I Quotes
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“It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.”
Source: Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)
“It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America.”
“It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.”
“It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.”
“It is a conundrum, this reality of which we speak.
And if you do not find joy in the puzzle itself, you will only have
isolated moments of stamped-and-approved joy
("I graduated!" "I got the job!" "I'm getting married!" "I won the prize!"
"See, I have the picture!" "It's posted online!" "It got so many likes!")
and those scrumptious, unexpected ones that take you by surprise--
a sunset, a leaf dancing in the wind,
a baby's glee with a wayward bubble,
fireworks.
As I often say, I am ultimately drawn to--
and stay closest to--
the people who can be satisfied with a state of dissatisfaction, who can
find joy in the puzzle itself, who want
to play with the puzzle--gnaw
on the conundrum--more than they want
to finish it.”
“It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.”
“It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.”
“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow’s fall”
Source: Wolf Willow
“It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.”
“It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.”
Source: Collected Works
“It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.”
“It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.”
“It is a crowning moment to witness someone realise that you love yourself more than you love them. That you want yourself more than you want them. I will become a collector of such crowns, they shall line my walls and windows.”
“It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.”
“It is a cruel, cruel world,
Even for peace you gotta be a fighter.
Not all fighters are lovers,
But every true lover is a natural fighter.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...
“It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.”
Source: The House at Riverton: A Novel
“It is a crushing moment when you realize that your life has either been a series of huge mistakes, or worse; it hasn’t.”
“It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.”
“It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible.”
“It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through”
“It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.”
Source: The Arrogance of Power
“It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.”
Source: Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
Source: The mortgaged heart
“It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.”
Source: The Gathering Storm
“It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian 'chinanto/mnigs' which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ks' which kill cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.”
Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
“It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox
“It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.”
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously”
Source: A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
“It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).”
“It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belong to the same species, and therefore understand each other. Small boys, on the other hand, do not understand girls, and therefore being looked after by one is a little like a hamster being looked after by a shark. If you are a small boy, it may be some consolation to you to know that even large boys do not understand girls, and girls, by and large, do not understand boys. This makes adult life very interesting.”
Source: The Gates
“It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.”
“It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.”
“It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.”
Source: On Religion
“It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.”
Source: The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c
“It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.”
Source: Annotated Three Men in a Boat with English Grammar Exercises: by Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind.”
Source: Honoring the Self
“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.”
“It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.”
“It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.”
“It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“It is a curious sensation, being a customer where you have been a slave's slave.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more