I Quotes
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“It is a tragedy to die with your song unsung.”
Source: The Tools
“It is a tragedy to see the medical profession move from suicide prevention to suicide facilitation. The right-to-die movement presents euthanasia as compassionate. But disparaging human life as expendable is not compassionate. The term 'compassion' literally means 'to suffer with' (com=with, passion=suffer). True compassion means being willing to suffer on behalf of others, loving them enough to bear the burden of caring for them.”
“It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.”
“It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.”
“It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.”
Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband
“It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.”
Source: The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works
“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.”
“It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.”
“It is a tragic waste to speak positively about someone behind their back.”
“It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.”
“It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.”
Source: All Religions are True
“It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.”
“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”
Source: Rodin and Other Prose Pieces
“It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.”
“It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“It is a tremendous honor to be a No. 2 seed, and to get to play so close to home in Dayton. It is an incredible feeling, and it will be interesting to start preparing. But right now we need some rest and then we'll get our guys going for the NCAA Tournament.”
“It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.”
“It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.”
“It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.”
“It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.”
“It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are our judges were quite convinced that we were guilty and that we should all pay the price.”
“It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.”
“It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.”
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
“It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.”
“It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.”
Source: Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
“It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.”
“It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.”
“It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.”
“It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.”
“It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'”
“It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...
“It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.”
“It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easily forgotten is the fact that "the West" is a relative concept only. Without an "East" or a "non-West" to compare it with, it would quite simply not exist; there would be no word for it in our vocabulary. If the concept of the West did not exist, of course, the spatial variations within the geographical area now subsumed under "the West" would loom larger in our minds. The difference between France and America might seem just as great as those between China and the West.”
Source: Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
“It is a truism of biology that evolution is conservative.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.”
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
Source: Revolt in 2100
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.”
“It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.”
“It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
“It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.”
“It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.”
“It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.”
Source: Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League
“It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.”
Source: Mindswap
“It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry about its interpretation, about what it really means.”
Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought
“It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.”
“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.”