I Quotes
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“It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.”
Source: Gary Larson's the curse of Madame
“It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.”
“It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.”
Source: It's an Old Lancashire Custom
“It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.”
Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959
“It is a law, doubtless, but a law neither more nor less normal than that of destruction even self-destruction. Is it possible that the normal law of humanity is contained in this sentiment of self preservation?”
Source: The Idiot
“It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.”
“It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.”
“It is a law of Nature: a storm must follow tranquility to prove the growth of life.”
Source: The First Snowfall Of Winter: Love’s Eternal Light Amidst the Ruins of Despair
“It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave”
“It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.”
“It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well....We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market...keeps getting better and better.”
“It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.”
“It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.”
“It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.”
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
Source: The Time Machine
“It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.”
“It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.”
“It is a law, that every event depends on some law.”
“It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.”
“it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.”
“It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.”
“It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.”
“It is a lie.”
Source: The Crucible
“It is a lie - any talk of God that does not comfort you.”
“It is a lie that America is racist”
“It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.”
“It is a lie that to talk to Hispanics you have to talk about amnesty. Let me tell you, the only Hispanics that are in favor of amnesty are the illegals.”
“It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.”
“It is a life force. It seemed to be a tank division. Sunday evening became Monday morning. July 2018 - June 2019.”
“It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.”
“It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.”
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
“It is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public. But I think the public needs to know that there are multiple oversight layers, including the FISA Court, congressional oversight, internal oversight within the FBI and intelligence community, that protects Americans from - under - their - their privacy rights while targeting terrorists and people who are trying to kill us.”
“It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.”
“It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.”
“it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.”
Source: WOMAN TO WOMAN
“It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.”
“It is a little ironic that one thing a babysitter should not do is sit on a baby.”
“It is a little-known but significant fact that no president has appeared more times in Superman comic books than JFK. He was even entrusted with Superman's secret identity and once pretended to be Clark Kent so as to prevent it from being exposed. When Supergirl debuted as a character, she was formally presented to the Kennedys. (Not surprisingly, the president took an immediate liking to her.) In a special issue dedicated to getting American youth to become physically fit — just like the astronaut 'Colonel Glenn' — Kennedy enlists Superman on a mission to close 'the muscle gap'.”
Source: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.”
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.”
“It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.”
“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.”
“It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.”
Source: CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter
“It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.”
“It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.”