I Quotes
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“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
Source: East of Eden
“It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'”
“It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.”
Source: Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
“It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.”
“It is one of the worse things you can say about somebody, they are racist.”
“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.”
“It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster
“It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is, then he is freed to move from there and to begin to think about how he wants to change, how we wants to grow, how he can become different, how he might become more of what he is capable of being.”
“It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached.
Kristie Leigh Maguire”
Source: Forever Until We Meet
“It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.”
“It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or something. And I don't know if that's always the best thing. But it's certainly - you understand why people do it.”
“It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.”
“It is one soul which animates all men.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so.”
Source: The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey
“It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the warmth, to hear his beating heart within his chest, to instantly know the protective grip of his arms. It's one thing to hear he loves you; it's another thing to feel his love. This is the glorious work of the Spirit.”
Source: Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.”
“It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“It is one thing for modern educated people to feel they must believe these old stories as factual when science proves otherwise. It is quite another for ancient people living before the dawn of scientific technology to venture clever but inevitably mistaken explanations. My guess is that many secular folks in our day take a dim view of biblical tales of a six-day creation, a universal flood, etc., blaming these stories for the oppressive use of them by religious leaders who ought to know better. But that’s not fair. Who, after all, scorns and ridicules the Greek or the Norse myths? No one, because no one catechizes us to believe these literally. They haven’t left a bad taste in our mouths. Nor should the myths of Genesis.
If we could somehow visit the past and explain to the authors of Genesis the true origins of the earth and its life-forms, of languages, and of ethnicities, I suspect they would rejoice to learn the truth of the matter.”
Source: Holy Fable: The Old Testament Undistorted by Faith
“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.”
Source: The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)
“It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use of such opportunities; it is something else for the university to become engaged as an institution, beyond a fairly narrow range where true consensus exists, and even that raises questions.”
“It is one thing for the living water to descend from Christ into the heart, and another thing how-when it has descended-it moves the heart to worship. All power of worship in the soul, is the result of the waters flowing into it, and their flowing back again to God.”
“It is one thing, I was discovering, to think, "Maybe I won't have kids," and quite another to be told, "Maybe you can't." This is how impatience turns to desperation.”
Source: Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother
“It is one thing, they note, to criticize government policy and the moral state of the nation, quite another to single out a specific group of people and brand them as literally less than human. to many, it betokens an attitude uncomfortably reminiscent of that held in Nazi Germany against the Jews.”
“It is one thing, they note, to criticize government policy and the motal state of the nation, quite another to single out a specific group of people and brand them as literally less than human. to many, it betokens an attitude uncomfortably reminiscent of that held in Nazi Germany against the Jews”
Source: X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
“It is one thing to ask questions; what do you do with the answers?”
Source: Slated
“It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.”
Source: The Middle Place
“It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.”
“It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.”
Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.”
“It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.”
Source: The Root, the Rod and the Flower
“It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.”
Source: The Infernals
“It is one thing to be challenged and another thing to be changed, never settle for less, go for the winner.”
“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“It is one thing to be delivered from bad thoughts, and another to be freed from the passions. Often people are delivered from thoughts, when they do not have before their eyes those things which produce passion. But the passions for them remain hidden in the soul, and when the things appear again the passions are revealed. Therefore it is necessary to guard the mind when these things appear, and to know toward which things you have a passion.”
“It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.”
“It is one thing to be free; to be ignorant and free is to be imprisoned.”
“It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.”
“It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“It is one thing to be satisfied in one’s judgment and understanding, so as to be able to say, ‘This is the hand of God, and is what is suitable to my condition or best for me. Although I do not see the reason for the thing, yet I am satisfied in my judgment about it.’ Then it is in the thoughts of a man or woman.
As my judgment is satisfied, so my thoughts are kept in order. And then it comes to the will. My will yields and submits to it; my affections are likewise kept in order, so that it goes through the whole soul.”
Source: The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and, whatever may be the forms of the Constitution, unites all power in the same hands.”
Source: The Federalist on the New Constitution
“It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick.”
Source: Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia: Sexual Evocation
“It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.”
“It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.”
“It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it”
Source: Aesop's fables
“It is one thing to crawl into bed after a normal day, but it is another thing to crawl into bed after an adventure - that's the best kind of sleep, the still-excited, still-buzzing kind of sleep where dreams blur into reality and it's almost like the sleeping and waking worlds blur and become one.”
Source: Everything All at Once
“It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.”
“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton