I Quotes
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“It is a world of lies that permeates the Left”
“It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.”
“It is a world of startling possibilities.”
Source: The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it
“It is a world of words that creates a world of things.”
Source: In The Heart Of The Country
“It is a world to see.”
Source: Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit
“It is a worthy quest to not simply develop a sense of identity, but become the magnanimous version of the self.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.”
“It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.”
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 wretched thing to live on the fame of others.”
“It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.”
“It is a writer's duty to speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.”
“It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books”
“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.”
“It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."”
“It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.”
“It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.”
“It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.”
Source: When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles
“It [is] abominable for many to sow, and but few reap.
On Government, Voltaire, in The Age of Enlightenment, Volume 1”
“It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will bring. As time passes, the perfection of machinery tends to insulate man from contact with the elements in which he lives. The 'stratosphere' planes of the future will cross the ocean without any sense of the water below. Like a train tunneling through a mountain, they will be aloof from both the problems and the beauty of the earth's surface.”
“It is about being resilient. I am resilient. Why would I not be? Where is the alternative? I need to respect my genes. Why I say this? Each one of us exists because we have the seed of resilience in our genes. We are descendants of those who survived hostile environments from millennia to millennia, generation to generation. Only some of us are not able to get in touch with the seed because we punish our mind and body by giving them too much of negativity and useless inputs. Yes, resilience is in our genes. If someone down the chain had not been resilient we won't be there at one end of the chain in the present..”
Source: Untitled: Life's Random Lessons
“It is about doing the right thing, which requires doing the right things the right way.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.”
“It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.”
“It is about looking straight ahead and not shifting that focus. Keep your eyes on the prize!”
Source: NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
“It is about something much larger -the pernicious prevalence and insidious ubiquity of traditional narratives that justify invasion, conquest and inequality.”
Source: When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
“It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate, they knew they were making a big strategic gamble.They knew they were taking a big risk and it turned out in the end to be a bad choice. It hurt John McCain`s chances.”
“It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.”
“It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.”
“It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.”
Source: The Leprechaun Delusion
“It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.”
“It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.”
“It is about two sisters who live in a snowy place and one of them goes icy in her soul. It is based on a fairy tale. Now, the fairy tale is dark and stabby like this alley, but in the movie version there is a talking snowman and there are songs we love to sing. We are singing the one now where icy girl is alone on a snowy hill lamenting that she is icy in her heart. She wants to change but she cannot. Because her heart has turned to ice.”
Source: Bunny
“It is about understanding and working the spaces and angles between what is obvious to everyone else, and using those quiet moments to stand out. To win. That is the hallmark of a true hustler.”
“It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching?”
“It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.”
“It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.”
“It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.”
“It is absolute stupidity to regard someone behind your success when nobody takes responsibility for your failures.”
“It is absolutely a good thing that she [Angelina Jolie] helped to educate the world about the existence of this mutation; hopefully, as a result, more compassionate understanding exists regarding the choices BRCA carriers must face.”
“It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.”
“It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.”
“It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.”
“It is absolutely certain that God does exist.”
Source: Stray Reflections: A Note-book of Allama Iqbal
“It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.”
“It is absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour Party's future in jeopardy and denying millions of people in our country who so desperately need representation by a Labour government the chance of that Labour government.”
“It is absolutely clear to me that we have to keep the internet open”
“It is absolutely correct to say that if you can't learn from the events of Nazi Germany, you will not be able to grasp the ... danger of the radical Muslim world today. You are simply hiding.”
“It is absolutely disgusting to see the same propaganda techniques being used in Florida in 2022 as they did in 2009 at the Desoto Solar Farm.”