I Quotes
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“It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.”
“It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action.”
“It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.”
“It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.”
Source: More: Utopia
“It is only necessary to believe and begin to move forward toward the set goals”
“It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.”
“It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.”
“It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.”
“It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.”
Source: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
“It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.”
“It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.”
Source: The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether
“It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”
“It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.”
“It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.”
“it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.”
“It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.”
“It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.”
Source: Important speeches and writings of Subhas Bose: being a collection of most significant speeches and writings of Subhas Bose
“It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.”
Source: Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
“It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“It is only once it is formulated, named in the presence of the other, that desire appears in the full sense of the term.”
Source: [(The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 3: The Psychoses)] [Author: Jacques Lacan] published on
“It is only once you see the baffled expression on the face of your enemy when you give his cruel words a warm smile that you’ll understand, truly understand, what love is all about.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“It is only one Life that you have; just this one lifetime! So, please don’t postpone Happiness, don’t postpone living. Of course, you can’t avoid the lows, the crises, the tragedies. But you can learn to be happy despite the circumstances. You do that by accepting whatever comes your way and by letting go of debilitating emotions. Remember: only when you let go of something can you receive another…clinging on never helps…so, to receive grace and abundance…let go, let go, let go…of all that makes you unhappy and…simply flow with Life!”
“It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.”
Source: The Art of War
“It is only other people’s ridiculous beliefs or customs that seem ridiculous to us.”
“It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“It is only our dedication towards our passion that distinguishes a champion from the crowd.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.”
Source: The development of personality
“It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.”
“It is only our limited time frame that creates the whole "natives versus exotics" controversy. Wind animals, sea currents, and continental drift have always dispersed species into new environments... The planet has been awash in surging , swarming species movement since life began. The fact that it is not one great homogeneous tangled weed lot is persuasive testimony to the fact that intact ecosystems are very difficult to invade.”
“It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.”
“It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.”
“It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.”
“It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.”
“It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'”
“It is only perhaps two or three occasions in a lifetime that an outrageous idea comes to one and all the pieces seem to fit; this was such an occasion.”
“It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.”
“It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.”
“It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.”
“It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.”
Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
Source: Meditations on First Philosophy
“It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.”
“It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.”
“It is only recently that fairy tale, fantasy, myth, have been thought of as being exclusively for children... These so-called children's stories are aware of what many adults have forgotten- that the daily, time-bound world of provable fact is the secondary world, the shadow world, and it is story, painting, song, which give us our glimpses of reality.”
Source: The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth
“It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.”
“It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.”