I Quotes
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“It is an attention-getter. I mean, its hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.”
“It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.”
“It is an awesome thing to comprehend that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.”
“It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.”
“It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.”
“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.”
Source: Every Day
“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.”
Source: Every Day
“It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.”
Source: Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc
“It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I'd be looking for a new job.”
“It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.”
“It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
“It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.”
“It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.”
“It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.”
“It is an axiom of politics that if there are real problems that responsible people aren't addressing, irresponsible people will exploit them.”
“It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.”
“It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.”
Source: Angle of Repose
“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.”
Source: Elsie's Motherhood
“It is an easy thing to overlook true love.
Our eyes are searching for event and objects
Found in movies,
Novels,
And journals bursting with dreams.
We glance above the murky reality.
Our hearts do not notice the consistent presence
Of loyalty,
Friendship,
And dishes again scrubbed clean”
Source: Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope
“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.”
“It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.”
“It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.”
“It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.”
Source: Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
“IT is an enabler and catalyst for the company to reach the next level of business growth and maturity.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816
“It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.”
“It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do”
Source: The spectator
“It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.”
“It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.”
Source: The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science
“It is an enormous mistake to assume that what the translator conveys is what the speaker intended, and it is equally foolish to assume that what you intended to say is what will be understood.”
Source: Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
“It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.”
“It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but rather that He inaugurated a religious movement adapted, or to be adapted, to different times and different places.”
“It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.”
Source: We
“It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.”
“It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves.”
“It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.”
“It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.”
“It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country
to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force within
its limits.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.”
Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.”
Source: Selected Melanie Klein
“It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.”
Source: The God Delusion
“It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.”