I Quotes
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“It is in imposing my expectations on others that I birth my greatest frustrations.”
“It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“It is in joyful moments that we most easily connect with our inner guidance about what is best for us and our lives.”
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
“It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.”
Source: The Scientific Writings of James Smithson
“It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.”
“It is in learning to live in our circumstances that we learn how to live above them.”
“It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.”
Source: Realmah
“It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.”
“It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.”
“It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.”
Source: The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ
“It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.”
Source: America
“It is in man’s nature to be drawn by the crowd, if only to see what everybody else is up to. Even when that crowd was composed entirely of albino snow monkeys…”
Source: Pym
“It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.”
Source: Emile: Or, On Education
“It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.”
“It is in many people's best interest for you not to find
yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the
whole world's, to proceed.”
“It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.”
Source: The End of Eternity
“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.”
“It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.”
Source: Conversations with John Updike
“It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac
“It is in misfortune that you realize your true nature.”
“It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way
“It is in moments of shadow that illumination happens.”
“It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.”
“It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.”
“It is in my nature to go away far from you, wandering around and making sense of life. But I hope you know that I do care for you.”
“It is in my soul to spread love and laughter.”
“It is in nature, among the things which God has created, designed and brought forth Himself, that we are in the most natural atmosphere to be inspired. Creative ideas are apt to flow in the midst of the creativity expressed in God's creation, as one is temporarily separated from the confusion of conflicting voices which would separate us from the simple basic realities of what 'is'- and this is especially true today, when so much of what man builds, paints and writes, not only has no place for God but has no place for nature or man either.”
Source: The Hidden Art of Homemaking
“It is in no way remarkable, and in no way a vindication of textual evolutionism, that taking power from the people and placing it instead with a judicial aristocracy can produce some creditable results that democracy might not achieve. The same can be said of monarchy and totalitarianism. But once a nation has decided that democracy, with all its warts, is the best system of government, the crucial question becomes which theory of textual interpretation is compatible with democracy. Originalism unquestionably is. Nonoriginalism, by contrast, imposes on society statutory prescriptions that were never democratically adopted.”
Source: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
“It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.”
“It is in opposing the world’s lies that we impose truth in our hearts.”
“It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.”
“It is in order to obtain for all of us joys that are now reserved to a few; in order to give leisure and the possibility of developing everyone’s intellectual capacities, that the social revolution must guarantee daily bread to all. After bread has been secured, leisure is the supreme aim.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
“It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.”
“It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.”
“It is in our best interest to be incredibly focused on what we both enjoy and derive personal growth from, and pursue such activities with all our might.”
“It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.”
“It is in our deepest nature to be on a journey in search of the truth. And we betray that nature when we choose to crawl off to some dark corner of our lives and sit hunched over some self-serving agenda tediously attempting to create a ‘truth’ that will justify that agenda.”
“It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.”
“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”
Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.”
Source: The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances
“It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.”
“It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.”
Source: Has Man a Future?
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.”
Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
“It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.”
Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings
“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private