I Quotes
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“It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.”
“It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.”
“It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.”
“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
“It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.”
Source: Creating Love: A New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships
“It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.”
Source: The Rehearsal
“It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.”
“It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.”
“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
Source: Later Novels & Other Writings
“It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.”
“It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?”
“It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.”
“It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.”
Source: The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle
“It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.”
“It is a matter for wonder: a moment, now here and then gone, nothing before it came, again nothing after it has gone, nonetheless returns as a ghost and disturbs the peace of a later moment. A leaf flutters from the scroll of time, floats away- and suddenly floats back again and falls into the man's lap. Then the man says 'I remember' and envies the animal, who at once forgets and for whom every moment really dies, sinks back into night and f og and is extinguished for ever. Thus the animal lives unhistorically: for it is contained in the present...”
“It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.”
“It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves... However, one can create order out of disorder[.]”
Source: The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
“It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.”
“It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free to deal or not to deal in any given case; to limit or withhold the equipment under his control, without reservation. Business discretion and business strategy, in fact, has no other means by to work out its aims. So that, in effect, all business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.”
Source: The Nature of Peace
“It is a matter of economic wellbeing that most families be formed as mother, father, and children in a single-family household.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“It is a matter of efficiency, practicality and productivity that labor as a whole be divided into specialty jobs that come together to produce greater value than could be produced without such division. Businesses will tend to create new jobs which serve a special function. Therefore, workers will be incentivized to skill themselves such that they may be employed in certain functional roles according to their availability in the marketplace. This phenomena contributes to efficiency at scale, in the economy. Any law or policy or cultural trend which inhibits the division of labor will consequently inhibit efficiency in the economy.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of
which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.”
“It is a matter of faith to believe such a thing as a soul exists. It is also a matter of faith to believe it does not exist.”
Source: The Specific Gravity of the Soul
“It is a matter of finding yourself in possession of the one vital facet that the other lacks, but needs.”
Source: Autobiography
“It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original creation is reaffirmed. All that has corrupted and defaced it--including many things which are woven so tightly in to the fabric of the world as we know it that we can't imagine being without them--will be done away. Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.”
“It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.”
Source: The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1828-1858
“It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!”
“It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.”
Source: The Human Script
“It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?”
Source: The Philosophy of History
“It is a matter of perspective, between opponent and partner… You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely.”
Source: The Night Circus
“It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.”
Source: The Night Circus
“It is a matter of record that I was diagnosed as suffering from PTSD.”
Source: The Full Circle for Mick
“It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.”
“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”
“It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.”
“It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.”
Source: Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth
“It is a matter of truly learning how to unify instinct with intellect, to [civilize] our instincts and to revere our intellect.
Sugar in the Raw is a tribute to the virtue of street signs and first-person testimony.”
Source: Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America
“It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.”
Source: Day by Day
“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
Source: Lord Jim (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): A Classic Novel of Guilt and Atonement From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent & Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.”
Source: Gulliver's Travels
“It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.”
“It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.”
“It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.”
“It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)
“It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.”
“It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.”
“It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.”
Source: Comedy of the Beaux Stratagem with the Biography of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland