I Quotes
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“It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.”
“It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.”
Source: La Fanfarlo
“It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.”
“It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.”
“It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.”
“It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to see the ghosts of Alfred and Becket. Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.”
Source: What I Saw in America
“It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.”
“It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.”
“It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.”
“It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return.I am here because there is no other place to be.”
“It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.”
“It is at night, especially when the moon is gibbous and waning, that I see the thing. I tried morphine; but the drug has given only transient surcease, and has drawn me into its clutches as a hopeless slave. So now I am to end it all, having written a full account for the information or the contemptuous amusement of my fellow-men. Often I ask myself if it could not all have been a pure phantasm—a mere freak of fever as I lay sun-stricken and raving in the open boat after my escape from the German man-of-war. This I ask myself, but ever does there come before me a hideously vivid vision in reply. I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind—of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.”
Source: Great Tales of Horror
“It is at night that faith in light is admirable.”
“It is at night that light gets all its beauty.”
“It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.”
Source: Katie in Love
“It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.”
“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”
“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.”
“It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.”
“It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.”
Source: The Stakes of Diplomacy
“It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits”
Source: Spring and All
“It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.”
Source: Silence Once Begun: A Novel
“It is at the moment that we began to pray that the darkness begins to die.”
“It is at the name of Jesus, the Christ made man, that every knee is to bend in heaven. The overwhelming revelation made to the angels in the mystery of the Ascension is not that they are to adore the Eternal Word --- that is already the object of their liturgy; but rather, they are to adore the Word Incarnate --- and that overturns all of heaven, just as the Incarnation revolutionized all the earth.”
Source: The Angels and Their Mission: According to the Fathers of the Church
“It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort.”
“It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past”
“It is at the top of a tree where you find the sweetest fruits.”
“It is at this level that racism is treated as a question of persons.
There are a few hopeless racists, but you must admit that on the whole the population likes....
With time all this will disappear.
This is the country where there is the least amount of race prejudice.
At the United Nations there is a commission to fight race prejudice.
Films on race prejudice, poems on race prejudice, messages on race prejudice.
Spectacular and futile condemnations of race prejudice. In reality, a colonial country is a racist country. If in England, in Belgium, or in France, despite the democratic principles affirmed by these respective nations, there are still racists, it is these racists who, in their opposition to the country as a whole, are logically consistent.”
Source: Toward the African Revolution
“It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.”
“It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.”
Source: The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)
“It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.”
“It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.”
“It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.”
Source: Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations ...
“It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.”
“It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.”
“It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.”
“It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals.”
Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci
“It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.”
Source: Once bitten, twice bitten: poems
“It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.”
“It is awesome to note that the works your work are working but that should not be a joy. The ultimate joy should be that the works of your work are indelible.”
Source: The Untapped Wonderer In You: dare to do the undone
“It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929
“It is awful to contemplate this sort of life, in which one would always be forced into motion by a variety of mysterious and powerful forces, never staying anywhere for long, never finding a safe place one could call home, never able to turn the tables for very long, just as the Baudelaire orphans found it awful to contemplate their own lives [...] just when it seemed they might break out of the tedious cycle of unfortunate events in which they found themselves trapped.”
Source: The Grim Grotto
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“It is awfully hard work doing nothing.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.”
“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business”
Source: Writings, 1932-1946