I Quotes
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“It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.”
“It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.”
Source: Sex, Death, and Money
“It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.”
“It is ironic that as we are becoming a globally connected population of over 7 billion people, that we are rapidly approaching the disconnection phase that environmental collapse will bring.”
“It is ironic that astronomy is the study of the heavens, but astronomers willfully fail to understand the Hawaiians beliefs regarding their heavens.”
“It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative. Or as Paul the Apostle wrote, 'I have learned the secret to contentment in any and every circumstance.' He was right. Indeed the Lord is our strength, especially under the commandment to love one another. Otherwise we are nothing and easily thrown about by both our own and other people's mind control in a painful, mental, physical desperation to run from every thought, every thing, and every one not seeming so positive or immediately beneficial to us.”
Source: Killosophy
“It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed[..].”
Source: A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down
“It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.”
“It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.”
“It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?”
“It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.”
“It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.”
“It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.”
“It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.”
“It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.”
Source: The Time Saving Agency
“It is ironic that the only thing separating ‘friend’ from ‘fiend’ – is often just a single letter.”
Source: Pearls Before Swine
“It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.”
“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.”
“It is ironic that the very ties that bind a husband and wife in theory- home and family- often serve to separate them in fact.”
Source: A Woman of Independent Means
“It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.”
“It is ironic that when you sincerely believe you can help someone to not make the same mistake you have made, the answer is ‘stay out of it, I know what I am doing”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.”
Source: Silent Spring
“It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse.”
Source: Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea
“It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.”
“It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much better to sell them at cost and then to reward the innovator in some other way. This is not always possible, because in some cases the value of an innovation is in the eye of the beholder; it's very difficult to value how much a new Madonna song is worth, for example. But in the case of medicines, green technologies and seeds in agriculture, such an alternative reward mechanism is fairly straightforward.”
“It is irrepressibly familiar, the send that the world is suddenly growing smaller and the time growing shorter. I am heavy with the thought of each person I know who needed these months to wander or rest, find their match or start all over, who need the chance to say every hello and goodbye to each delicious moment, unrestricted.”
“It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.”
“It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our senior population - especially the oldest and sickest.”
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
“It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.”
“It is Israel that must recognize Palestine's rights. We cannot believe in empty statements, twiddle our thumbs and watch our children getting killed. Israel must end occupation and aggression, and our actions won't take much longer after that.”
“It is!
“It is evolution,” the garden cried,
“It is revolution,” the nature sighed,
“It is diabolically dark,” the night feared,
“It is unbearably hot,” the Sun cried, but no one cared,
“It is a leafless and lifeless spring,” the seasons implored,
“It is polluting me,” the river sobbed, but it was ignored,
“It is no longer blue, my hue,” the sky admitted,
“It is I who supports you and it is me who is being resented,”
“It is no longer cold,” screamed the north pole,
“It is from me that you all my bounties stole,”
“It is no more like the sea it used to be,
It is no more the water where we felt at home,” said the fish swimming in the dying sea,
“It is not what it had to be,
It is not where humanity had to be,
It is so unfortunately, and this is how it is now,
It is the new reality: the dying sea, the dark sky, the burning sun, and in it all of us now,
It is the question for all of us though, where shall we go without them?
It is not about either us or either them,
It is more about what is right and what is true,
And it is a fact, the sky is dark and diabolically blue!”
Said I, to whoever was listening,
Alas, they were busy pleasing the moments of life, filled with callous hastening!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“It is its absence which defines the importance of a thing.”
Source: Mrs Fox
“It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.”
Source: Every Day
“It is its sanctification of the base human instincts that makes Islam the menace of all mankind”
“It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.”
“It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.”
“It is Jean-Paul Lepin. Chef Lepin."
I could not stifle a grin. I thought he had said lapin, which is the French word for rabbit. "For a rabbit, you seem quite fearless."
This made the other chefs chuckle again, and I saw by the nod of a head that I had scored a point.”
Source: Above the Bay of Angels
“It is Jesus that The Proverbs 31 Lady seeks when she dreams of happiness; He is waiting for her when nothing else she finds satisfies her; He is the beauty to which she is so attracted to; it is He who provoked her with that thirst for fullness that will not let her settle for compromise; it is He who urges her to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in her heart her most genuine choices, the choices that others try to suppress.
Do you desire to be that Lady of God? God desires a relationship with you. He's made this relationship possible by sending His Son. That inner void is filled through a relationship with the Lord. The place to start to fulfill the longing in your heart is to trust in the Lord for His salvation and allow the Holy Spirit to work within you to satisfy your thirst. As we go together to the well that never runs dry, I know the savior of our soul will meet us there. We will drink from the water of life He gives, the water that quenches our thirsty souls.”
Source: The Proverbs 31 Lady: Unveiling Her Timetested Success Secrets Before Saying I Do
“It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”
“It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.”
“It is June 1527; well barbered and curled, tall and still trim from certain angles, and wearing white silk, the king makes his way to his wife's apartments. He moves in a perfumed cloud made of the essence of roses: as if he owns all the roses, owns all the summer nights.”
Source: Wolf Hall: A Novel
“It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin.”
Source: Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.”
“It is just a body but it was yours, and beloved.”
Source: Wild Dark Shore
“it is, just a door.
if you never knock,
it may, never open.”
Source: Getting Lost
“It is just a simple question - ‘And then what?’ But its consequence? Manifold!”
Source: The World's Most Frustrated Man
“It is just, a simple to forgive anyone, while, it is not, the simple to forget the suffering and pain of life caused by anyone.”
“It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.”