I Quotes
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“It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.”
Source: The Reptile Room
“It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen.”
“It is assignment that determines your attainment in life.”
“It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.”
“It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.”
“It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.”
“It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.”
“It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet.”
Source: Black and White
“It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.”
Source: Paperweight
“It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.”
“It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.”
Source: A Way of Being
“It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.”
Source: Dune: House Corrino
“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.”
“It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.”
“It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.”
“It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.”
“It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality—a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death.”
Source: On Booze
“It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.”
“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
Source: Coraline
“It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.”
Source: Sermons
“It is astonishing that Communism has been writing about itself in the most open way, in black and white, for 125 years, and even more openly, more candidly in the beginning. The [book:Communist Manifesto|30474, for instance, which everyone knows by name and which almost no one takes the trouble to read, contains even more terrible things than what has actually been done. It is perfectly amazing. The whole world can read, everyone is literate, yet somehow no one wants to understand. Humanity acts as if it does not understand what Communism is, as if it does not want to understand, is not capable of understanding.”
Source: Warning to the West
“It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.”
“It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.”
“It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.”
“It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement is to lead men astray from the plainest paths of reason and conviction.”
Source: The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793
“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”
“It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.”
Source: How and why we age
“It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!”
“It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.”
“It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.”
“It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.”
“It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.”
Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.”
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man
“It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.”
“It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.”
“It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.”
Source: Facing a World in Crisis: What Life Teaches Us in Challenging Times
“It is astounding how it's harder to find a person that you "really, really like" than it is to find someone "you love." Why is this? Because we accept the love that we think we deserve. And that usually is ANY love that wants to come along and love us. Also, we are very giving of our love. We love things that we don't like, all the time! We do in fact measure "love" based upon our ability to love the unloveable or the least loveable. If we can do that-- our love must be pure! We love a parent who made our lives hell, we explain away all their wrongdoings; we love someone who has abused us, beaten us up and betrayed us; we take pride in loving what is not loveable. And this is why romantic relationships fail left and right: because we should be with someone we really, really like. And that's harder to find. We should find someone whom we actually really dig, and who really digs us. A person. Not a concept of what we want to perform and enact just because we believe that makes us able to fulfill a "pure love". We cannot stay in toxic, unfulfilling relationships just because we love the person or just because they love us. We have to actually really, really like them and they us.”
“It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.”
“It is astounding how, when in the womblike embrace of warm water, we can fool ourselves that we can still be children.”
Source: Burying the Shadow
“It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.”
Source: The Undiscovered Self
“It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.”
Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.”
Source: Tortilla Flat
“It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.”
“It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.”