I Quotes
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“It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)”
Source: Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot
“It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.”
“It is a dead heart.
It is inside of me.
It is a stranger
yet once it was agreeable,
opening and closing like a clam.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.”
Source: Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life
“It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.”
“It is a deep and quiet tragedy of our time that the sacred has been exiled from the ordinary. That the holy has been placed on high shelves, reserved for sanctuaries and ceremonies, far removed from the steaming of a teacup, the folding of laundry, the brushing of a child’s hair. But this is not how it has always been. Nor is it how it must be.”
“It is a deep irony that the era in which America is commonly thought of as leading the world in a market revolution saw its housing market become dependent on a government-sponsored mortgage machine descended from the New Deal.”
Source: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
“It is a deep, relentless ache,
that I cannot escape.
Unfazed,
and perhaps,
relieved, by the pain,
that has taken root.”
Source: VERSES OF THE BROKEN: Echoes From A Fractured Mind
“It is a deep satisfaction for me to remember that i was a shade to smart for a nation that thinks itself so smart. Yes, I certainly did bunco a Yankee-as those people phrase it.”
“It is a deep-seated belief on the part of almost all Americans that their successes will be better assured as they help to build the success of others”
“It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”
Source: Arcadia
“It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone”
Source: The Indicator
“It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.”
“It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.”
“It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail.”
“It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.”
“It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.”
“It is a departure from nature for a vulture to venture into haircut adventure.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.”
“It is a depressing business talking to journalist.”
“It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
“It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ”
Source: Works of Richard Sibbes: Expositions and treatises from portions of several of the Epistles of St. Paul
“It is a development of history that has transformed the political classes into social classes such that, just as the Christians are equal in heaven yet unequal on earth, so the individual members of a people are equal in the heaven of their political world yet unequal in the earthly existence of society.”
Source: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
“It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.”
“It is a dichotomous time where the younger generation is perceived as free. But smoking pot is not being free. Taking drugs is not being free. I feel that being courteous and telling your dad, 'I'm going to have a drink' with your dad saying 'give me one too' is cool. That's being freer, happier and nicer. But having issues and saying that 'I am my own person, I am moving out Mom!' is not. Yes, if your mom tells you to move out then that's being free.”
“It is a dictatorship. They did have a good health - do have a decent health care system and a decent educational system. A lot of people have left Cuba for better dreams, to fulfill their aspirations.”
“It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.”
Source: Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion
“It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.”
“It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television”
“It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.”
“It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.”
“It is a different world today from what it was then. It will be a different world tomorrow from what it is today.”
“It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit.”
“It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.”
Source: The Second Sex
“It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.”
“It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.”
“It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.”
“It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man-- that question I had to grapple with, and which thousands are weighing at the present moment in these uprising times-- whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and re-shape his course accordingly. I tried to do the latter, and I failed. But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my success would have made it a right one; though that's how we appraise such attempts nowadays--I mean, not by their essential soundness, but by their accidental outcomes. If I had ended by becoming like one of these gentlemen in red and black that we saw dropping in here by now, everybody would have said: 'See how wise that young man was, to follow the bent of his nature!' But having ended no better than I began they say: 'See what a fool that fellow was in following a freak of his fancy!”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“It is a difficult thing―if not impossible―to forgive oneself for foolish errors, not for trampling a life or goring another with sharp horns, but for being the fool who opened the gate and let the bull out, blind to potential consequences.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“It is a direction not a destination.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”
Source: Four Essays
“It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.”
“It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.”
“It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche