I Quotes
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“It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“It is legal because I wish it.”
“It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.”
“It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves.”
“It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.”
Source: Education, individual, and society: selected addresses
“It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.”
“It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].”
Source: Bossypants
“It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.”
“It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.”
“It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.”
“It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.”
“It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.”
Source: Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
“It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.”
“It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.”
Source: The Existence and Attributes of God
“It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.”
Source: House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence
“It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.”
Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“It is less that you are an adversary and more that you are someone with an opinion that (although frightening to me) might in some way enrich my own. And if I raise myself to being a partner with you on this mutual journey of ours, and if I refuse to bow to the posture of being a frightened adversary as you intersect my journey with a journey different than my own, we can profoundly change what we would have otherwise both died fighting over.”
“It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.”
Source: The Living Novel
“It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it.
[Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]”
“It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.”
“It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?”
“It is life and death,
Life like you are left
With a phantom limb:
To lose your wife
Or your best friend
- With the right leg gone -
Attempting to feel,
A tempting to mend
- Or an arm stretched strong -
Our tendencies to steal,
Thence heal the way it ends;
Prolonging as we reach back again,
But then again,
So far? See, to reject what is real,
My love, has been
Our greatest sin”
“It is Life laughing at Evil—one of my favorite jokes—that something broken, then mended, is somehow made more whole than it was to begin with. In such things, good is doubled by wonder.”
Source: Dear to Saturn
“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
Love becomes greater and nobler and mightier in calamity.
We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a women decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root. There is no god worth worrying about.
Let time pass and we will see what it brings.
Humanity, like the armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
Those of us who make the rules have the greatest obligation to abide by them.
I don't believe in God but I am afraid of him.
It's better to arrive in time than to be invited.
Unfaithful but not disloyal.
Love, no matter what else it might be, is a natural talent.
Nobody teaches life anything.
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
There is no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid and dangerous, than a poet.
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
One comes into the world with a predetermined allotment of lays and whoever doesn't use them for whatever reason, one's own and someone else's, willingly or unwillingly, looses them forever.”
“It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.”
“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born. He who does not sense and understand its most secret forces, who does not feel in himself something cognate that drives him forward on a path neither hedged nor defined by concepts, who believes in the surface, public opinion, large phrases and ideals of the day — he is not of the stature for its events. He is in their power, not they in his. Look not back to the past for measuring-rods! Still less sideways for some system or other! There are times, like our own present and the Gracchan age, in which there are two most deadly kinds of idealism, the reactionary and the democratic. The one believes in the reversibility of history, the other in a teleology of history. But it makes no difference to the inevitable failure with which both burden a nation over whose destiny they have power, whether it is to a memory or to a concept that they sacrifice it. The genuine statesman is incarnate history, its directedness expressed as individual will and its organic logic as character.”
Source: The decline of the West
“It is Life’s nature to, at some point, hang you at the edge of a precipice. You will find the darkness suffocating and the pain unbearable. What do you do, when you don’t know what to do? Well, in such times, think deeply about two aspects that you don’t normally consider: 1. Your Life is a gift that has been given to you without your even asking for it. 2. There are many who don’t have what you always take for granted. So, don’t complain. Be grateful. And watch how gratitude soaks your Life in abundance!”
“It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.”
“It is life that hurts you not death.”
“It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”
Source: The Notebook
“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“It is light's beauty that reveals our ugly shadows.”
“It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.”
“It is like a bomb, the lies destroy everything!”
“It is like a dream. A dream I am ready to make come true. But how do I get this grumpy loner to open up to me?”
Source: Promised To The Mountain Man
“It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.”
Source: Recollections and Thoughts of a Pioneer: Presented at the Wings Club on November 16, 1964, New York City
“It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is probably what has kept me going. I had none of the self-doubts which have bothered me in the past. I was totally positive.”
“It is like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of truth he does just as he pleases.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.”
Source: Rome and a Villa
“It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.”
Source: Across the Universe
“It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.”
“It is like a woman indeed
To take rapture before the fact is shown for true.
They believe too easily, are too quick to shift
From ground to ground; and swift indeed
The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.”
Source: Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore
“It is like an alternate universe, I don't understand how I am different from other versions of myself .”
“Not necessarily an alternate universe; it is more like contemporary parallelism. You are the same person living within the same cosmos, but unlike alternate universes, how there are infinite variations of Hatsumi, there are two of you, presently existing behind a mirror of time going about in separate environments.”
“What happens if I see—myself?”
“Couldn't tell you, I’ve never met myself, I think another period of enmity would make the most sense if it were to happen since you two are anomalies to the memoir of life, death, and dreams...”
“It is like another five years of my life have passed, and it is as if I blacked out, because I cannot remember them, and I do not know why, yet maybe I do? I was there but my mind was elsewhere. I think about the past and relieve it while reliving it instead of being the mom, which I need and needed to be. I do not know where I was, where I have been, I was lost in my own body! Spinning- spinning- spinning around to the point of insanity, or so it seemed. Maybe my depression got the best of me? Maybe I was healing myself from the past; maybe, I do not know anything, and yet know it all.
In those five years she became a teenager, when did that happen? She has hips and a chest. Plus, she wears more make-up than I do? When…! How…! What? Where have I been? Yeah, Jaylynn is a young lady, and I can see she is having the same dreadful existence in her life as I did when I was a young woman. Yes, I do see that, sad to say.
It is interesting to watch children grow up in front of your eyes, I never knew how difficult, letting go could be. I remember when Jaylynn started to read. I remember when she went through the change to become a woman and we had that talk, little did I know she did not need it.”
Source: Nevaeh The Cursed
“It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.”
Source: Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest
“It is like confessing to a murder.”
“It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.”