I Quotes
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“It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul.”
Source: The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
“It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.”
“it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.”
Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye
“It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.”
“It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.”
“It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.”
“It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.”
“It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 93 - 119 (Annotated Edition)
“It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.”
“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.”
Source: Essays
“It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.”
Source: Selections from the Essays
“It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.”
“It is a sign of failure to have achieved spiritual awakening, to seek happiness in material success.”
“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.”
“It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.”
“It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.”
“It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.”
“It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.”
“It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“It is a sign of spiritual maturity to care about people, but not about how they are doing.”
“It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.”
“It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.”
“It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.”
“It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.”
“It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing”
“It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.”
“It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. The old curiosity shop and other tales
“It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.”
Source: Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society
“It is a simple answer, really. It comes to Essa in the memory of XX’s old name. A fist is tight and tense, then it opens, relaxes, turns and flies up. It could mean Escape-from-bondage, but it could also mean: let it go.
“Let it go. Let the past transform as it will, let the future unfold. XX was right in a way about her expectations: she has taken to worrying at the world, trying to get it to make sense. It is time to let go, whatever that may mean: daughter, lover, friend, past and future.
“Simply let it all go. It will fly up.”
Source: Black Wine
“It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.”
“It is a simple chemical reaction that has nothing to do with fusion.”
“It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions.”
“It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.”
“It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.”
“It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.”
Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”
“It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced planter and the smaller the groups the more difficult they are to place.”
Source: Great gardens of Britain
“It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.”
Source: Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)
“It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?”
Source: Everyday Wisdom
“It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.”
“It is a simple truth that if we identify ourselves as being fundamentally pure, strong, and capable we will actually develop these qualities, but if we continue to think of ourselves as dull and foolish, that is what we will become.”
Source: Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire
“It is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most rigid restrictions, than the awful prospect of a lawless, frontierless world. Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity; it brings out the old raiding, oppressing, murderous instincts; the rage for revenge, for power, the lust for bloodshed. The longing for freedom takes the form of crushing the enemy- there is always the enemy!- into the earth; and where and who is the enemy if there is no visible establishment to attack, to destroy with blood and fire? Remember all that oratory when freedom is threatened again. Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.”
Source: The Never-Ending Wrong
“It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).”
Source: An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations
“It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.”
Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)
“It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.”
“It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.”
“It is a sin to be a mocker.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“It is a sin to be poor.”
Source: Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life
“It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.”