Yoga.”
Source: The Voice of the Body
“It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.”
“It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.”
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“It is a common error to assume that the stock market price is always the proxy for the value of a company's shares.”
Source: Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money
“It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.”
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
Source: Sweet Thursday
“It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.”
“It is a common fact that passion is inspired in us by pain, and the act of enduring and overcoming it”
Source: Torn From the Inside Out
“It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.”
Source: Confessions of a Mask
“It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.”
“It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling to take no for an answer. A love affair with a pet hypothesis can waste years of precious time. There is very often no finally decisive yes, though quite often there can be a decisive no.”
Source: Advice to a young scientist
“It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.”
“It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.”
Source: The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon
“It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.”