I Quotes
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“It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.”
“It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.”
“It is a pagan practice to speak in tongues. God's people must avoid confusion and be clear in their messages, including their actions.”
“It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.”
“It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.”
“It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.”
Source: Sophocles
“It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.”
“It is a paradise. It is a sanctuary. It is where the pained come to heal in peace and solitude.”
Source: A Touch of Darkness
“It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.”
“It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.”
“It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.”
“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”
“It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.”
“It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.”
“It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.”
Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
Source: Civilization on Trial
“It is a paradoxical but the silence breaks our peace.”
“It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.”
“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.”
“It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.”
Source: And Even Now
“It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology.”
Source: The Angel's Game
“It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.”
“It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.”
“It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him.”
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.”
“It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.”
“it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“It is a peculiar characteristic of people that for some inexplicable reason they feel nice about themselves when they cite their acquaintance with the successful.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.”
Source: A Way of Seeing
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
“It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104”
“It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.”
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to
the future...And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments
of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to
the task.”
“It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.”
“It is a peculiarly Renaissance conundrum that each and every deadly sin could happily join hands with the virtues, that the crimes of the body could coexist with a sincere desire for purity of soul.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
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“It is a perfectly normal side-effect for someone to have depression because he cannot move or function in his job. That is all that it is: a side-effect. Those with disabilities and debilitating illnesses probably have more to get depressed about than others.”
“It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”
“It is a pervasive condition of empires that they affect great swathes of the planet without the empire's populace being aware of that impact - indeed without being aware that many of the affected places even exist. How many Americans are aware of the continuing socio environmental fallout from U.S. militarism and foreign policy decisions made three or four decades ago in, say, Angola or Laos? How many could even place those nation-states on a map?”
Source: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
“It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.”
“It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.”
“It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to turn into solid habitable mansions on a gravel soil, that we can find no time for pleasure trips into the Land of Thought and among the Hills of Vanity.”
“It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.”
“It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.”
“It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.”
“It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes