I Quotes
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“It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.”
Source: The spectator
“It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.”
“It is an important part of our life’s experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.”
“It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.”
“It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects”
“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.”
Source: De Quincey's works
“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
“It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.”
“It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.”
“It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.”
Source: Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
“It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul.
Forgiveness isn't weakness.
It is power.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.”
Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.”
“It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about”
“It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing democracy out there in rural Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in Pittsburgh.”
“It is an indescribable
experience knowing that
what you are doing will have
an impact on the lives... of
millions of people.”
“It is an indication of Chelski's warped finances that even successive titles can be regarded as failure. Spend unprecedented sums and only unprecedented success can be commensurate. Chelski won't get the credit they think they deserve because of the money they've spent. There's £300m worth of difference between a victory and an achievement.”
“It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that lead them to think of a farm as a place where animals wander around freely in idyllic conditions might be able to live out their entire lives without ever being forced to revise this rosy image.”
“It is an indisputable fact that the more expensive something is, the better it is.”
Source: The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer
“It is an inescapable fact that we already know enough to strengthen with our mind the body's repair forces so that illness can be combatted more successfully.”
Source: The Silva Mind Control Method
“It is an infantile sense to open your ears to get a whiff of”
“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
“It is an infinite merit to be able to despair.”
Source: The Sickness Unto Death
“It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.”
“It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.”
“It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.”
Source: Complete Essays
“It is an injustice to say that Jesus Christ labored in redemption to make me a saint. Jesus Christ labored in redemption to redeem the whole world and to place it perfectly whole and restored before God.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“It is an inner journey to discover one's life purpose followed by its realization. It is a journey of 'becoming' and does not have a fixed end game. The destination, like the purpose of life, is a moving target. That is why life should also be lived and dealt with like a moving target that is constantly upgrading and evolving.”
Source: Beyond The Dark Night of the Soul - Master Del Pe
“It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.”
Source: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
“It is an insult to a wise person when his motives for guiding are questioned. However, he understands that people aren’t used to free gifts and still helps them anyway.”
“It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument - their intellect - which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.”
“It is an insult to live in the fear of darkness.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814
“It is an insult to the many victims of political undercover policing that the police who are responsible for serious human rights abuses have been allowed to cover up the truth and withhold information from those they abused. The public inquiry should release as a matter of urgency the cover names of all these political police and also the files they compiled on campaigners, so that those spied on are able to understand what happened and give relevant evidence to the inquiry.”
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.”
“It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.”
“It is an interesting fact about model selection that the evidence at hand can indicate that a model known to be false will be more predictively accurate than a model known to be true. This opens the door to a kind of instrumentalism.”
“It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.”
“It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2002
“It is an interesting thing, love ,” the Princess stated. “It can turn lambs into heroes, and heroes into lambs.”
Source: The Wall Outside
“It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.”
Source: The City of Mirrors
“It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.”
Source: The Shape of Content
“It is an intolerable anguish to hate someone you loved so badly, because neither emotion can ever feel honest again.”
“It is an invaluable skill to be able to be our own best friend in times of struggle, with complete freedom from judgement.”
“It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.”
“It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.”
Source: Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt
“It is an ironic footnote on Peter Stuyvesant’s frenzy at the idea of surrender that he passed his last days, in the late 1660s and early 1670s, in peaceful contentment on his farm in Manhattan, not only unmolested but in friendship with Governor Nicolls. Shorn of power, Peter Stuyvesant was a happier and perhaps a wiser man.”
Source: Conceived in Liberty Volumes I-IV
“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”
Source: Love and will
“It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.”