I Quotes
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“It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.”
“It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet, unlike Alexander, whom she rivals as the theme of romance and legend, Cleopatra is known to us through overwhelmingly hostile sources. The reward of the ‘good’ woman in Rome was likely to be praise in stereotyped phrases; in Athens she won oblivion.”
Source: Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
“It is no surprise that weddings can be a little bittersweet for single people. We’re genuinely happy for our friends as they marry. But there can also be a sense of loss. It is the start of a new era for the couple. But the end of an era for our friendship. A single friend of mine in his late forties, recently said that the marriage of one of his closest friends felt like a bereavement. It feels as though you’ve been demoted. One writer, Carrie English, describes feelings of rejection that come when attending the wedding of friends. Two people announcing publicly that they love each other more than they love you. There is not denying that weddings change friendships forever. Priorities have been declared in public. She’ll be there for him in sickness and in health, till death do they part. She’ll be there for you on your birthday or when he has to work late. Being platonically dumped wouldn’t be so bad if people would acknowledge that you have the right to be platonically heartbroken. But it’s just not part of our vocabulary. However much our society might pay lip service to friendship, the fact remains that the only love it considers important, important enough to make a huge public celebration, is romantic love.”
Source: 7 Myths about Singleness
“It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.”
“It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.”
“It is no use bottling up this emotion. All too soon it will overwhelm you and you shall drown. You are as fickle as the tide, so let the sea water wash over you until you are ready to stand.”
Source: The Apprentice
“It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.”
“It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.”
Source: Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future
“It is no use dying, before one does.”
“It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.”
“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.”
“It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.”
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“It is no use seeking salvation in institutions, programs, and projects. We shall save ourselves only if more and more of us have the unfashionable courage to take counsel with our own souls and, in the midst of all this modern hustle and bustle, to bethink ourselves of the firm, enduring, and proved truths of life.”
Source: A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
“It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.”
“It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.”
“It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.”
Source: A Poetry Handbook
“It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
“It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.”
“It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.”
Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
“It is no use trying to sum people up.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”
“It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.”
“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.”
Source: The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
“It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Burns. Life of Heyne. German playwrights. Voltaire. Novalis. Signs of the times. On history. Appendix: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's review of Madame De Stael's 'Allemagne.' Schiller, Goethe and Madame De Stael
“It is no waste,' I said. 'One life may change the world. Where would you all be if someone had deemed saving my life to be a waste of time?' I pointed to Rhys. 'If he had deemed saving my life Under the Mountain a waste of time? Even if it's only twenty families, or ten... They are not a waste. Not to me- or to you.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
Source: What is the What
“It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
“It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.”
“It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.”
“It is no wonder lesbians love women.”
“It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.”
“It is no wonder that most who came to the goldfields in search of wealth returned home empty handed. Running a gambling house was the easiest way to mine for gold.”
Source: Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling
“It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.”
“It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity, among American Negroes, was championed by jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of racial identity as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls. Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from the music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down. And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For, in a particular struggle of the Negro in America, there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has
the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody
needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone towards all these.”
“It is no wonder women have a reputation for patience which is not shared by men. We spend so much of our time waiting. Waiting for a child to be born. Waiting for a man to come home, from the fields, from the sea, from battle. Waiting endlessly for news. That can be the worst, as fear bites deep at the vitals, and seizes the heart with chill fingers. The mind can make strange and horrible pictures, while you are waiting.”
Source: Son of the Shadows
“It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do.”
“It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.”
Source: David Copperfield
“It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another has not those things, which are not necessary for our maintenance; he who has them has not thereby obtained control over anything that could be an essential addition to his nature, but has only obtained something illusory or deceptive. ...This is the rule at all times and in all places; no notice should be taken of exceptional cases, as we have explained.”
“It is noble and meritorious to sound the alarm when robbers and other intruders are secretly breaking into the house and poisoning the food of its inhabitants.”
Source: Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within
“It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.”
“It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
[Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]”
“It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.”
Source: Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel
“It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations