I Quotes
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“It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.”
“It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.”
Source: The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder
“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”
Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953
“It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on foot by the thoughts we shelter. Our myriad intuitions are the veiled queens who steer our course through life, though we have no words in which to speak of them. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words!”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble
“It is only too obvious that favoritism inevitably exists: it would have been useless to complain to human beings. So I said nothing of the truth.”
Source: No Longer Human
“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.”
Source: Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality
“It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.”
“It is only under the plane trees of Granada that la cachucha is danced by eternally young gypsies. Eternally young, like the roses are, because every spring there are new ones.”
Source: Gösta Berling's Saga
“It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction
“It is only up to the Syrian people living in Syria to determine who, how and based on what principles should rule their country, and any external advice would be absolutely inappropriate, harmful and against international law.”
“It is only upon life’s new journey & pathway that your greatest learning - will be experienced.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment: Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals
“It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .”
Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
“It is only water as long as its internal realm of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, remains intact. If you break that structure which we call H20, it ceases to be water. Likewise, a soul remains a soul, as long as its neural structures remain intact. If you mess with those structures, then the entire personality of the soul may get radically altered. So, to think even further, if those neural structures inside your head stop working, then the soul ceases to exist forever.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.”
Source: The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...
“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”
Source: Dracula
“It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.”
“It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart.”
Source: American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China
“It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.”
Source: The managerial choice: to be efficient and to be human
“It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.”
“It is only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him, and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him. She becomes a priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen!”
“It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.”
“It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.”
“It is only when all the peoples of all countries grow together holding hands in harmony and not pointing guns at each other in hatred, that we can really advance in the path of progress as one species.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in the circumstances that surround him, that the deeper sources of his subconscious gently open, and from them come feelings we cannot always analyse.”
Source: An Actor Prepares
“It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”
Source: Moby Dick
“It is only when faced with deep differences, with cultural miscommunication and moral conflict, that we become aware that our way of seeing the world is not universally shared.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.”
“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.”
“It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.”
Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering
“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”
Source: Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990
“It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.”
Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization
“It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered, human values can grow only in a spiritual soil. If a man wants to cultivate human values, he has to apply the manure of spirituality to his heart, water it with love so that human values will grow.”
“It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.”
“It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.”
Source: An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians
“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.”
Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses
“It is only when men live their lives within the correct perspective of the Creator-creature relationship that social and political harmony and order prevail. "The peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ." When men repudiate this relationship, disharmony and disorder introduced for the first time by Lucifer, once the most magnificent of all God's creatures, who overcome with pride, boasted: Non serviam - "I will not serve." The Catechism teaches us that our purpose in life is to know, love, and serve God in this world so that we can be happy with Him forever in the next. We cannot claim to love God if we do not serve Him, and we cannot claim to serve God if we do not subject ourselves to the law of Christ the King. "If you love me," He warned, "keep my commandments." (John 14:15)”
Source: Vatican II and the Rein of Christ the King
“It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.”
“It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.”
“it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.”
Source: The First Codex
“It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life.”
Source: Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
“It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.”
“It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.”
“It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ; it is only when one loves life and the earth so much that without them everything seems to be over that one may believe in the resurrection and a new world; it is only when one submits to God's law that one may speak of grace; and it is only when God's wrath and vengeance are hanging as grim realities over the heads of one's enemies that something of what it means to love and forgive them can touch our hearts.”
“It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”
Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN
“It is only when our consciences become tangled that the truth begins to hurt.”
“It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.”
Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.”
“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.”
Source: The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956
“It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision...That is the sort of time we live in now. We...live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.”