I Quotes
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“It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.”
“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.”
“It is only in the acknowledgement of what doesn’t work that we can create sufficient space to craft something that does. And arrogance is certain to become mired in defeat because it refuses to accept the former so that it might achieve the latter.”
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism
“It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.”
Source: Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica
“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.”
“It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.”
“It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.”
“It is only in the desperate seconds before death that we realize the windows against which we broke our bodies were only mirror, all along.”
Source: Imagine Me
“It is only in the desperate seconds before death that we realize the windows against which we broke our bodies were only mirrors, all along.”
Source: Imagine Me
“It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.”
“It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.”
“It is only in the heart that anything really happens.”
“It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular in Japan at all. Hardly anybody practices Zen any more because it's just too strict; there are too many rules.”
“It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.”
“It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.”
Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality
“It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)
“It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)
“It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.”
Source: The Golden Pot and Other Tales
“It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land”
“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.”
Source: The Wanderess
“It is only in the presence of God that we find the relief that comes from being ourselves - exposing all of our brokenness - and knowing that He is not disappointed. His love doesn't waver. We are His. He has adopted us. He wants us, even when we have nothing to give.”
Source: Strong Spirit: Hope for Women Living with Illness
“It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.”
“It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck
“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
“It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.”
“It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”
Source: Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions
“It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom.”
“It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.”
“It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.”
“It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone.”
Source: Manifest Your Desires: 365 Ways to Make Your Dreams a Reality
“It is only inspiration that can bring wisdom to an uneducated or empty head.”
“It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.”
Source: The Republic
“It is only kindness and love, which can change the human heart.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is only life and love that give love and life.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“It is only light that can extinguish darkness.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world”
“It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.”
“It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.”
“It is only losers that are prosecuted.”
“It is only love that fuels the spirit of great deeds.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.”
“It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.”
“It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.”
“It is only me who wants the death of our brother to have caused a crater in our parents’ lives. Not that they should suffer, but that we might know that we have mattered.”
Source: Next of Kin: A Memoir
“It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.”
“It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that comes very naturally to me. From the beginning, I never followed trends. If I was aware of them, I didn't care, for I believed as I do now, that rooms should be timeless and very personal. I don't set out to achieve a particular style. And I certainly don't have a 'look' - just a mishmash of everything that somehow, by instinct, usually turns out to be a warm imaginative, 'living room'.”