I Quotes
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“It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the prodigal son while he was at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him.”
Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth
“It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.”
Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...
“It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action”
Source: A Gospel for the Social Awakening: Selections from the Writings of Walter Rauschenbusch
“It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.”
“It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.”
Source: Collected Works
“It is for you to decide what you will contribute to this world... Will you contribute to the love that is in the world or the fear? This is the same opportunity that presents itself each moment.”
“It is for your benefit for me to tell you that, it is safe and secure for you to get the Stellah Mupanduki books breathed by the Holy Spirit of a Sovereign God and Written by the Finger of God Almighty and soar high above. You conquer cultural and traditional strongholds and you are set free from living a manipulated and oppressed life. You have strength in the Lord who is your God. You fear no evil. You defeat your enemies. No illness will conquer you.”
“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.”
“It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable... The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.”
“It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.”
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
“it is forbidden to love where we are not loved”
Source: Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body
“It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.”
“It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to cry, and want to cry, but what do tears do? I was so proud when first I began to conquer. ... Your cheeks feel white just the same, but inside, not outside. Nobody can tell to look at you. Nobody.”
“It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.”
Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.”
“It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.”
“It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”
“It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.”
“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”
Source: Backlog Studies
“It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.”
“It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.”
“It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.”
Source: The Annals
“It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.”
“It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.”
“It is freezing fit to split a stone.”
“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”
“It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.”
“It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary.... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint.”
“It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.”
“It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.”
“It is frightening for me to hear freshman art students talk about "branding," because, know it or not, they represent the last frontier. If the artists give up, there is no one else left. If we throw away our agency, being seduced into a corporate mentality so we can simply make our product to get our piece of the pie, we put another nail in the coffin of art's higher power.”
Source: Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
“It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.”
“It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.”
“It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”
Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)
“It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants...they will refuse to have 18 children.... If you treat Roman Catholics with due consideration and kindness, they will live like Protestants in spite of the authoritative nature of their Church.”
“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”
“It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
“It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
“It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.”
Source: Amarance
“It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.”
Source: Letters Papers from Prison
“It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'”
“It is from his grandmother that Henry learns that punctuation can be a weapon. With a comma you can hurt someone.”
Source: The Making of Henry
“It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.”
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.”
Source: An Honorable profession
“It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul. God comes in, and is everyone in me.”