I Quotes
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“It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.”
“It is here, in the secret recesses of the heart, that the relationship with the Beloved takes place. He was always here, waiting to be born into consciousness. But we need to prepare ourself for this meeting, we need to align ourself to the inner vibrations of the Self. How can you notice your invisible lover when your consciousness is filled with the outer world? How can you enter the sacred space of your own heart wearing boots muddied with the desires of the ego? Here lies the esoteric meaning of the immaculate conception. For the Beloved to be conceived as a living presence we need to go through a process of inner purification. (p. 29)”
Source: The Bond with the Beloved: The Mystical Relationship of the Lover & the Beloved
“It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here that wonder comes upon my blood, here I want to live forever; and it is no matter that I must die.”
“It is here that we encounter the
central theme of existentialism:
to live is to suffer, to survive is to
find meaning in the suffering. If
there is a purpose in life at all,
there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself,
and must accept the responsibility
that his answer prescribes.”
“It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported”
“It is here where education is championed and gratefully pursued as the human right which many in our world classify it to be. For although regarded as a human right, many entitled to education often dismiss its equal standing to other rights of a similar plane: water, food, shelter. Without water, many perish; with education, many complain.”
Source: The Local School
“It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.”
“It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.”
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila
“It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.”
“It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
“It is heretical to assert that an imaginary son, rather than the sun, is the true rising saviour. After all, what would happen if the sun itself faltered and refused to shine?”
“It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.”
“It is hidden but always present.”
“It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.”
Source: Because I was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg
“It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.”
“It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.”
“It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the life-force; this will not detract from their goodness, as long as they stand courageously by the truth. There is ground for hope in the fact that among millions of decent, hard-working people there are only a few plague-ridden individuals, who do untold harm by appealing to the dark, dangerous drives of the armored average man and mobilizing him for political murder. There is but one antidote to the average man's predisposition to plague: his own feelings for true life. The life force does not seek power but demands only to play its full and acknowledged part in human affairs. It manifests itself through love, work and knowledge.”
Source: Listen, Little Man!
“It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.”
“It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners with a militarism which is still stalking unchecked under the pretense of national needs and of international justice.”
Source: My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences
“It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he -- or she -- is traveling abroad.”
“It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.”
“It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.”
“It is high time that we stopped thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about elections and started thinking patriotically as Americans about national security based on individual freedom. It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques-techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”
“It is high time that you break the shackles of separatism and with the glorious flames of love, compassion and humanism in heart, you assimilate the goodness from all around you. Let love and compassion reign over the modern human civilization and hatred be a matter of ancient history.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”
“It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.”
Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader
“It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.”
“it is high time we stop using the term “theory” while mentioning Evolution. The term “theory” somehow makes some people think of Evolution as an unproven “hypothesis”. Theory of Evolution is an incontrovertible fact of science. It is not a fictitious story like Creationism. It’s a hard reality. It is the bed-rock of Biology. Defying evolution means defying one’s own existence as a human being.”
Source: Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness
“It is higher and nobler to be kind.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.”
Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk
“It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“It is highly impossible for you to be successful at what you don’t love. Do what you love and love what you do.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.”
Source: Century of the Wind
“It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life.”
Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell
“It is highly likely that one of the two of them [ Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ] is going to be the nominee. This is a - look here, what is this - what this is really is a prescription for remaking the Republican Party.”
“It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.”
Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques
“It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.”
“It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)”
“It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.”
“It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.”
“It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...”
“It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.”
Source: Sweetness in the Belly
“It is his actions that are causing me to consider leaving him. He is responsible for the hurt he feels as a result of his behavior. It is not selfish to protect myself from harm.”
“It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“It is his grace that allows us to experience our sunrise and sunset. And it is his love that redeems us in the time between.”
Source: The Power of Fear
“It is his incurable illness to regard the accidental as necessary.”
Source: The Closed Commercial State
“It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.”