I Quotes
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“It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.”
“It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.”
“It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.”
“It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.”
“It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.”
“It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.”
“It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not seek him for who he is. They seek him in a pinch as one who might preserve them from death or enhance their worldly enjoyments. Apart from conversion, no one comes to the light of God.”
“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex —everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children.”
“It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.”
“It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.”
“It is a myth that women are the more complicated sex. Men too, have their moods and whims. They too, respond to every gauntlet that is thrown at them, either overtly or covertly.”
Source: Second Spring
“It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.”
“It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do. This is a distortion and a travesty. Men have never sought to prove that they can do all the things women do. Why subject women to purely masculine criteria? Women can and ought to be judged by the criteria of femininity, for it is in their femininity that they participate in the human race. And femininity has its limitations. So has masculinity. That is what we’ve been talking about. To do this is not to do that. To be this is not to be that. To be a woman is not to be a man. To be married is not to be single - which may mean not to have a career. To marry this man is not to marry all the others. A choice is a limitation.”
Source: Let Me Be a Woman
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”
“It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions....What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such an act? There is sickness in the nation when political differences cannot be accepted and settled in the democratic way.
(from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)”
Source: Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy
“It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'”
Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“It is a natural instinct to grasp what is falling, reach for what is slipping or chase what is running away. ”
Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an Enlightened Woman.” Apple Books.”
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“It is a natural Law that you must give in order to receive.”
Source: The Mystery of Belief: How to Manifest Your Dreams
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages fall, it is due to the capitalist. Why the capitalist is ineffective when wages rise, and the profiteer when prices fall, the man in the street does not inquire. Nor does he notice that wages and prices rise and fall together. If he is a capitalist, he wants wages to fall and prices to rise; if he is a wage earner, he wants the opposite. When a currency expert tries to explain that profiteers and trade unions and ordinary employers have very little to do with the matter, he irritates everybody, like the man who threw doubt on German atrocities. (In World War I) We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to have when we suffer. It is so depressing to think taht we suffer because we are fools; yet taking mankind in mass, that is the truth. For this reason, no political party can acquire any driving force except through hatred; it must hold someone to obloquy. If so-and-so’s wickedness is the sole cause of our misery, let us punish so-and-so and we shall be happy. The supreme example of this kind of political thought was the Treaty of Versailles. Yet most people are only seeking some new scapegoat to replace the Germans.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“It is a natural remedy that reduces inflammation and soothes irritated skin.”
Source: Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“It is a natural remedy that reduces inflammation and soothes irritated skin. It makes for a wonderful treatment for razor burn, for example.”
Source: Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“It is a natural stronghold for them—they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they’ll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters.” “Wow,” Shane said. “You really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?” Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. “Would you be surprised if I had?”
Source: Black Dawn
“It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“It is a necessary part of a rule of life to cherish our bodies, care for them, and see the beauty in their intricate design. But too often, most of us - men and women both - come to dislike them as the years pass, or at the very least to feel that they need major remodeling... We fight to stave off aging or at least to disguise it. Yet in his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul reminds us of the sanctity of the body (1 Cor. 6:19-20)...”
Source: At Home in the World: A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us
“It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.”
“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”
Source: You are Not a Stranger Here
“It is a neglected but essential fact that we cannot appreciate the relationship between religion and violence unless we grasp the nature and meaning of the two partners in this relationship. Yet our understandings both of religion and of violence are inadequate. Further, we usually consider too few offspring of their troubled marriage: when we think of “religious violence,” we tend to think only of holy war and (especially since September 11) religious terrorism. However, those are not the only types of religious violence.”
Source: Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History
“It is a new day for a new thought, new identity, new ideas, new steps and new breathe! We may choose to repeat the mistakes of yesterday or think of the lessons from the mistakes of yesterday. We may choose dwell on the fortunes or misfortunes of yesterday or think of what we can do with the fortunes or misfortunes of yesterday today! We may choose to continue or discontinue the steps we took yesterday today. Life is here today and we must think of what we can do today for today was the vision of yesterday and the true foundation of tomorrow!”
“It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.”
Source: When Worlds Collide
“It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.”
Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion
“It is a new year....It is time to get...back on the camel"
-Mr.Black”
Source: All the Bright Places
“It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey”
Source: Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
“It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“It is a nightmare come true, as the city becomes Hell on Earth.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“It is a nightmare to have good dreams, but fail to act on them. Prioritize your dreams while you can.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“It is a no that means maybe, and the more passionate the no, the more definite the maybe.”
Source: Shantaram
“It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.”
“It is a noble act to accept our losses while celebrating the gains of so many, I am convinced today's outcome would have delighted King Caelum. Your time with him has been a blessing, as is any time with our loved ones. But we must all learn to say goodbye.”
Source: Adaline and the Sphere
“It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.”
“It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.”
“It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.”
Source: Killosophy
“It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt”
“It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.”
“It is a note
Of upstart greatness to observe and watch
For these poor trifles, which the noble mind
Neglects and scorns.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson ...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Biographical Memoir
“It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.”
“It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966