I Quotes
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“It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.”
Source: How to Converse with God
“It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.”
“It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.”
Source: Pym: A Novel
“It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.”
“It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master.”
Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary
“It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!”
Source: Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations
“It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.”
“It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.”
“It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.”
Source: How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.”
Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.”
“It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.”
“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.”
“It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
[Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]”
“It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the music from the Kino Kultura album i.e. the soundtrack music I've been doing. It is difficult to organise them all and to have those people for a certain date since they all have their own obligations and arrangements. It is a great privilege to gather all those musicians at one place, especially these that I work with, since they perform regularly abroad, at weddings or are working somewhere else.”
“It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.”
“It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.”
Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes
“It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence.”
Source: The Glass Bees
“It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.”
“It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.”
“It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.”
“It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!”
“It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.”
“It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has not ratified three main instruments, has not ratified the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, or the Convention on the Rights of the Child, or the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and we could have so much richer a debate and dialogue on international human rights standards if the superpower would sign up to the agenda.”
“It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.”
Source: The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920
“It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.”
“It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!”
“It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.”
“It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.”
“It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.”
“It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.”
Source: An Inland Voyage: Stevenson's Vol. 20
“It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.”
Source: The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
“It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.”
“It is a great thing to be a really good forgiver.”
“It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.' You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.”
“It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.”
Source: You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success
“It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.”
“It is a great thing to know your vices.”
“It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!”
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)
“It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.”
“It is a great time to be an independent researcher given that the government research is heavily corrupted by vested corporate interests.”
“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.”
“It is a great tragedy that an oasis does not turn out to be true! It is equally a great tragedy that a dream that has come true has created nothing but disappointment!”
“It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.”
“It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.”