I Quotes
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“It is manifestly in the interest of the United States to deal with the very real threat that climate change poses. And that's why President Obama has worked so hard to reduce our own emissions and to lead internationally in forging the Paris climate agreement.”
“It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.”
Source: In my own words
“It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.”
“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.”
“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.
[Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen
Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]”
“It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.”
Source: Leviathan
“It is many years ago and at times I know nothing about her anymore who was once all things to me but all things pass. (The Eleventh Psalm)”
Source: Love Poems
“It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.”
“It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle
seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.”
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.”
“It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.”
Source: The Women
“It is May of 2020, and I do not have a brain well suited for this.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“It is maybe not the best choice to have a favorite anything.”
“It is me. He knows it. The dollymop knows it. I know it. I am the problem. Soon I will be discovered and destroyed. I am in constant danger and yet, I am the danger...”
Source: Blood Sipper
“It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.”
Source: The Collector
“It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.”
“It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!”
“It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.”
“It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.”
“It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.”
“It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.”
Source: Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell
“It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.”
“It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.”
Source: The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner
“It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.”
“It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.”
“It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.”
Source: Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50
“It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.”
Source: Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide
“It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.”
“It is mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest loveliest gifts of his providence.”
Source: C.H. Spurgeon's Autobiography: 1854-1860
“It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.”
Source: The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings
“It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.”
“IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.”
“It is mere human for man to sin. But it is divine to be saved.”
“It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.”
Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:
“It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say "that is red" instead of "that reddens," either in the sense of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930
“It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“It is merely the egoism of men, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love. Can you deny that our Christina world is rotting?”
Source: Venus in Furs
“It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.”
“It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.”
Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“it is midnight
no magical bewitching
hour for me”
Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“It is midnight. Rain is beating against the window." It was not midnight. It was not raining.”
“It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on his way to becoming a peasant and a fully free man-a man free economically as well as politically. The whole spirit of the Church was for small property, and that spirit was slowly, instinctively, working for the establishment of small property throughout Christendom.”
Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.”
“It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.”
Source: The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition
“It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“It is misfortune and distress that tries love. It is thus that the touchstone is applied to see if it be current gold indeed, or some base metal, which by a superficial glitter imitates it.”
Source: Varney the Vampire Or, the Feast of Blood a romance
“It is misfortune of small precise men to hanker after large and flamboyant women.”
Source: The Labours of Hercules