I Quotes
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“It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are situate within the circle of our knowledge, as well all others throughout immensity, are each and every one of them possessed or inhabited by some intelligent agents or other, however different their sensations or manners of receiving or communicating their ideas may be from ours, or however different from each other.”
Source: Reason the Only Oracle of Man: Or a Compendious System of Natural Religion
“It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.”
“It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.”
Source: Ten Plays
“It is always a bonus to come out of a severe storm alive and with the home still intact!”
“It is always a danger when you have a big game ahead, but there is only one way to prepare well for our Champions League game - and that is to do well tomorrow. Therefore, I feel there is a lot at stake for us tomorrow. It is a massive game for us.”
“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”
“It is always a good idea to be good and kind to yourself. Do whatever it takes to treat yourself with love and gentleness. You are a rare gem.”
Source: Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen
“it is always a good time to be kind 10/02/19 11:48AM
invest your mind in affairs that revive. uplift. And excite your soul 4/14/19 9:51am”
“It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!”
“It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that man has no soul; he has only 'body' and 'mind'. Man's unshakable belief on the soul will not change this scientific truth! No belief can be higher than the scientific truths! Man can be born, can walk and work and can think without owning a mysterious and an immaterial soul! The soullessness of the man is a great tragedy both for the man and for the religion. But Man, contrary to the religion, will come out with triumph from this tragedy.”
“It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure.”
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.”
Source: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.”
“It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.”
Source: The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life
“It is always a most delightful moment for me when people contact me via mail or approach me at game fairs and thank me for the many enjoyable hours I have brought them with my games.”
“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
Source: Getting Well
“It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.”
“It is always a poet's winter.”
Source: Squandering the Blue: Stories
“It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own.
[Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]”
“It is always a problem to know what an image means.”
“It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.”
Source: What the Buddha Taught
“it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.”
Source: Beware of Pity
“It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.”
“It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.”
“It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.”
“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.”
“It is always a summer love that prepares you for the inevitable cold winters which visit your life.”
Source: Distilled Thoughts
“It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.”
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
“It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:-
'Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you,
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'”
“It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.”
“It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.”
“It is always about truly listening to what clients want and tailoring our responses to match their preferences.”
“It is always about you for me.”
“It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.”
“It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner”
“It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.”
“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”
Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution
“It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.”
Source: The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
“It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.”
Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation
“It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world. I can't imagine what people must think as they read my books in Poland. Or in Hebrew and Greek. People are reading all the stories which are about bits of Western Australia.”
“It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.”
“It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.”
“It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.”
“It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.”
“It is always annoying, however modest an opinion we may have of ourselves, to be classed as a probable example to universal rule.”
Source: The Rubicon
“It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he is an artist in divining a great deal from the little that he has felt. Artist are by no means people of great passion, but they frequently present themselves as such, unconsciously sensing that others give greater credence to the passions they portray if the artist's own life testifies to his experience in this area. We need only let ourselves go, not control ourselves, give free play to our wrath or our desire, and the whole world immediately cries: how passionate he is! But there really is something significant in a deeply gnawing passion that consumes and often swallows up an individual: whoever experiences this surely does not describe it in dramas, music, or novels. Artists are frequently unbridled individuals, insofar, that is, as they are not artists: but that is something different.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.”
“It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.”