I Quotes
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“It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.”
“It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool’s errand.”
“It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.”
“It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!”
“It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian
“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”
“It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.”
“It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.”
Source: Atlantic Essays
“It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.”
“It is no disgrace to rest a bit.”
“It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.”
“It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue”
Source: Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814
“It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.”
“It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous. Make sure they are always very 'spiritual', that he is always concerned with the state of her soul and never with her rheumatism.”
“It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.”
“It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.”
“It is no easy task to be good.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.”
“It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching. We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction.”
“It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.”
Source: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
“It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.”
“It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.”
Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded
“It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn the housing bubble that gave us the financial crisis of 2008, the lingering effects of which have forced many OWS protesters to try to launch their careers in by far the most inhospitable labor market we've seen since the Great Depression. Even those recent graduates who manage to find jobs will suffer a lifelong penalty in reduced wages.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“It is no exaggeration to say that the first real problem I faced in my life was that of beauty.”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.”
“It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.”
“It is no frill to say that until we get it instilled in us that a blunder could kill a lunatic and thus spill innocent blood, we will continue to thrill and chill as they drill and grill in pain.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.”
“It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.”
“It is no good asking for a simple religion. After all, real things are not simple. They look simple, but they are not. The table I am sitting at looks simple: but ask a scientist to tell you what it is really made of—all about the atoms and how the light waves rebound from them and hit my eye and what they do to the optic nerve and what it does to my brain—and, of course, you find that what we call ‘seeing a table’ lands you in mysteries and complications which you can hardly get to the end of.”
“It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”
“It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.”
“It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.”
“It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.”
“It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.”
Source: Elders and Betters
“It is no good wishing for what was not to be.”
Source: Witch Child
“It is no good worrying about things that are out of your hands”
“It is no great accomplishment to take care of yourself—I’ve known children of ten or twelve who can do that. To become a true adult, you must become more than independent; you must become dependable.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.”