I Quotes
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“It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.”
Source: D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments
“It is a fearful environment where no one can trust to pick up a stranger, or a stranger cannot trust to get in a car. That search I find lacking. That openness. Right now, we have got ourselves stuck in one thing, which is make money as fast as we can, because it is hard to live in this world without it. Let us face it.”
“It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.”
“It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.”
“It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved. To look upon another-his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects is to look upon one who is suffering. He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from which you yourself suffer. This is very important: do not look upon him with judgmental eyes of comparison, noting the sins you assume you'd never commit. Rather, see him as a fellow sufferer, a fellow human being who is in need of the very healing of which you are in need. Help him, love him, pray for him do unto him as you would have him do unto you.”
“It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.”
“It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.”
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of respectable medical research. And nobody on the outside knows, or wants to know, or is willing to find out. My parents, my friends, my teachers, wouldnt listen to me, or suggested that if it was bothering me that much I just had to quit the job. Just like that. As if that would have solved anything. As if I could ever live with such cowardice. You can't imagine, or maybe you can, how many people are convinced - without knowing the first thing about it - Animal research is essential. Americans have been hopelessly brainwashed on this issue. The animal rights people, by and large, acknowledge the essential futility of trying to change the system. So they address the smaller issues, fighting for legislation which would provide one extra visit per week to the labs by a custodian of the US dept of agriculture. Or demanding that a squirrel monkey be given an extra 12 square inches in his holding pen, before being led to the slaughter. That sort of thing. For whomever, and whatever it's worth, I hope my little write up is clear. I dont have the guts to do whats necessary. I pray there's someone out there who does. God help all of us.”
Source: Rage and Reason
“It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.”
Source: The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights
“It is a feeling deep in your soul, that you have known this person forever. Even if you have never met them before in this lifetime, something inside you knows them, their energy, their essence, their soul.”
Source: The Dumb Dumb's Handbook: To Twin Flame Relationships
“It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.”
“It is a fictional creation of the mind to believe that healing requires sacrificing what we love or hold dear. In truth, we are never forced to push hard. At any time, we can dissolve the belief that change involves hard work and unwanted sacrifices.”
Source: Heal Your Living : The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness
“It is a field as big as a football stadium carpeted every inch with bright-red poppies. The red is like the kind of color that you see only in oversaturated photos, the kind that doesn't seem to truly exist in real life. Thousands and thousands of poppies stretch out in front of us, one right after the other, as though if you squinted, it would look like a giant red blanket had been laid on top of thousands of gangly green weeds. Dense olive trees line the edges of the field, and behind them, sloping green hills take over the skyline against a cloudless blue sky.
I bend down and pick up a poppy, its inky-black center surrounded by delicate red petals clustered and fanning out. It is all so dreamy.”
Source: Recipe for Second Chances
“It is a fight and struggle to just be yourself.”
“It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.”
“It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.”
Source: My theatre life
“It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.”
“It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.”
Source: Kushiel's Dart
“It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.”
“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.”
“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes
“It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.”
Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays
“It is a fine word indeed and a deeply pleasing notion. All of my associations with coorie come from childhood - being invited to feel welcome, safe and loved, close by the side of someone making just enough room. Coorie is good for the heart and the soul.”
“It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.”
Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge
“It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.”
“It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us a peculiar satisfaction if it is “the biggest” of its disagreeable kind that has happened since the world began. During a heat wave, for instance, we are very pleased if the papers announce that it is “the highest temperature reached since the year 1881,” and we feel a little resentment towards the year 1881 for having gone us one better. Or if our ears are frozen till all the skin peels off, it fills us with a certain happiness to learn that “it was the hardest frost recorded since 1786.” It is just the same with wars. The war in progress is either the most righteous or the bloodiest, or the most successful, or the longest, since such and such a time; any superlative whatever always affords us the proud satisfaction of having been through something extraordinary and record-breaking.”
Source: The Absolute at Large
“It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.”
“It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.”
Source: Strange Places
“It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a man impressed as fully and strongly as he ought to be with the belief of a God, his moral life would be regulated by the force of belief; he would stand in awe of God and of himself, and would not do the thing that could not be concealed from either.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.”
Source: The White Company
“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
Source: The Absolute Sandman
“It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.”
“It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.”
“It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.”
“It is a foolish person that desecrates a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
“It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.”
“It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.”
“It is a foolish thing for people to look for a reason to live because existence itself is so valuable that there is no need for a reason to live! Stop looking for reasons to live and enjoy the mysterious gift called life!”
“It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain”
Source: Never let it end: poems of a lifelong love
“It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.”
“It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.”
Source: The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters
“It is a form of violence, to not see a being for who he or she really is. You think, "Oh, that's my son." But the lens, "my son," completely obliterates the multi- dimensions of that being. Maybe you only see your disappointments in that child, or you aspirations for that child, but that's not the child.”
“It is a fortunate and astonishing fact that the fundamental laws of our fantastic fidgety universe are based on relatively simple equations. If it were otherwise, we surely would know less than we know now about how our universe behaves, and Newton and Leibniz would probably never have invented (or discovered?) calculus.”
Source: Calculus Made Easy
“It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.”