I Quotes
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“It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.”
“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.”
“It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.”
“It is a proper and excellent thing for infinite glory to shine forth; and for the same reason, it is proper that the shining forth of God's glory should be complete; that is, that all parts of his glory should shine forth, that every beauty should be proportionably effulgent, that the beholder may have a proper notion of God.”
Thus it is necessary, that God's awful majesty, his authority and dreadful greatness, justice, and holiness, should be manifested. But this could not be, unless sin and punishment had been decreed; so that the shining forth of God's glory would be very imperfect, both because these parts of divine glory would not shine forth as the others do, and also the glory of his goodness, love, and holiness would be faint without them; nay, they could scarcely shine forth at all.”
Source: Works of Jonathan Edwards. Volume One and Two, Religious Affections, Freedom of the Will, Treatise on Grace, Select Sermons, David Brainerd and more
“It is a property of works of genius that, even when they represent vividly the nothingness of things, even when they clearly show and make you feel the inevitable unhappiness of life, even when they express the most terrible despair, nevertheless to a great soul that finds itself in a state of extreme dejection, disenchantment, nothingness, boredom and discouragement about life, or in the most bitter and deathly misfortune, such works always bring consolation, and rekindle enthusiasm, and, though they treat and represent nothing but death, they restore, albeit momentarily, the life that it had lost.”
Source: Zibaldone
“It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)”
“It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids.”
“It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.”
“It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.”
“It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.”
“It is a psychological truism that anything sufficiently threatening or harmful once encountered can never be forgotten if it has never been understood.”
Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
“It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.”
“It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.”
“It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people—confused and excited—hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.”
Source: The Robe
“It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.”
“It is a queer weapon, a shotgun. Every effort to secure additional range is well paid for. A bird may be going away at tremendous speed, "burning the air" as a youngster would put it. Seemingly nothing but chain-lightning, which zig-zagged a bit, could stop him. A crack of the gun and that wild flier is dead in the air, a full forty yards away. Right then the conviction comes to us that man never made another weapon so deadly as the shotgun. However, go back another forty yards, set the bird up on the limb of a tree and you might shoot at him all day and not kill him. The shotgun is a deadly weapon but its range is strictly limited and we are ourselves pretty well convinced that nothing less than a two-inch cannon will regularly kill single game-birds at one-hundred yards, with any kind of shot that can be put in the gun.”
Source: Shotgun-ology: A Handbook of Useful Shotgun Information
“It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.”
“It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.”
“It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.”
Source: Philosophical works
“It is a question of our own peace and mental stability.”
“It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.”
“It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.”
Source: Return to Titanic: a new look at the world's most famous lost ship
“It is a quiet blessing to be known beyond what words could hold.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It is a quiet joy when someone remembers the little things about you—not from reminders, but from a caring heart.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It is a quintessential American characteristic to refuse to remain imprisoned by the restrictions imposed upon our pursuit of knowledge, wisdom and happiness by the all-too-often too-limited imaginations of our ancestors.”
“It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.”
Source: Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat
“It is a quirk of the age that the easiest way to start a friendship with someone is generally by asking them to get undressed.”
Source: The Course of Love
“It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.”
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.”
“it is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.”
Source: Stealing Athena
“It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.”
“It is a radical act to believe in and like yourself.”
“It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.”
“It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.”
“It is a rare and precious thing in life to know what you want. Even more, to pursue it. ~Lord Dominic St. Raven”
Source: The Unconventional Governess
“It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.”
“It is a rare blessing to not want to live a second longer than you will live.”
“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”
“It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.”
“It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.”
Source: Essays
“It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'”
“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.”
Source: The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
“It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.”
Source: Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason
“It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.”
Source: Photojournalism: Pictures for Magazines and Newspapers
“It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.”
“It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.”
“It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.”
“It is a rarely spotlighted irony that so much of the dialogue about diversity and inclusion ends up emphasizing what sets us apart instead of what brings us together.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.”