I Quotes
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“It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.”
Source: Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good
“It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure”
“It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.”
Source: Childbirth Without Fear
“It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.”
Source: The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus
“It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.”
“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.”
“It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.”
“It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“It is as hard to take success as it is failure.”
“It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.”
“It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.”
Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have done nothing at all. So people have come into the world for particular tasks, and that is our purpose. If we don't perform it, we will have done nothing.”
“It is as if a Mohammedan, while recognizing the divine mission of the Arab prophet, were to write for his son a treatise on the ethics of the New Testament as better adapted than the moral system of the Koran for the training and confirming of a young man in the practice of virtue.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Cicero: Includes Pdf Ebook
“It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.”
Source: Word and Sacrament
“It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.”
“It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“It is as if families on the run are shattered by something other than just grenades. The flight and fear tears us apart and those parts land in all kinds of places - we don't even know where. But we always try to find them afterwards.”
Source: Tea-Bag
“It is as if friendship requires that we go through things together - schooldays, gap years, college, choosing careers, chasing girls, getting married, having children. A shared purpose in later life does not suffice.”
Source: The Misogynist
“It is as if, he thought, the mist represents my life outside of here and now, and that anything else is still "out there", to be discovered, or not.”
Source: The Awakened
“It is as if I can see my body in front of me.”
“It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“It is as if I had made you believe
In me once again
It is as if you knew I was your true love
It was as if I didn't have to know
In this life
All you were to me
Was that flower”
Source: Rome: Poems
“It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the Bardo are contained in the Tibetan book of the dead- a guide for the living since it teaches that a man’s last thoughts will determine the quality of his reincarnation.”
Source: The Snow Leopard
“It is as if I were in a ship where I am allowed to walk about the pass along the gangways or among the benches, but this petty movement is not at all significant enough to hinder the ship's course. So it is in this fatal bark that bears us all along: our wills are permitted to run one way or another, not to turn the ship from its course or stop it.”
Source: Justus Lipsius: On Constancy
“It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.”
Source: Diaries, 1910-1923
“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”
Source: The Confessions
“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It is as if Nature has declared a harsh X prize; survive if you do, die if you do not.”
Source: Super Dense Crush Load: The Story of Man Redux
“It is as if, oddly, you were waiting for someone but you didn’t know who they were until they arrived. Whether or not you were aware that there was something missing in your life, you will be when you meet the person you want. What psychoanalysis will add to this love story is that the person you fall in love with really is the man or woman of your dreams; that you have dreamed them up before you met them; not out of nothing — nothing comes of nothing — but out of prior experience, both real and wished for. You recognize them with such certainty because you already, in a certain sense, know them; and because you have quite literally been expecting them, you feel as though you have known them for ever, and yet, at the same time, they are quite foreign to you. They are familiar foreign bodies.”
Source: Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
“It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.”
Source: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
“It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.”
Source: What Photography Is
“It is as if people have an illness. Their mind has a disease that has spread uncontrollably. The deadly disease is called racism, and the cure is a combination of love and respect for others.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin.”
“It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.”
“It is as if sometimes a very strong wind blows from the future to the present time and brings the events you will encounter in the future to this day!”
“It is as if the angels had just done their laundry and, owning no other wealth than love, they are always clothed in the same light, worn transparent from so many washings.”
“It is as if the formation of patterns within the unconscious mind is accompanied by physical patterns in the outer world. In particular, as psychic patterns are on the point of reaching consciousness, the synchronicities reach their peak; moreover, they generally disappear as the individual becomes consciously aware of a new alignment of forces within his or her own personality...It is as if the internal restructuring produces external resonance, or as if a burst of 'mental energy' is propagated outward onto the world.”
“It is as if the internet has turned into a giant reality show, where the contestants are everyday people trying to outdo each other in a quest for likes and shares.”
Source: Clickonomics: How to Win Customers and Influence People on the Internet
“It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.”
Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation
“It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.”
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping.
Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.
It weeps
for the black people who think like white people.
It weeps
for the Indians who think like settlers.
It weeps
for the children who think like adults.
It weeps
for the free who think like prisoners.
Most of all, it weeps
for the cowgirls who think like cowboys.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.”
“It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an 'invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things'?”
Source: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
“It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“It is as if we are all tempted to view ourselves as men on horseback. The horse represents a lusty animal-way of living, untrammeled by reason, unguided by purpose. The rider represents independent, impartial thought, a sort of pure cold intelligence. Too often the pilgrim lives as though his goal is to become the horseman who would break the horse's spirit so that he can control him, so that he may ride safely and comfortably wherever he wishes to go. If he does not wish to struggle for discipline, it is because he believes that his only options will be either to live the lusty, undirected life of the riderless horse, or to tread the detached, unadventuresome way of the horseless rider. If neither of these, then he must be the rider struggling to gain control of his rebellious mount. He does not see that there will be no struggle, once he recognizes himself as a centaur.”
Source: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
“It is as if we have reentered the past and are living in a second Nadir: It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era. There was a lynching every four days in the early decades of the twentieth century. It’s been estimated that an African American is now killed by police every two to three days.”
Source: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
“It is as if, when they are together, they exist only in the eternal present. And he knows, in the deepest part of himself, that this very fact carries its own particular allure: that it may never be matched by the humdrum rhythms of the everyday.”
Source: Versiones de nosotros (Alianza Literaria (AL))