I Quotes
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“It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.”
“It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.”
“It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.”
Source: Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire
“It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.”
“It is all the dance. It is all God.”
Source: Spiritual Misfits: Collaboration and Belonging in a Divisive World
“It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.”
“it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)
“It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.”
Source: Adaptation to Life
“It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.”
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
“It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?”
“It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves as less fortunate than others, by repeatedly talking about eh billions of dollars in 'windfall profits' earned by major corporations, by featuring periodic stories on the opulent living of wealthy individuals, or by pointing an accusing finger at 'loopholes' used by 'the rich.'”
“It is all too easy, in the atmosphere of intellectual fog that pervades Liberal and Humanist circles today, to allow sympathy for an unfortunate person to pass over into receptivity to his ideas. The Nihilist, to be sure, is in some sense "sick," and his sickness is a testimony to the sickness of an age whose best--as well as worst--elements turn to Nihilism; but sickness is not cured, nor even properly diagnosed by "sympathy." In any case there is no such thing as an entirely "innocent victim.”
Source: Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
“It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.”
“It is all too easy to focus intently on what is posted on social media that we forget such displays are highly idealized.”
“It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.”
Source: The God Delusion
“It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.”
“It is all too natural for people who have been wronged or humiliated-- or feel they have been-- to harbor the fantasy that a writer will come along on a white steed and put everything to rights. As MacDonald v McGinniss illustrates, the writer who comes along is apt to only make things worse. What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self-absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.”
“It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.”
Source: A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain
“It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.”
“It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.”
Source: Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection
“It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort.”
“It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.”
“It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.”
“it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.”
“It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.”
“It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.”
“It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.”
“It is all very well to have some internal sense of oneself as an individual, but that sense must correspond to an external reality. Part of that external reality is property. The fact that something belongs to me and not to everyone increases my sense of myself as someone in particular. For Hegel that sense of individual particularity is intrinsic to the modern moral order. Indeed "the right of the subject's particularity to find satisfaction, or--to put it differently--the right of subjective freedom, is the pivotal and focal point in the difference between antiquity and the modern age." The fact that others do not take my property--that they regard it as mine--is also a way in which they recognize me as an individual. It is precisely this recognition that the slave, the bondsman, and the serf lack. That the right to own private property, to control some corner of the world, is universal in the modern state is for Hegel part of its glory. (p. 155)”
Source: The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
“It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.”
“It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.”
“It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.”
Source: The Remains of the Day
“It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.”
“It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.”
Source: The House of Arden
“It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.”
“It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season...”
“It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.”
“It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.”
Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention
“It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.”
“It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political station. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of immorality , he abuses his civic responsibilty. He sacrifices not only his own interest but that of his neighbor, and he betrays the interest of his country.”
“It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . .”
“It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.”
“It is alleged that President Trump does not follow USA government guidelines regarding sexually transmitted diseases (STD).”
“It is alleged that President Trump likes his mistresses to say: No condom, no problem.”
“It is alluring to interrogate my choices, but maybe the alternatives aren’t that expansive to select from. Perhaps fellows, in their absoluteness, are just despicable individuals.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.”
“It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.”
Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America
“It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.”
Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
“It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.”