I Quotes
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“It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated
“It is an act of courage to feel the deepest of feelings.... It is an act of endurance to carry the thickest of emotions and yet to remain expansive in joy....”
“It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.”
“It is an act of love to demand accountability for the dead. And it takes rage to prevent the same accidents from happening again.”
Source: There Are No Accidents
“It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.”
“It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.”
“It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.”
“It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.”
“It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.”
“It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.”
“It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.”
Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“It is an adventure of the immortal soul to adjust in the human mortal body and become a human being to get accustomed to the Earth.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“It is an aesthetic principle almost universally acknowledged among mathematicians that the best way to solve a problem is to find an ingenious way not to have to solve it at all.”
Source: Measurement
“It is an affront to shunt to the front. The displaced will grunt and confront with blunt insolence. That’s not a pretty brunt to bear.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.”
Source: An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix
“It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.”
Source: Studies and Essays
“It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.”
“It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.”
Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.”
“It is an amazement of riches, glacé fruits and marzipan flowers and mountains of loose chocolates of all shapes and colors, and rabbits, ducks, hens, chicks, lambs, gazing out at me with merry-grave chocolate eyes like the terra-cotta armies of ancient China, and above it all a statue of a woman, graceful brown arms holding a sheaf of chocolate wheat, hair rippling. The detail is beautifully rendered, the hair added in a darker grade of chocolate, the eyes brushed on in white. The smell of chocolate is overwhelming, the rich fleshly scent of it drags down the throat in an exquisite trail of sweetness.”
Source: Chocolat
“It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides restaurants with partitions so that unrelated males and females cannot sit together; that same society expects you to get into a car with a man who is not your relative, with a man who is a complete stranger, by yourself and have him take you somewhere inside a locked car, alone.”
Source: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
“It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve...”
“It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.”
Source: O Jerusalem
“It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.”
“It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.”
“It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences
“It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the Irish mind.”
Source: Literary and Historical Essays
“It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.”
“It is an animus, she decides, the representation of the Logos in the female, as the anima is the representation of Eros in the male. In its negative aspect it is opinionated, conventional, banal, self-righteous, argumentative . . . In its positive aspect, it conveys spirit, feistiness, the capacity for reflection and self-knowledge, the capacity to handle philosophical and religious ideas at the higher levels.”
Source: The Good Son
“It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.”
“It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.”
“It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.”
Source: The Dolls' House
“It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.”
“It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.”
Source: Human Happiness
“It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.”
“It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.”
Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims
“It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.
And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man.”
Source: A Conjuring of Light
“It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.”
Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel
“It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.”
“It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.”
Source: A Treatise on Insanity: In which are Contained the Principles of a New and More Practical Nosology of Maniacal Disorders Than Has Yet Been Offered to the Public ...
“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“It is an article of faith with the Democrats that they must fool Americans by simulating agreement with normal people. The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American.”
“It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.”
“It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.”
“It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.”
“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”
“It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level of education and privilege, one of the two political parties virtually denies the well-established facts about anthropogenic climate change.”
“It is an astonishing thing how little the average man in Africa knows about the rifles he uses-it is but a very small exaggeration to say that all he really does know is that the bullet comes out of the end which has a hole in it!”
Source: African Rifles and Cartridges
“IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.”