I Quotes
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“It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.”
“It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.”
“It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.”
Source: De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, being sections of the Kitāb al-shifâ: The Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes
“It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.”
“It is in the numbness of our pain that God has created space to do what He could not when everything was noisy.”
“it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.”
Source: Home to India
“It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.”
“It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.”
Source: Life and Holiness
“It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“It is in the past, enough looking back,
it is gone, it is more over with
than the shocks of childhood.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“It is in the power of each and every person on earth to decide his placement and position in life”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.”
“It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.”
Source: Ferdydurke
“It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.”
“It is in the process of exploration that the Self experiences its own existence.”
Source: IO - HOW TO WIN AT THE GAME OF LIFE
“It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.”
“It is in the pursuits for the good of humanity and through purposeful deeds and endeavors that you own your power and soar to extraordinary levels of living.”
“It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.”
“It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.”
“It is in the realms of man’s vision to ennoble his woman by enabling her to taste the fruits of femininity rather than succumbing to her whims and fancies for his gratification with her allurements”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.”
“It is in the seemingly impossible that we find our true value.”
“It is in the seemingly impossible where we find our true value”
“It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.”
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -Irish proverb”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“It is in the solitude that legends are born.”
Source: Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
“It is in the spirit of Thanksgiving that more hearts find joyful living.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.”
“It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.”
Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“It is in the tough times that the object in which we trust is really put to the test.”
Source: Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life
“It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.”
“It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.”
“It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.”
Source: The Shadow Quintet
“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between the two. It seems that only when the Ascending and the Descending are united can both be saved. And if we - if you and I - do not contribute to this union, then it is very possible that not only will we destroy the only Earth we have, we will forfeit the only heaven we might otherwise embrace.”
Source: A Brief History of Everything
“It is in the utter exhaustion born of my battle with fear and trauma that all pretense and pretending is methodically stripped away. And although that process seems callously brutal, its intent is to leave me facing the rank ugliness of my weakness without the debilitating filter of denial or other such maladies. And it is in this place of excruciating rawness that I now have sufficient pain and ample frustration to compel me to change that which I’ve spent a lifetime cultivating.”
“It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.”
“It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.”
“It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.”
“It is in the Word that many are inspired to walk by faith and never faint.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.”
“It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.”
“It is in their eyes that their magic resides.”
“It is in their interests to have a stable, skilled labour force, a permanently well-adjusted complex, because the human complex (the collective worker) of an enterprise is also a machine which cannot, without considerable loss, be taken to pieces too often and renewed with single new parts.”
“It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.”
Source: My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories