I Quotes
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“It is his raw ambition that draws her in, the impracticality of it all, this idea that he wants to do great things with words, that he wants to chase some kind of ancient fame, perhaps even become one of the people they read about in books.”
Source: If I Forget You
“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”
“It is his ultimate lie, Son of Honor. The lie that says you have no choice. The lie that there is no more journey worth taking.”
Source: Rhythm of War
“It is his vegetable ambition never to stir.”
Source: Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places
“It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions,
not repeated assessment of their validity.”
Source: Lateral Thinking: creativity step by step COTF MGT
“It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels.”
Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers.”
Source: Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
“It is history that has distorted our lives and complicated issues. The good thing is; whether we like it or not, a lot of us are still fighting. If there was no Nkrumah, there probably won't have been a Fela Anikulapo Kuti. I appreciate the fact that he stood and risked his life. I am proud of his courage, but if you asked if he was a conventional father who did homework with me and taught me music, he did nothing of this.”
“It is history that teaches us to hope.”
“It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It’s definitely always a place that’s going to be very special to me.”
“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
Source: Poetics
“It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".”
“It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.”
“It is hope that maintains most of mankind.”
“It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.”
“It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.”
Source: Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
“It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.”
Source: The Tea Rose
“It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.”
“It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.”
Source: Life On The Mississippi
“It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.”
“It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”
“it is horrible being all alone.”
Source: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.”
“It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.”
“It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.”
“It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.”
“It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day”
Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
“It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.”
“It is hot in Tokyo, it’s humid, I’m tired, all of these backs are in front of you, I’m not going to make the team anyway so screw it. I remember going back and I called down to the desk. I was asking about some flights out of there.”
“It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,' I say. 'Only untested' -page 569”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.”
Source: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
“It is how we enter through the doorway that determines the outcome of our life.”
“It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.”
“It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“It is how you show up at the showdown that counts.”
“It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.”
“It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“It is however good when people get drunk. When they drink miyet with happy hearts.
It is however good when mouths shout for joy.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“It is, however, important to understand that giving a man his due may often mean giving him special treatment. I am aware of the fact that this has been a troublesome concept for many liberals, since it conflicts with their traditional ideal of equal opportunity and equal treatment of people according to their individual merits. But this is a day which demands new thinking and the reevaluation of old concepts. A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, in order to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“It is, however, not only undignified to idealize political victims; it is also very dangerous. One of our political actualities is that the victims of political torture and injustice are often no better than their tormentors. They are only waiting to change places with the latter. Of course, if one puts cruelty first this makes no difference. It does not matter whether the victim of torture is a decent man or a villain. No one deserves to be subjected to the appalling instruments of cruelty.”
Source: Ordinary Vices
“It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject.”
“It is, however, very important never to lose sight of the fact that the miniatures in illuminated books were not conceived as individual and independent paintings. They are book illustrations and are thus always intimately connected with a text.”
Source: The illuminated manuscript
“It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.”
“It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how the world anyway is. It is bad faith or 'bullshit', respond 'absolutists', to suppose - as the rhetoric of postmodernism implies - that we could seriously live and act with the thought that truth and value are simply our own projections. An attractive feature of 'ineffabilism', as I see it, is that it evades these accusations.”
“It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.”
“It is human choices that move events.”