I Quotes
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“It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.”
“It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.”
“It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.”
“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.”
“It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist”
“It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.”
Source: The Promised Land
“It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false “me” no longer identifies himself with his suffering.”
Source: Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way
“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.”
Source: Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
“It is only the brave who win life’s rewards. Those who don’t overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things.”
“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”
Source: Sketchbook 1946-1949
“It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.”
“It is only the Creator that can set thy soul free from every struggle.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.”
Source: Monks are Monks: A Diagnostic Scherzo
“It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.”
“It is only the dead who do not return.”
Source: THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers,Twenty Years After,The Vicomte of Bragelonne,Ten Years Later,Louise da la Valliere&The Man in the Iron Mask: Adventure Classics
“It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.”
“It is only the early human mid that grew to strive against the prospect of the final annihilation of the self, a hallmark rebellion that became hard-wired into, and always an essential element of, nature.”
Source: The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies
“It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.”
“It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.”
“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.”
Source: The Art of War
“It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
“It is only the fear of death that makes death seem important.”
“It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.”
“It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.”
Source: Backlog Studies
“It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 1 - 35 (Annotated Edition)
“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”
Source: Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
“It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.”
“It is only the ignorant who despise education.”
“It is only the illiterate beggar who needs full support from you both in food and better quality of educational programmes.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.”
“It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.”
Source: I Go A-fishing
“It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.”
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“It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
“It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.”
“It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.”
“It is only the man that has done his best that qualifies to ask for God’s protection and blessings. This message must return to our pulpit.”
“It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.”
Source: Studies in Pessimism
“It is only the mind which does not belong that can be alone. And aloneness is not something to be cultivated. You see this? When you see all this, you are out, and no governor or president is going to invite you to dinner. Out of that aloneness there is humility. It is this aloneness that knows love—not power. The ambitious man, religious or ordinary, will never know what love is. So, if one sees all this, then one has this quality of total living and therefore total action. This comes through self-knowledge.”
“It is only the mind which does not belong that can be alone. And aloneness is not something to be cultivated. You see this? When you see all this, you are out, and no governor or president is going to invite you to dinner. Out of that aloneness there is humility. It is this aloneness that knows love—not power. The ambitious man, religious or ordinary, will never know what love is. So, if one sees all this, then one has this quality of total living and therefore total action. This comes through self-knowledge.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu. The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti (Kindle Locations 933-936). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.”
Source: The Book of Life: Daily Meditations With Krishnamurti
“It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.”
“It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.”