I Quotes
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“It is just a very freaky experience when you go to the movie theater and you see it for the first time. In close-up you see those eyes. There are little touches here and there that I recognize as myself. The process is fun.”
“It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.”
“It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.”
“It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.”
Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time
“It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.”
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.”
“It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.”
“It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.”
“It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.”
“It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.”
Source: The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928
“It is just as important that we enter into a dialogue with China.”
“It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.”
Source: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
“It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.”
Source: The World As I See It
“It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.”
“It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.”
Source: Trusting God
“It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.”
“It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.”
Source: Practical Agitation
“It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.”
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”
“It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.”
“It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.”
“It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.”
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“It is just as painful to me when I do poorly. If the fault is all mine, that's what's painful. If it's a situation where no one could have succeeded, I don't feel as bad.”
“It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.”
Source: In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian
“It is just awesome, there’s no other way to describe it. To be the first to win in a Gen-6 car … I’m just very proud of the moment.”
“It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.”
“It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.”
“It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.”
“It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.”
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
“It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that happens, including my talking to you. It is not me who talks, the words appear in my mind and then I hear them said.”
“It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.”
“It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.”
“It is just simple to forgive anyone, while it is not simple to forget the suffering and pain of life caused by anyone”
“It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.”
“It is just so satisfying to create work that is beyond the framework of language. I think for me that when I make art, I allow myself the opportunity to think with my hands as well. The thing about writing is that you're constantly grappling with every word, because it is removed from the consideration of words in many ways, it can just allow you to move through the art. I discover things in the act of making.”
“It is just staggering to realize how much we don’t know. We don’t know how the first life started on Earth. We do not know for sure how the universe started. We do not know how time started. Even without answers to such most basic questions and knowing well how little we know of what we don’t know, we have still chosen to award Nobel prizes to people.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.”
“It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.”
“It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena - they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!”
Source: A Briefer History of Time
“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.”
Source: An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success
“It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.”
Source: An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success
“It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.”
Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21