I Quotes
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“It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.”
“It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones, but I think it is already clear that John Rawls is the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century.”
“It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.”
“It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.”
“It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.”
“It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.”
“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.”
“It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.”
“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.”
“It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.”
Source: He that will not when he may
“It is often easier to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own.”
“It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.”
“It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role”
Source: the female eunuch
“It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.”
“It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”
Source: The Maxims of Marcel Proust
“It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.”
“It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.”
“It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.”
Source: The Temple of Nature
“It is often in our lowest moments that we find hope.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”
“It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.”
“It is often in the river of my own tears that my soul is cleansed”
Source: The Lovely Knowing
“It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.”
“It is, often, in the utter despair of humanness that we become willing to consider deeply spiritual answers. Although the door and the guide will be different for people, once the door is open, we are all in the same territory. Spiritual truth irretrievably alters our way of seeing reality and our ability to heal both ourselves and other people. Most spiritual awakening is due to a total disappointment in the human condition to provide any sense of substantial happiness. It is a blessing in disguise. Our greatest need is for the love and assurance that spiritual understanding brings. If it were not for the common experience of human lovelessness and limitation then we would not be driven to seek a higher love.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.”
Source: Down Among the Dead Men
“It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.”
“It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.”
Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life
“It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.”
“It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.”
“It is often little things that are hardest to stand.”
Source: The last battle
“It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
“It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.”
“It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.”
“It is often much harder to get rid of books than it is to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.”
“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.”
Source: The House of Paper
“It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.”
“It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.”
“It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.”
“It is often our best friends who throw us down.”
“It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others”
“It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.”
Source: Unreached
“It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.”
Source: THE FLOATING OPERA
“It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.”
“It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.”
“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka
“It is often said, as an excuse for the slaughter of animals, that it is better for them to live and to be butchered than not to live at all. … In fact, if we once admit that it is an advantage to an animal to be brought into the world, there is hardly any treatment that cannot be justified by the supposed terms of such a contract. Also, the argument must apply to mankind. It has, in fact, been the plea of the slave-breeder; and it is logically just as good an excuse for slave-holding as for flesh-eating. It would justify parents in almost any treatment of their children, who owe them, for the great boon of life, a debt of gratitude which no subsequent services can repay. We could hardly deny the same merit to cannibals, if they were to breed their human victims for the table, as the early Peruvians are said to have done.”
Source: The Humanities of Diet, Some Reasonings and Rhymings
“It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.”
“It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.”
“It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses? Because, you will say, the Bible says so. The Koran says, that God spake unto Mahomet, do you believe that too? No. Why not? Because, you will say, you do not believe it; and so because you do, and because you don't is all the reason you can give for believing or disbelieving except that you will say that Mahomet was an impostor. And how do you know Moses was not an impostor?”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar