I Quotes
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“It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.”
“It is one thing to think horrible thoughts, but it is another to behave atrociously, as you know. You can easily think of times when you were horrible, and when I say easily I mean it is very easy to remember these times and hard to stop remembering. They ache in the brain and the body, these shameful memories, like a broken bone that has never quite healed right.”
Source: Poison for Breakfast
“It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.”
“It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.”
Source: Gospel
“It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.”
Source: Essays (second Series) on Some of the Difficulties in the Writings of the Apostle Paul: And in Other Parts of the New Testament
“It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.”
“It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.”
“It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.”
Source: Matthew Arnold
“It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.”
“It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.”
“It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.”
Source: Stones of the Sur
“It is only a mad man who will stand in the middle of a heavy rain screaming that the sun is scorching”
Source: I AM A WOMAN I AM A HUMAN: UNLEASHING THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF WOMEN
“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.”
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer
“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”
“It is only a matter of time before another nuclear bomb is detonated during war.”
“It is only a matter of time before the Space program kills a civilian with a piece of rocket or satellite debris.”
“It is only a matter of time before utility smart meter health damage lawsuits start winning in large numbers, and when they do they will have no option but to shut down the known biologically toxic smart meter radio frequency (RF) industry.”
“It is only a matter of time before we have category 6 hurricanes.”
“It is only a metaphor—or the worst of dreams; yet there are metaphors which sit more powerfully in the brain than remembered events.”
Source: The Only Story
“It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
“It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.”
Source: The Image
“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.”
Source: The Image
“It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.”
“It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.”
“It is only a true mystery that can never be solved.”
“It is only a woman who can make a man feel like a 'superhero' or 'inadequate'.
Its her attention and admiration that a man desperately seeks!”
Source: Dance of the Spirits: A Novel
“It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.”
Source: Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress
“It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.”
“It is only after a person surrenders achieving “The American Dream,” and annihilates any personal thought of living exclusively for material gain that a person commences a journey worthy of a spiritual warrior, a glorious destiny of self-realization in lieu of pursing the opulence of a gilded life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.”
Source: The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution
“It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government.”
“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)
“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.”
Source: The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)
“It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come”
“It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.”
“It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.”
“It is only after you break someone’s heart and before you buy something healthy; their worth is ironically incurred in this world.”
“It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.”
Source: Mr. Palomar
“It is only against the big waves that he is required to use all his skill, all his courage and concentration to overcome; only then can he realize the true limits of his capacities. At that point he often attains his peak. In other words, the more challenging the obstacle he faces, the greater the opportunity for the surfer to discover and extend his true potential. The potential may have always been within him, but until it is manifested in action, it remains a secret hidden from himself. The obstacles are a very necessary ingredient to this process of self-discovery. Note that the surfer in this example is not out to prove himself; he is not out to show himself or the world how great he is, but is simply involved in the exploration of his latent capacities. He directly and intimately experiences his own resources and thereby increases his self-knowledge.”
Source: The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
“It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.”
“It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.”
“It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.”
Source: The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters
“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works