I Quotes
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“It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That's not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don't believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can't do it.”
“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
“It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.”
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her”
Source: Emma
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
Source: Emma: A Novel
“It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.”
“It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.”
“It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.”
Source: Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
“It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.”
Source: Sethra Lavode
“it is always midnight in those pools”
Source: Falling Awake
“It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.”
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.”
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”
Source: The Gathering Storm
“It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.”
“It is always more valuable to report the truth.”
“It is always morning, the caravan is always departing. All we can do is share the Prophet's prayer - "O Lord increase our amazement" - and set forth into the Bewilderness.”
Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
“It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.”
“It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.”
Source: John Constable's Correspondence
“It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.”
“It is always nice to be reckless and wild in the presence of a good company, because you know nothing bad will happen to you.”
“It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.”
“It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.”
“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear
“It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.”
Source: An English Year
“It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.”
“It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.”
“It is always our inabilities that vex us.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“It is always our objective to have close ties with the United States. We're at a transitional period of our history and we're on a road to reform.”
“It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.”
“It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“It is always pathetic to watch the efforts a man makes to cling to a straw, especially when one is oneself the straw.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3
“It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.”
Source: Day of the Minotaur
“It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing”
Source: Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991
“It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.”
“It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!”
“It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.”
Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!”
“It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.”
Source: Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions
“It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.”
Source: Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences
“It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!”
“It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.”
“It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“It is always possible to create something original.”
“It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.”
“It is always possible to improve.”