I Quotes
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“It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.”
“It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.”
“It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.”
“It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”
Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.”
“It is people like me who are isolated.”
“It is people like you who spread racism like an uncontrollable wildfire.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“It is People that make Buildings not Buildings that make people”
Source: Volunteers Handbook
“It is people who are important, not the masses.”
“It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.”
“It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - none of which were inspired by religion. If we want to understand the dangers of our world, we can no longer accept the old received ideas.”
“It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.”
“It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.”
“It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and peace to you all.”
“It is people's hearts that move the age.”
“It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.”
“It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.”
“It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.”
“It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions. It is one more reason why the mind will choose a physical rather than an emotional manifestation when confronted with unpleasant emotional phenomena. (page 68)”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.”
Source: Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
“It is perfectly American to be wrong.”
“It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.”
“It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.”
“It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.”
“It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.”
“It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment”
“It is perfectly fine to not have big dreams and goals.”
“It is perfectly fine to search all over, stumble along the way, and eventually find Happiness within you, in being who you are, in living with what is!”
“It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.”
“It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.”
Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm
“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”
“It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.”
“It is perfectly normal if your philosophies have shifted since your last book. You are human. Therefore, you are forever evolving. In my opinion, this actually makes for a more intriguing piece because people resonate with these natural cycles of life.”
“It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.”
“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.”
“It is perfectly possible that a grandfather can have a more scientific mind than his grandchildren! Societies do not always go forward! Sometimes old generations are much luckier!”
“It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.”
“It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.”
“it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.”
“It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
“It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.”
“It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.”
“It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.”
“It is perfectly scientific,' Lev protests, rising to draw the heavy dining room curtains against the streetlamp light, reducing it to a glow that bleeds amber round the edges and between the panels of plum brocade. Lev turns back into the room but stays by the window a moment to observe the new play of light, the chandelier casting shards of glitter upon mahogany and bold shadows across the high brow and long sharp plains of Katya's timeless face. Oh my wife.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“It is perfectly serendipitous,' said the boy, descending the steps to the street. 'Fancy that—us meeting a second time! Of course I have wished for it, very much—but they were vain wishes; the kind one makes in twilight states, you know, idly. I remember just what you said, as we rounded the heads of the harbor—in the dawn light. "I should like to see him in a storm," you said. I have thought of it many times, since; it was the most delightfully original of speeches.'
Anna blushed at this: not only had she never heard herself described as an original before, she had certainly never supposed that her utterances qualified as 'speeches.”
Source: The Luminaries
“It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.”