I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”
“It is no great hermeneutic feat to recognize that Rome crucified Jesus because of His claim to be king. The charge was posted over His head, after all. What is often overlooked, however, is that it is precisely because of their allegiance to that king—Jesus—that Rome persecuted His followers.
That the God of the Jews should father a son with magical powers was no more offensive to the Romans than the idea that Zeus should father Hercules. But what was intolerable was the fact that Jesus’ followers did not stop with recognizing Him as divine; they had the audacity to claim He was their actual sovereign.
In short, while the Jews preserved their religion by shouting, “We have no king but Caesar,” the early Christians sealed their fate by unabashedly declaring, “We have no king but Jesus!”
Source: The Problem With Christ: Why we don't understand Jesus, His enemies, or the early Church
“It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.”
“It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.”
“It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results. Or if, on the other hand, events are limited to the combinations of some finite number, then of necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
“It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we know well.”
“It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“It is no idle boast of the vermin Socialists that their system is Christianity, and no other is genuine. And look at them! To a man […] they are atheists and in favor of Free Love—whatever that may mean. I have talked with many Socialists, but never with one who understood his subject. Empty babblers they are, muddle-headed philanthropists. They read a shilling abridgement of John Stuart Mill, and settle all economic problems over a --sirloin of turnips-- in some filthy crank food dive. Ask them any question about detail, and the bubble is pricked.”
Source: The World's Tragedy
“It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.”
“It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.”
“It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“It is no life to be always under someone's control, subject to their will and whim.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”
“It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.”
“It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.”
“It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.”
“It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.”
Source: On Religion
“It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.”
Source: Vedanta & Christian faith
“It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.”
“It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.”
“It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.”
“It is no longer acceptable to run businesses that are damaging the health of over 7 billion people on planet Earth.”
“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”
“It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.”
Source: The Lonely Crowd
“It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.”
“It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.”
Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts
“It is no longer enough to just think or talk about what a spiritual connection is, or what it might be. We begin living it fully, one moment at a time." From "Living Beyond the Five Senses”
“It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.”
“It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?”
“It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them.”
“It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.”
“It is no longer fight or flight, it is now - fight, flight, or create. War and running away are left in the corner, creativity sprouts wings and flys with away with love.”
“It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '”
“It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.
Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.”
“It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.”
Source: My sister, life and other poems
“It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.”
Source: A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes
“It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.”
“It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor.”
Source: A People's History of the United States
“It is no longer the case, if it ever was, that capitalism can be construed as a peaceful, lawful, and non-coercive system.”
Source: The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
“It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?”
Source: The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land
“It is no madness to say
you will fall, you great cities.”
Source: Trilogy
“It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?”
Source: Wesley his own biographer, being illustrations of his character, labours, and achievements, from his own journals and letters [ed.] with an intr. by G.S. Rowe
“It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.”
Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.”
“It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.”
“It is no mistake when the wisest men have urged us to define our terms. Because true wisdom consists in depending on oneself and not involving any third party.”