I Quotes
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“It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.”
“It is always wonderful to see how beautiful other people's hearts can be.”
“It is always worth it to rise to a challenge as happiness is often the result.”
Source: Flappy: The Pigeon Who Overcame Bullying. From Zero To Hero!
“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“It is always wrong to enrich yourself at the expense of others.”
“It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.”
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“It is always your next move.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“It is always your responsibility to make and own your choice.”
“it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets”
Source: A Room on Lorelei Street
“It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.”
“it is amazing how all our paths of rebellion tend to lead us straight back home.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.”
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
“It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.”
“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the world are still like this. Don’t question what you are taught! Just listen and get good marks on the test! It conditions us to be slaves. The minute we abandon our inquisitive nature, we cede our consciences to the whims of tyrants. We are capable of better. We owe it to ourselves and each other to create better opportunities that enhance human potential. Education is the externality that allows for this, but our methods of education must promote self-guidance and self-reliance.”
Source: Sinew of the Social Species
“It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.”
“It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.”
“It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.”
“It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.”
“It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.”
Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader
“It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.”
“It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.”
“It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
Source: They Call Me Coach
“It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.”
“It is amazing how much knowledge we have of hope. Whisper bravely into the dark, heart — whisper bravely.”
Source: After and Before the Lightning
“It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries”
“It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."”
“It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect”
Source: Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“It is amazing how much the human spirit can stand of loss and panic. What gives us the courage to go on?”
Source: Lady Slippers
“It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.”
“It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.”
Source: Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit
“It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.”
“It is amazing how often one may be thought heroic simply by being discovered in the wreckage afterwards.”
Source: The Secretly Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder
“It is amazing how often people who cannot control their own emotions always want to control other people’s behaviors.”
“It is amazing how people that do shitty things to other people always forget—
but /Karma never forgets/ these /hidden evil/ people
in here.
Excerpt: here by Sondra Faye”
Source: Here
“It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.”
“It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.”
“It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.”
“It is amazing how the Powerful God provides.”
“It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.”
“It is amazing how the truth is just out there or what somebody's actually said, and you have your little knee-jerk reactions.”
“It is amazing how the world changes as we do.
I have felt it myself,
and I hope someday you can feel it too.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“It is amazing how women spend too much time and energy scheming, plotting and seducing men when they should spend more time listening, learning and getting over desperation.”
Source: 11.11.11 After so Many Years of Tears: Letters to My Distant Soul-Mate
“It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main reason is, of course, the philosophical or spiritual element in this story. We know as little today about the secrets of Creation and evolution as we knew before, and it is not likely that we'll ever know much more. We'll have to be satisfied, as Kubrick was, respectfully admiring the potential for evolution within the mystery of the universe's creation.”
“It is amazing that Jeff Sessions is still in the job. Any self-respecting Attorney General of the United States would have publicly resigned as soon as the president`s words became public. It is now clear that Jeff Sessions is going to be a witness against the president of the United States. It`s also clear that the Donald Trump's defense to special prosecutor Robert Mueller is going to be, "I don`t remember".”