I Quotes
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“It is against nature to pre-decide, what is to be done the next moment. But surprisingly, people even decide right from what they aspire to become in future to when should they visit temples and observe fasts. Now, if you act so much against nature, of course you will have to bear the brunt of it.”
“It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?”
Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out
“It is against the background of such warfare [between medical professionals] that we must evaluate modern medical ethics. There has been much criticism of the code - which makes doctors, whatever their disagreement, present a united front to the public, and it has often been pointed out that by frowning on publicity the medical associations make it difficult for newspapers to find any one who will sponsor the truth about public health, but we must remember that the alternative is continual internecine warfare which makes an ignorant public the judge of matters beyond its comprehension.”
Source: Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine
“It is against the law of Pineapples for humans to drink water after eating them.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.”
“It is against the principles of human rights to bully another human being.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.”
“It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.”
Source: Journals
“It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal "call to Sinai" against which humanity again and again rebels.”
“It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.”
“It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.”
Source: The compleat angler
“It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.”
“It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.”
Source: the female eunuch
“It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.”
Source: Cosmos
“It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.”
“It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.”
Source: Etruscan Places
“It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.”
Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms
“It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.”
“It is all about finding the entrepreneurs who we believe in. Entrepreneurs who have the wherewithal, the enthusiasm, the passion, the expertise, and the network to take early-stage ideas down the path of success. And it's not always obvious, just because someone has years of experience, or fantastic people in their eco-system, or they have fantastic capital. It is the combination of all of those things, with the right attitude. And for us attitude is crucial.”
“It is all about love. It is all about caring. We are all in this game together, we are all connected. You may not be able to see it with your eyes but if you go to the Quantum Universe, some of the physics of nature, we are all connected.”
“It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.”
“It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematic logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness—cry and then walk—but what really breaks us the cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.”
Source: An Invisible Sign of My Own
“It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.”
“It is all about perspective. To healthy people, I seem very sick. But to dying people, I seem healthy.”
“It is all about praising.
Created to praise, his heart
is a winepress destined to break,
that makes for us an eternal wine.
His voice never chokes with dust
when words for the sacred come through.
All becomes vineyard. All becomes grape,
ripening in the southland of his being.
Nothing, not even the rot
in royal tombs, or the shadow cast by a god,
gives the lie to his praising.
He is ever the messenger,
venturing far through the doors of the dead,
bearing a bowl of fresh-picked fruit.”
Source: Sonnets to Orpheus
“It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.”
“It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.”
“It is all about the individual. And we can all become a better world if we become better, more loving individuals ourselves. There is no other way that will ever work better than love.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity.”
“It is all about trusting your choice that you have already made.”
“It is all about your life, how you make the most of every circumstance to find the courage of being.”
“It is all alive. In me.”
Source: Borne
“it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You
“It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as designed be Versace. The candles, the incense.”
Source: Sugar, Baby
“It is all-essential to the continuance of our healthy national life that we should recognize this community of interest among our people. The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us, and therefore in public life that man is the best representative of each of us who seeks to do good to each by doing good to all; in other words, whose endeavor it is not to represent any special class and promote merely that class's selfish interests, but to represent all true and honest men of all sections and all classes and to work for their interests by working for our common country.”
Source: A Square Deal
“It is all falling indelibly into the past.”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“It is all gone, though Peter. All of it is gone! And there is no way to get it back.
'Eat,' said Leo Matienne again, very gently.
Peter looked the truth of what he had lost full in the face.
And then he ate.”
Source: The Magician's Elephant
“It is all here. You make the choice.”
“It is all in the way of professional experience.”
“It is all joy when you meet Jesus.”
“It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.”
Source: Outside Wonderland: A Novel
“It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)
“It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the table, and we all push toward equality. The leadership numbers for women in business really haven't changed since I began as CEO. There are only 21 female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, there is only 17 to 19 percent of female representatives in Congress, there are only eight female governors.”
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”
“It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.”
Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution
“It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.”