I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.”
“It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.”
“It is our first duty to serve society.”
“It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.”
“It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of America.”
“It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.”
“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”
“It is our glory to use artificial intelligence, swarm drones, quantum computing and other modern technologies for removing the pain of the humanity. But it is a big disaster for the scientists and the humanity to use these technologies for developing mass destruction weapons.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Intelligence: Frameworks and Algorithms
“It is our grand vision of love which compels us to be sensual.”
“It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.”
Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us”
Source: A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...
“It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.”
“It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.”
“It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.”
“It is our hope that when people read "March" - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.”
“It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.”
Source: New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies
“It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.”
“It is our human need - to circle back to the station of our sorrow.”
Source: After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story
“It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.”
Source: Building the Bridge As You Walk On It: A Guide for Leading Change
“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.”
Source: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.”
“It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.”
“It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won’t depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“It is our job to continue imagining higher, and even higher, states of being - higher thoughts, word and deeds - in order that we might continue creating ourselves anew in the next grandest version of ourselves.”
“It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.”
“It is our job to follow the impulse, or vision, placed in our hearts at birth and then to release that impulse into the unseen hand of the Beloved for manifestation.”
Source: Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer
“It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.”
“It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.”
Source: New Day, New You: 365 Devotions for Enjoying Everyday Life
“It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.”
“It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”
“It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.”
“It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.”
“It is our minds that create this world.”
“It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.”
“It is our mission to enrich the lives of those around us. Therefore, such an action is not a choice nor does it fall to the bane of our selfish preferences. Nonetheless we presume it a choice that we defer to others who might be more aligned with such ideals. And in doing so we trudge through our lives leaving footprints empty and barren. And should a passerby catch sight of those prints, they might wonder why we were so foolish as to walk in such a way. And if at some point that passerby should happen to be us, regret will be added to the footprints which we already regret.”
“It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty”
“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”
“It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.”
“It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.”
“It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.”
Source: The Will to Power
“It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.”
“It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now.”
“It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.”
Source: The Last Barrier: A Universal Search for Self Discovery
“It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.”
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us
Our thoughts make things beautiful
Our thoughts make things ugly
The whole world is in our own minds Learn to see things in the proper light”
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.”
Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is our personal discovery that pain can be acknowledged, even held lovingly, that enables us to look at the pain around us unflinchingly and feel compassion being born in us. We need to start with ourselves.”
Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness