I Quotes
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“It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.”
Source: Think Yourself Wealthy
“It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.”
“It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.”
Source: Intimate Journals
“It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.”
“It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.”
“It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.”
“It is easy to work when the soul is at play.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“It is easy to write unthinking music.”
“It is easy to write when you don't know how.”
“It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
“It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”
Source: Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains
“It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.”
“It is economism to allow material gain to obscure the danger that we may forfeit liberty, variety, and justice and that the concentration of power may grow, and it is also economism to forget that people do not live by cheaper vacuum cleaners alone but by other and higher things which may wither in the shadows of giant industries and monopolies.”
Source: A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
“It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.”
“It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.”
“It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.”
“It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day-
A sunny day with the leaves just turning,
The touch-lines new-ruled - since I watched you play
Your first game of fotball, then, like a satellite
Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away
Behind a scatter of boys. I can see
You walking away from me towards the school
with the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free
Into a wilderness, the gait of one
Who finds no path where the path should be.
That hesitant figure, eddying away
Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem,
Has something I never quite grasp to convey
About nature's give-and-take - the small, the scorching
Ordeals which fire one's irresolute clay.
I had worse partings, but none that so
Gnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly
Saying what God alone could perfectly show-
How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love proved in the letting go.”
“It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
“It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!”
“It is either Christ or chaos.”
“It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.”
Source: Calculating God
“It is either easy or impossible.”
“it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.”
Source: The electric kool-aid acid test
“It is either you are converting, spending or wasting time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is either you are converting time into a product or into a value chain or you are killing, wasting and throwing away your life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is either you believe in yourself or believe what other people think, or makes you think, of yourself. Sounds familiar, but quite different from each other.”
“it is either you happen to life or life happens to you.”
“It is either you spend more time recording and less time mixing, or your spend less recording and more time mixing.”
“It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificial lighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them.”
“It is embarrassing that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mCommerce.”
“It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons”
Source: Jenny Holzer: xenon
“It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.”
Source: The Defender's Guide for Life's Toughest Questions
“It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.”
Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things
“It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.”
“It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.”
Source: Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick
“It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.”
“It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic soup ever existed on this planet. We may therefore with fairness call this scenario the myth of the pre-biotic soup.”
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.”
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty.”
“It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action”
Source: Character
“It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.”
“It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea -- It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.”
Source: Love Songs
“It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.”
Source: A short history of decay
“It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Maxims
“It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.”
“IT is enough for the Men to find a thing establish'd to make them believe it well grounded. In all countries we are seen in subjection and absolute dependence on the Men, without being admitted to the advantages of sciences, or the opportunity of exerting our capacity in a public station. Hence the Men, according to their usual talent of arguing from seemings, conclude that we ought to be so. (...)
But why do the Men persuade themselves that we are less fit for public employments than they are? Can they give any better reason than custom and prejudice form'd in them by external appearances (...)? (...) For if Women are but consider'd as rational creatures, abstracted from the disadvantages imposed upon them by the unjust usurpation and tyranny of the Men, they will be found, to the full, as capable as the Men, of filling these offices.”
Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man