I Quotes
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“It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly.”
Source: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.”
Source: Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world
“It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“It is poor solace to speak of the passing of time and grief," the master said. His quiet voice had gone somehow bleak, though Araene could not decide where in his unchanging tone the difference lay. "We do not wish our grief to fade, for it marks the love and honor in which we held our lost kinsmen. Nevertheless, permit me to assure you that while you may find peace a barren desert, yet eventually it may bloom.”
Source: The Floating Islands
“It is poppycock to think that it is necessary to resort to laws to make America greater by banning comic books... This is a matter for the home, the school, the church, and other family influences - not the legislatures.”
Source: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
“It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.”
“It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.”
Source: Witness
“It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.”
“It is positive that the United States and the European Union show a great deal of unity. Putin did not expect that. He thought he could split the EU, but the opposite happened: The EU imposed sanctions and even scaled them up. Of course we need more financial and military aid, the supply of lethal weapons is of crucial importance to us.”
“It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.”
“It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.”
“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.”
“It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.”
“It is possible for a man to know whether God has called him or not, and he may know it too beyond a doubt. He may know it as surely as if he read it with his own eyes; nay, he may know it more surely than that, for if I read a thing with my eyes, even my eyes may deceived me, the testimony of sense may be false, but the testimony of the Spirit must be true. We have the witness of the Spirit within, bearing witness with our spirits that we are born of God. There is such a thing on earth as an infallible assurance of our election. Let a man once get that, and it will anoint his head with fresh oil, it will clothe him with the white garment of praise, and put the son of the angel into his mouth. Happy, happy man! who is fully assured of his interest in the covenant of grace, in the blood of atonement, and in the glories of heaven! Such men there are here this very day. Let them 'rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say rejoice.'
What would some of you give if you could arrive at this assurance? Mark, if you anxiously desire to know, you may know. If your heart pants to read its title clear it shall do so ere long. No man ever desired Christ in his heart with a living and longing desire, who did not find Him sooner or later. If thou hast a desire, God has given it thee. If thou pantest, and criest, and groanest after Christ, even this is His gift; bless Him for it. Thank Him for little grace, and ask Him for great grace. He has given thee hope, ask for faith; and when He gives thee faith, ask for assurance; and when thou gettest assurance, ask for full assurance; and when thou hast obtained full assurance, ask for enjoyment; and when thou hast enjoyment, ask for glory itself; and He shall surely give it thee in His own appointed season.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon - Volume 22, Sermons
“It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)”
Source: Littlewood's Miscellany
“It is possible for a person to change, this change however must occur willingly, and should never be forced.”
“It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.”
“It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.”
Source: The Spinster Book
“It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.”
“It is possible for all slot machine addicts to stop playing. There is no one path to that outcome. Everyone is different. The paths are long and hard and full of failure. But if you keep trying, you can get there. Something will eventually work. Know that, stay alive, and don't give up.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“It is possible for children to learn and improve their eating skills in ways that will automatically lead them to a healthier diet.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?”
“It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.”
“It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.”
“It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.”
“It is possible for love to grow and multiply if you work at it.”
“It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.”
“It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.”
“It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.”
“It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.”
Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.”
“It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship.”
“It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.”
“It is possible for USA citizens to apply for the eVisa and stay in India for 180 days with the travel document's multiple entries. Citizens of the United States can visit India on an Indian e-visa for recreation, business, and tourism purposes.”
“It is possible for you to be the wrong one in an argument about you.”
“It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.”
“It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is possible for your ex, your boyfriend or girlfriend, or your husband or wife, to no longer be your type.”
“It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue.”
Source: Mr. Peanut
“It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you.”
“It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“It is possible I might regret being Childfree, but it is also possible that I might regret not being an astronaut (and neither is a choice for me).”
Source: The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing
“It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.”
“It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.”
“It is possible in theory and I think true in practice that centralization could have been the optimal solution at the beginning of the computer era and now, but not in between. And it may change back again with some other technological development. Some things move in a straight line. Others move like a pendulum.”
“It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.”
“It is possible,” said Miss Marling stiffly, “that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of the journey.”
Vidal chuckled. “Not if I know my Mary,” he replied”
Source: Devil's Cub
“It is possible, she says, the men in prison are not guilty of the attacks. But are they guilty of not stopping the attacks? Are they guilty of knowing about the attacks and doing nothing?...How should we know what they're guilty of or not?...But we do know,... We do know that the conditions of Molotschna have been created by man, that these attacks have been made possible, even the conception of these acts, the planning of these attacks, the rationale for these attacks within the minds of the men, because of the circumstances of Molotschna. And those circumstances have been created and ordained by the men,...”
Source: Women Talking
“It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half”