I Quotes
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“It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.”
Source: Moab is My Washpot
“It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.”
Source: Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts
“It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction”
Source: The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse
“It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.”
“It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.”
“It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.”
“It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.”
“It is a lonely occupation, being someone who wrestles to control their responses to food, given that modern life is steeped with things to eat, both real and imaginary.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else.”
Source: Vinegar Hill
“It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.”
Source: Tell Me a Riddle
“It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.”
“It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it's difficult and never forget the place where you came from and the people that helped you get where you are. These things will live on in you and through you, long after the words have faded.”
“It is a long journey with many cold nights ahead.”
“Wouldn’t you just love that.”
“I would, yes.” He grins at me.
“I’d rather freeze, thank you.”
“Would you? I should like to think I could have you in my arms before we return to the tribe.”
My face feels like it’s burning with humiliation. “That will never happen.”
“That sounds like a challenge.”
“Or common sense.”
Source: Barbarian's Lady
“It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.”
“It is a long road from conception to completion.”
“It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?”
Source: A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels
“It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir”
“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"
I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.
"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.”
Source: Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)
“it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.”
“It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.”
“It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.”
“It is a lot easier to wear a hazmat suit now than it is to deal with the potentially fatal aspects of COVID-19 later.”
“It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.”
“It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. Take care of yourself.”
“It is a lot harder to put something back together than to keep it running.”
“It is a lot harder when you are 4-1 down than when you are 4-1 up.”
“It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. Thats one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, thats one of the greatest things Ive got going on, being a father.”
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”
Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.”
“It is a luxury to be understood.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1826-1832
“It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.”
Source: The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
“It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.”
“It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.”
“It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.”
“It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.”
“It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.”
“It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.”
“It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.”
“It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.”
“It is a man’s world in which we live, Skraeda. Let them think us lambs, when truly, we are wolves.”
Source: The Road of Bones
“It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.”
“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
“It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”
“It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.”
“It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.”
“It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.”
Source: Enchiridion
“It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.”
Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually