I Quotes
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“It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.”
“It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.”
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“It is part of nature's plan to bountifully reward farmers. And to wipe out starvation from their language and memory.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.”
“It is part of our condition as women today that none of us is genuinely liberated. It is a symptom of our subordination that we consistently underrate ourselves.”
Source: Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation
“It is part of our inheritance to be, above all, secure and confident in the will of God.”
“It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.”
“It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little . . . We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work . . . in order to free their hold.”
“It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?”
“It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.”
“It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.”
“It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.”
Source: Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language
“It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.”
“It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.”
Source: Experience And Education
“It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”
“It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.”
Source: The Subjection of Women
“It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold.”
“It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.”
Source: Letters on Life: New Prose Translations
“It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.”
“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of a child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing. And so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us.”
“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.”
Source: Camera in London
“It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.”
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists.”
“It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.”
“It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.”
“It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort. Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I'm proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.”
“It is particularly challenging looking how I look, but I think of my beautiful, swirled-up babies and I think, "You know what? I will be an example for you." I believe you can set the tone for any room or any conversation by being the first one to lead with love.”
“It is particularly important to note that, in a democracy, education has never been concerned only with supplying the needs of the economy or ensuring effective socialisation; it also has strong traditions of preparing for citizenship, extending possibilities for learning and promoting social progress.”
Source: Feminisms in Education: An Introduction
“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.”
“It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbours respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.”
Source: Part 5. of the New Existence of Man Upon the Earth in Winch is Continued the Outline of Mr. Owen's Life...[etc]
“It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.”
“It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.”
“It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.”
“It is passivity that dulls feeling.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
Source: Don Quixote
“It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.”
Source: The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings
“It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.”
“It is past time for us as a society to come together against prejudice toward any person or persons.”
“It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.”
“It is patent that any group [believing itself to be] surrounded by a world of unbending and irreconcilable foes would see the abyss between itself and them as one that could be spanned by no tie or social obligation. Within such a group, the lie—as told to the "others"—would be neither an act merely tolerated nor a simple rule of social behavior; it would become obligatory and be transformed into a virtue.”
Source: Réflexions sur le mensonge
“It is pathetic how people attach value to race. Some people say race is real and that race doesn’t matter. The fact is, race shouldn’t exist—it is not real. It is made up, but race does matter.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“It is pathetic how people attach value to race. Some people say race is real and that race doesn’t matter. The fact is, race shouldn’t exist—it is not real. It is made up, but race does matter. Race shouldn’t matter, but it does. In society's eyes, race is stubbornly real.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.”