I Quotes
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“It is defeat which educates us.”
“It is definitely a hard show [True Blood] to jump into the middle of, but luckily we have things like HBO Go now. It's not like you've missed it and now you're stuck. And I think once guys give it a shot - and you'll be able to speak to this better than I will - there's a lot of stuff that can be interesting to guys. There's a lot of action. Plenty of people are getting their heads chopped off.”
“It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.”
“It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.”
“It is definitely not a coincidence that they are called 'tears'.”
“It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.”
“It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.”
“It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“It is dehumanizing, demeaning and humiliating when you fail or refuse to acknowledge or respond to a Good Morning greeting. #Mannerism”
“It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action.”
Source: Fundamentalism
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.”
Source: 1984
“It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.”
“It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.”
“It is delivery that makes the orators success.”
“It is delusional to seek peace and prosperity by settling for a safe life devoted to appeasing other people. We live only once. A person whom pursues outward applause for their life by gaining a sense of status in other people’s eyes surrenders their own values. A princely life demands more than appeasing a phantom audience. I aspire to live an authentic life by following my passion no matter where it leads.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.”
“It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul.”
“It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning subsequently to this period; and where is that beginning to be found, but in the will and fiat of an intelligent and all-wise Creator?”
Source: The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
“It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.”
Source: A History of American Political Theories
“It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.”
“It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!”
“It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power.”
“It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.”
“It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.”
“It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.”
“It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.”
“It is desire that pulls us forward. If a desire is fulfilled, are we forever destined to find another to take its place?”
“It is despair that nothing cannot be
Flares in the mind and leaves a smoky mark
Of dread.
Look upward. Neither firm nor free,
Purposeless matter hovers in the dark.”
“It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.”
“It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.”
“It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny”
“It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.”
Source: The Night Circus
“It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.”
“It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.”
“It is dieing in the pain we're I am trying to find ma love of my life , were she meant to me in ma life and I meant to be her life. But she is there and and she is also finding her half a part . But try in me and trying her , will change the trying into " trying " - TWO OF OUR YOUNG INTENDED NOT ONCE BUT DELIBERATED.”
“It is dieing in the pain we're I am trying to find ma love of my life , were she meant to me in ma life and I meant to be her life. But she is there and she is also finding her half a part . But try in me and trying her , will change the trying into " trying " - TWO OF OUR YOUNG INTENDED NOT ONCE BUT DELIBERATED.”
“It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.”
“It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.”
Source: The Solitaire Mystery
“It is difficult, almost impossible, in fact, for the scientific community to recognize the fact that Cartesian bifurcation is a philosophic postulate, for which there is absolutely no scientific basis [...] It is not that they can conceive or imagine a scientific proof of that hypothesis; it is rather that they are unable to conceive that it might not be true.”
“It is difficult and stressful due to the goals we have in our organisations; to experience higher yields and eventual capital growth in years to come, which were almost completely wiped out due to more than 10 years setbacks”
“It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.”
Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
“It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.”
Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
“It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.”
“It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend.”
“It is difficult, charming ladies, for us to know what is truly in our best interest. For, as we have frequently observed, there are many who have thought that if only they were rich, they would be able to lead secure, trouble-free lives, and they have not just prayed to God for wealth, but have made every effort to acquire it, sparing themselves neither effort nor danger in the process. However, no sooner did they succeed than the prospect of a substantial legacy led to their being murdered by people who would never have considered harming them before then. Others have risen from low estate to the heights of power, passing through the dangers of a thousand battles and shedding the blood of their brothers and friends to get there, all because of their belief that to rule was felicity itself. And yet, as they could have seen and heard for themselves, it was a felicity fraught with endless cares and fears, and when it cost them their lives, they finally realized that at the tables of royalty chalices may contain poison, even though they are made of gold. Again, there have been many who have ardently yearned for physical strength and beauty, while others have sought bodily ornaments with equal passion, only to discover that the things they unwisely desired were the cause of misery or even death.
But to avoid reviewing every conceivable human desire, let me simply affirm that no person alive can choose any one of them in complete confidence that it will remain immune from the vicissitudes of Fortune.”
“It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.”
Source: Essays in Science