I Quotes
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“It is nothing short of tragedy if virtues are nowhere to be found except on walls.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“It is nothing special for the priest to turn into a scientist. But it will make headlines to see a scientist turn into a priest.”
“It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.”
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.”
“It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?”
“It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.”
“It is noticed within the being the speed of the sense of certainty of the decision making. Clarity of execution; and the goodness of the heart for the cause.”
“It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.”
“It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)
“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be those in Texas now who believe they can insulate their state—a state that had its own courageous revolution—from the news of evolution and from the writing in 1786 of a Constitution that refuses to mention religion except when demarcating and limiting its role in the public square. But we promise them today that they will join their fore-runners in the flat-earth community, and in the mad clerical clique of those who believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yes, they will be in schoolbooks—as a joke on the epic scale of William Jennings Bryan. We shall be fair, and take care to ensure that their tale is told.”
“It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.”
“It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.”
“It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.”
“It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.”
“It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)
“It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.”
“It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.”
“It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.”
Source: Letters to his wife
“It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.”
“It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing.”
“It is now certain that the public does know. It is not so certain that the public does care.”
Source: Autobiography
“It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
“It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.”
“It is now clear that the kōan about Mahakasyapa's receiving the flower after Sakyamuni's wordless sermon, as well as slogans like "special transmission outside the teaching" and "no reliance on words and letters"—originally separate items that came to be linked in a famous Zen motto attributed to Bodhidharma—were created in the Sung dynasty. First making their appearance in eleventh-century transmissions of the lamp texts, including the Chingte chuan-teng lu (1004) and the T'ien-sheng kuang-teng lu (1036), these rhetorical devices were designed to support the autonomous identity of Zen in an era of competition with neo-Confucianism and are not to be regarded as accurate expressions of the period they are said to represent. A close examination of sources reveals that Tang masters with a reputation for irreverence and blasphemy were often quite conservative in their approach to doctrine by citing (rather than rejecting) Mahayana sutras in support of teachings that were not so distinct from, and were actually very much in accord with, contemporary Buddhist schools.”
Source: Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?
“It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.”
Source: The new peoplemaking
“It is now clear to me that there was no difference between our behavior and that of people in a madhouse; but at the time I only dimly suspected this and, like all madmen, I thought everyone was mad except myself.”
Source: A Confession and Other Religious Writings
“It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.”
“It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.”
“It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.”
“It is now decision time. Once the decision has been made, there is no turning back. It is this next step forward that will turn our dream into reality.”
Source: Above All Else
“It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”
“It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny”
Source: Life: an introduction to biology
“It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.”
“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”
Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.”
Source: Language, Truth and Logic
“It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.”
“It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off.”
“It is now late August 2005. He has interrupted work on his ninth book to go to Sweden with his beautiful fiancee, Kimberly, and right now he is standing with his Swedish translator, getting ready to deliver a rousing bilingual speech to a crowd of hundreds at a grandstand next to the Baltic Sea. How far will this ride take him? If he had just checked off his bird list and gone home, the ride would have ended long ago. That’s the main thing I’ve learned from the young man I once was and from his still-continuing adventures. Yes, it’s good to go on a quest, but it’s better to go with an open mind. The most significant we find may not be the thing we were seeking. That is what redeems the crazy ambivalence of birding, As trivial as our listing pursuit may be, it gets us out there in the real world, paying attention, hopeful and awake. Any day could be a special day, and probably will be, if we just go out to look.”
Source: Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.”
“It is now nearly a quarter of a century since I was startled into a review of my own work on the surgery of the arteries, and led to the humiliating recognition of the fact that the conclusions obtained from a series of experiments on animals could not be applied to man, and that our efforts to adapt them were leading us into serious surgical blunders. An extended investigation into which I was further attracted by the rising discussion of this question forced upon me the opinion that Syme and Fergusson were right when they stoutly asserted that surgery had in no way been advanced by experiments on animals. I knew these two men intimately. . . . They were the two greatest surgeons I have ever known. . . . I decide altogether against vivisection, because it is inherently objectionable from my religious point of view, because it is clumsy and inexact, and because it has very frequently, if indeed it has not always, been found altogether misleading.— Prof. LAWSON TAIT (1896)”
Source: The Antivivisection Question
“It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.”
“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.”
Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
“It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.”
Source: Commonplace Book
“It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.”
Source: A Month in the Country
“It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”