I Quotes
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“It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.”
“It is, moreover, useless to cast furtive glances at the way someone else is developing, because each of us has a unique task of self-realization. Although many human problems are similar, they are never identical. All pine trees are very much alike (otherwise we should not recognize them as pines), yet none is exactly the same as another. Because of these factors of sameness and difference, it is difficult to summarize the infinite variations of the process of self individuation. The fact is that each person has to do something different, something that is uniquely his own.”
“It is morning, John Mayer Concert Tee. I have a series of problems that cannot be solved.”
Source: AM/PM
“It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.”
Source: Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts
“It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar
“It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability. Nobody is afraid that the money they place in the US is at risk of expropriation or of in some other way being taken away. For this safety, the wealth holders of the world are willing to accept a lower rate of return.”
“It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!”
“It is most certainly not the function of the Holy See to introduce Church reforms. The first duty of the Pope is to act as primary bishop, to watch over the traditions of the Church—her dogmatic, moral and liturgical traditions.”17”
Source: The Great Façade: The Regime of Novelty in the Catholic Church from Vatican II to the Francis Revolu
“It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.”
“It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.”
“It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.”
“It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.”
Source: They Call Me Coach
“It is most fitting to give praise to the Ancient of Days when things are not as we would prefer," Noblin said. "Who alone but the Most High sees the beginning from the end? Who alone can create beauty from our ashes? We celebrate His goodness in the midst of our pain, knowing that these troubled times have been sifted through His mighty hands before they ever found their way into our lives. His kindness has given us prophecies of old, words of truth to hang onto when our enemies seek to oppose us. The battles may be arduous, but we know Who wins the war!”
Source: The Genesis Tree
“It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.”
“It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative prayer in the Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. May all the faithful find in the Eucharist their source of strength and courage to imitate our Lady, totally open to his will in their daily lives. It is my hope that this devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist will spread to more and more parishes and dioceses across our nation.”
“It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.”
“It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.”
“It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.”
Source: Management of Inspection and Quality Control
“It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.”
“It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.”
“It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.”
“It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.”
Source: Revelations of divine love
“It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.”
“It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.”
“It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.”
“It is most oppressive to be an aunt.”
Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973
“It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.”
“It is most remarkable that, while confessing their entire ignorance of the true Nature of even terrestrial matter--primordial substance being regarded more as a dream than as a sober reality--the physicists should set themselves up as judges, nevertheless, of that matter, and claim to know what it is able and is not able to do, in various combinations.”
Source: The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4
“It is most significant i think, that the word discrimination which for ages has been the very name of excellence, is now a bad thing, discrimination which used to be the supreme virtue, has now become the supreme crime, one should not discriminate, ofcourse i personaly think with all the past centuries of western culture that on should always discriminate.”
“It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.”
“It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.”
“It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.”
“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.”
“it is most useful to think about these questions not in terms of the individual rights of transsexuals, but in terms of how these issues link with those of other marginalized populations, or with the functioning of the state in general.”
Source: Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, And Imperialism
“It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?”
“It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures”
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
“It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.”
“It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.”
Source: Notes on the Pentateuch - Volume I: Genesis
“It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.”
“It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.”
Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.”
“It is much better to live in poverty and graduate to the middle class, than it is to live as a king and be demoted to the middle class.”
“It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.”
“It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.”
Source: Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected
“It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.”
Source: The writings of George Washington
“It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.”