I Quotes
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“It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.”
“It is misleading to discuss recent changes in family life without emphasizing the fact that for generations some Americans have had to raise children under particularly appalling pressures. Although much of what is worrying American parents is shared by them all, the most grievous problems are those that especially afflict a large minority--the poor, the nonwhite and, in various ways, the parents of handicapped children.”
Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.”
“It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.”
“It is money makes the mare to trot.”
“It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.”
“It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.”
“It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.”
Source: The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems
“It is morally acceptable in life for one to make mistakes; it only enables you to go back to your drawing board and review your steps”.”
“It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.”
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
“It is morally as bad not to care whether anything is true or not.”
“It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take sides. It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing.
He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain.
The victim demands action, engagement and remembering...
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator's first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization. After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened, the victim lies, the victim exaggerates, the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on.
The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail.”
Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.”
“It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.”
“It is morals that help us make laws, but morals do not help us apply them.”
Source: A Little Life
“It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about - city versus country. For example, someone could have an empty place mentality yet be living in a condo in Boca Raton.”
“It is more about you knowing your value than others knowing.”
“It is more acceptable to talk about the evils of cults than it is to talk about the evils of culture”
“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”
“It is more beautiful to be kind than right.”
“It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.”
“It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.”
“It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.”
Source: Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses
“It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.”
“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.”
“It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.”
“It is more damaging to be insincere to ourselves than we do to others.”
“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“It is more desirable to show the truth to someone than to just show good.”
Source: Productivity Promoter
“It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.”
“It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.”
Source: The Lone Drow: The Hunter's Blades Trilogy
“It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.”
“It is more difficult for you to pretend having feelings when you don’t,
than it is to me to pretend I don’t have any when I do.
That is why I’d rather sleep.
Not having to think.
Just to feel.
In the sea of illusions,
every touch of yours
belongs to me.”
Source: Moments of Eros: Poetry as the Language of Desire
“It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.”
“It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.”
“It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.”
“It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.”
“It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.”
“It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.”
Source: The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes
“It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.”
“It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.”
“It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.”
“It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's contributions have been less important than men's contributions because women are usually less public people.”
“It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.”
Source: Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life
“It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...