I Quotes
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“It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.”
“It is much more difficult for women to succeed in science than for men, not because their intelligence is lower than that of men, but because, unlike men, they tend to spend their time and energy mainly on conversations and dreams. However, what makes them women is only those distinguishing features, without which they would resemble men, not women.”
“It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic argument in favor of equalization - and I think there are arguments on both sides - I would still come down in favour of some sort of a scheme on strict economic grounds.”
“It is much more difficult to inspire someone's trust than to arouse his or her lust.”
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”
Source: The Little Prince
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”
“It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair”
“It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.”
Source: He Follows Christ
“It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.”
Source: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…
“It is much more difficult to see how it will ever be possible to abandon a system of provision for the aged under which each generation, by paying for the needs of the preceding one, acquires a similar claim to support by the next. It would almost seem as if such a system, once introduced, would have to be continued in perpetuity or allowed to collapse entirely. The introduction of such a system therefore puts a strait jacket on evolution and places on society a steadily growing burden from which it will in all probability again and again attempt to extricate itself by inflation.”
Source: The Constitution of Liberty
“It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.”
“It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.”
Source: Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“It is much more enjoyable to love success than to hate failure.”
Source: The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
“It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.”
“It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.”
“It is much more important to be oneself than anything else.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century
“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.”
“It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.”
“It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.”
“It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.”
“It is much more rewarding to do more with less.”
“It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?”
“It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.”
“It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."”
“It is much quicker to fly from Johannesburg to Lagos than from Moscow to Vladivostok. I couldn't help thinking: can you imagine Jacob Zuma also ruling Nigeria, 4,600 kilometres to the north-west? The chaos and madness!”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.”
“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
Source: The Prince
“It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“It is much safer to obey than to rule.”
“It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.”
“It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.”
“It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.”
Source: The educational essays
“It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.”
Source: Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes
“It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.”
Source: Correspondence
“It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.”
“It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.”
“It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.”
Source: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
“It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.”
Source: Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel
“It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.”
“It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.”
“It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.”
Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons
“It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities. I have a lot of faith in the entrepreneurial nature of our 1.25 billion people. There is a lot of capability. And I have a clear road-map to channel it.”
“It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.”
“It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.”
“It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.”
“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.”
Source: Selected letters of William Faulkner
“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.”
Source: Selected letters of William Faulkner
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”