I Quotes
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“It is a rather remarkable trick of the mind that there can be a wicked little voice that whispers in your ear that you’ve done it before and nothing happened, so why not do it again? Everything will be OK, it says. Things are bad now, but something will turn up. The good will prevail, you’ll be rescued, you’ll find the answer at the last minute. No one dies in a story…”
Source: The Fairy's Tale
“It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.”
“It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.”
“It is a real art to combine different types of pleasure and create a super pleasure, like reading a nice book inside a hot bathtub in an open air while the sun is setting!”
“It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.”
“It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.”
“It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.”
“It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.”
“It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.”
“It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.”
“It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.”
“It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.”
“It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.”
“It is a really bad idea to call 911 for the police!”
“It is a really bad idea to harass a worker that can shut your toxic facilities down.”
“It is a really bad idea to let a police officer into your home.”
“It is a really good question. The other day I was praying over something as I was running, and I ended up saying to God, ‘Look, this is all very well, but isn’t it about time you did something, if you’re there?’ Which is probably not what the archbishop of Canterbury should say.”
“It is a really nasty thing for an airline to strand a passenger thousands of miles away from their final destination.”
“It is a refinement of Jeremy Bentham’s formulation of utilitarianism, the idea that all humans tend to gravitate toward what make them happy, and to stay away from what hurts them. On that account, trekonomics could be seen as the highest form of utilitarianism. The Federation is organized in such a way that every one of its citizens gets a chance to maximize his or her own utility. Since almost nothing is scarce, the necessity to make choices on budgeting and spending is removed from everyday life. The only thing that one really needs to decide upon is how to balance the goal of bettering oneself vis-à-vis the injunction to better humanity. In other words, the biggest challenge for every Federation citizen resides in how to allocate his or her talents, time, and capacity for empathy, and how to best contribute to the common wealth.”
Source: Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
“It is a regrettable fact that whenever a person works for hire the employer begins to see all the hired hand’s efforts as an extension of themselves. Whether rightly justified or not, owners, managers, and bosses only perceive their subservient employees as a separate identity whenever they make a mistake. When all is well and successes roll in, it is a natural as rain for superiors to accept the credit for their underlining’s efforts. Over an extended period, even the most sensitive of overseers can take a dutiful servant for granted. Likewise, a loyal servant can slowly subsume their psychological individuality by constantly addressing their master’s wants and needs.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is a regrettable, but undeniable, fact that the most delightful people are seldom big money-makers.”
Source: Orchids On Your Budget: Or Live Smartly on What You Have
“It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”
“It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.”
“It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.”
Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition
“It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.”
“It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347
“It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.”
“It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.”
“It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.”
“It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.”
Source: Looking Up When Life Gets You Down
“It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two”
Source: The Quality of Mercy
“It is a reminder of our irrelevant smallness and accidental existence in the universe, a glimpse of something violently outside the bounds of human existence, as close as you can get to seeing God.”
“it is a reminder to humanity what we should always remember…is to be kind to one another.” - Dr. Armani, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow”
Source: Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome
“It is a responsibility to be who you are and not let this sport [racing] change you and not let the good runs and success or the bad runs change you. You've got to be the same person all the time.”
“It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.”
“It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“It is a revelation to compare the Don Quixote of Pierre Menard with that of Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes, for example, wrote the following (Part I, Chapter IX):
...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor.
This catalog of attributes, written in the seventeenth century, and written by the "ingenious layman" Miguel de Cervantes, is mere rhetorical praise of history. Menard, on the other hand, writes:
...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor.
History, the mother of truth! - the idea is staggering. Menard, a contemporary of William James, defines history not as delving into reality but as the very font of reality. Historical truth, for Menard, is not "what happened"; it is what we believe happened. The final phrases - exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor - are brazenly pragmatic.”
Source: Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote
“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”
Source: The letters of George Santayana
“It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.”
“It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”
“It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”
“It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.”
“It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.”
“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”
Source: Meditations
“It is a right to have a firearm to protect yourself. But it is not your right to be irresponsible. At the end of the day, it is not the gun that kills you, it is the irresponsible person that does.”
“It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.”
“It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.”
“It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.”