I Quotes
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“It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.”
Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
“It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.”
Source: Collected Writings
“It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.”
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
“It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”
“It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.”
“It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.”
Source: Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World
“It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“It (is) a precious gift, and rare, to hear birds warbling all year long. ~Desiree Clary Bernadottev(Queen Desideria)”
Source: The Queen's Fortune
“It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.”
Source: A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Top of Sigmund Freud
“It is a prejudice to believe that knowledge is always rational, that there is no such thing as irrational knowledge. Actually, we apprehend a great deal more through feeling than by intellection; and it is a matter of some note, that not only love and sympathy, but also hostility and hate, may help to further our knowledge. The heart is the centre of the entire man. That is above all a Christian truth. The whole appreciative aspect of knowledge is affective, for it expresses the ‘reasons of the heart’.”
Source: العزلة والمجتمع
“It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streamsThrough it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.”
“It is a pretty structure, isn’t it? It makes you think of something solid, stable, well linked. In fact it happens in chemistry as in architecture that ‘beautiful’ edifices, that is symmetrical and simple, are also the most sturdy: in short, the same thing happens with molecules as with the cupolas of cathedrals of the arches of bridges. And it is also possible that the explanation is neither remote nor metaphysical: to say ‘beautiful’ is to say ‘desirable’, and ever since man has built he has wanted to build at the smallest expense and in the most durable fashion, and the aesthetic enjoyment he experiences when contemplating his work comes afterward. Certainly, it has not always been this way: there have been centuries in which ‘beauty’ was identified with adornment, the superimposed, the frills; but it is probable that they were deviant epochs and that the true beauty, in which every century recognises itself, is found in upright stones, ships’ hulls, the blade of an axe, the wing of a plane.”
Source: The periodic table
“It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.”
“It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.”
“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.”
Source: 1816-1828
“It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.”
Source: The Hunt for Red October
“it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
Source: British Classics: Great Expectations
“It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.”
“It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.”
“It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.”
Source: Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln: At Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865
“It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.”
Source: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state
“It is a priority to be as proactive, in all aspects of your life's journey, as you can be. If you do not make this effort, you will become over reactive to every new experience that crosses your path. Be Proactive , not Reactive.”
“It is a private battlefield, the school arena, perhaps created by adults, but a war, nonetheless, that they cannot easily fight in. I informed the headmaster that if he could prove that a teacher could have thumped Georgie Smales as effectively, then I would be willing, next time, to call a teacher. I would, I told him, very much like to see that.”
Source: Memories of a Lost Thesaurus
“It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.”
“It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.”
“It is a privilege to be called a friend. To be included in someone's private space. To witness both their joy and suffering. To stand with them on good days, and to lie with them on nights they cannot breathe.”
“It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics. As all of the “20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer. I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission.”
“It is a privilege to have been made in God’s image and to be a resemblance of Him.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“It is a privilege to have been made in God’s image and to resemble Him.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“It is a privilege to hold a child in your hand.”
“It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know.”
“It is a privilege to meet some people; it is a disaster to meet some people; it is shocking to meet some people; but there is a category of people, which is the worst: Meeting them means nothing!”
“It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.”
“It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.”
“It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.”
Source: The Path to Prosperity
“It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.”
“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
Source: Aeschylus
“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”
Source: Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community
“It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned. Every player knows that all (or almost all) combinations arise from a recollection of familiar elements.”
“It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.”
“It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. The kings of this world and all secular governments may ignore this reality, but they cannot undo it. The universe is no democracy. It is a monarchy. God himself has appointed his beloved Son as the preeminent King. Jesus does not rule by referendum, but by divine right. In the future every knee will bow before him, either willingly or unwillingly. Those who refuse to do so will have their knees broken with a rod of iron.”
Source: What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics
“It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
“It is a promise that I ask of you - a promise that no matter the time and age you'll never lose sight of your humanity - you'll never be too immersed in your own comfort to help out those in misery around you. If you can make this promise, not to me mark you but to yourself, then I'll know that I've achieved absolution.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)
“It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?”