I Quotes
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“It is a great bond to dislike the same things.”
Source: The letters of George Santayana
“It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.”
“It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.”
“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”
“It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.”
Source: Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus
“It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.”
“It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.”
“It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.”
“It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.”
“It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.”
“It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.”
“It is a great disadvantage to spend one’s time worrying about what may go wrong. When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would’ve prepared one in some way. This is not the case. Instead, the senseless disorder of one’s thoughts grows more and more uncontrollable as one rehearses the events that befell, to no good effect since nothing can undo the damage, no amount of muddled thinking can ever result in any other outcome.”
Source: The Grand Tour
“It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.”
“It is a great error to assume . . . that the methodology of economics is normally applied to determine whether an activity carried on by a group within society yields a profit to society as a whole. Even nationalised industries are not considered from this more comprehensive point of view. Every one of them is given a financial target—which is, in fact, an obligation—and is expected to pursue this target without regard to any damage it might be inflicting on other parts of the economy.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. ("“The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)”
Source: The Episodes of Vathek
“It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.”
“It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.”
“It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.”
Source: Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8
“It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.”
“It is a great gift to find lasting love - one that gives for every bit it takes.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“It is a great gift to help someone crossover well. The person leaving will benefit from a clearer, cleaner, calmer post-Earth path. When people die, they essentially follow their instincts and leanings. Most of their human associations and attachments disintegrate. They are pulled, pushed, and drawn by their inherent tendencies. Advanced souls have a more conscious and intentional path after their passing.”
Source: Purnima
“It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.”
Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays
“It is a great good to be given over to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul, and no other thought, and she prays to God with a pure mind. When the soul is entirely given over to the will of God, then the Lord Himself begins to guide her, and the soul learns directly from God ... A proud man does not with to live according to the will of God. He likes to direct himself, and does not understand that man does not have enough understanding to direct himself without God.”
“It is a great happiness to be able to give.”
Source: Lovingkindness : The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
“It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.”
“It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.”
“It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.”
“It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in the way we put ourselves inside the stories we photograph. He always strove for the decisive moment as being the most important. I always work for a group of pictures, to tell a story. If you ask which picture in a story I like most, it is impossible for me to tell you this. I don't work for an individual picture. If I must select one individual picture for a client, it is very difficult for me.”
“It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.”
“It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this distinction, you really honor the players who put me there. All of the honors I receive became a reality only through the contributions of my players. In addition to myself, you also honor my family and the Dodger organization. I accept this recognition with pride and gratitude.”
“It is a great honour to be human. Humans have the capacity to freely choose their destiny and, one day, they will all choose the right destiny.”
Source: Waldmeer
“It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.”
“It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too”
“It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.”
“It is a great joy to love and be loved.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is a great joy to open a new path; and then, it is a greater joy to see new people on this new path; but the greatest joy is to see the new people opening many more brand new paths via this new path!”
“It is a great life, this life of music.”
“It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.”
Source: Ricordi
“It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.”
“It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.”
“It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”
Source: Abandoned
“It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.”
“It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.”
“It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.”
“It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.”
“It is a great mistake to say that the thorn does not have anything to do with the rose, or that the thorn is the absence of the rose. The thorn is as much rose bush as the rose is. The thorn has as much validity as the rose. Let this Rose Bush be the symbol of the Heart of Real Spirituality. We are not asking you to like the thorn, but we are asking you to see it as an expression of Allah.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of affection. There is not on earth a more merciless extractor of love from others than a thoroughly selfish woman; and the more unlovely she grows, the more jealously and scrupulously she extracts love, to the uttermost farthing.”
“It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches