I Quotes
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“It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.”
“It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.”
Source: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph
“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it”
Source: Writings
“It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.”
Source: Uncommon Sense
“It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.”
“It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.”
Source: Science, Order, and Creativity
“It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type”
“It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”
Source: Bridget Jones’s Diary
“It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.”
“It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.”
“It is proven that cars can affect your health.”
Source: Light Forensics
“It is proven that the glass in your environment may be able to affect your health.”
Source: Light Forensics
“It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.”
“It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.”
“It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
Source: State of the Union Addresses
“It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.”
“It is prudent to analyze the dynamics of innovations and its sustainable transition.”
“It is prudent to assume everyone you meet in the USA is carrying a gun.”
“It is prudent to be suspicious of Florida media releases.”
“It is prudent to treat for radiation sickness in the weeks following an X-Ray radiation computerized tomography (CT) scan.”
“It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.”
“It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.”
“It is psychology's task to cast light on what we want to keep concealed.”
Source: The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
“It is psychotic and hateful behavior. But such behaviour is typical in many war zones. Cartel thugs have gone beyond the pale because they are completely immersed in a violent conflict, living like soldiers in the trenches. Imagine the life of Zetas thugs in the war-torn northeast of Mexico, fighting daily with soldiers and rival gangs, moving from safe house to safe house, completely divorced from the reality of normal citizens. In these ghastly conditions they commit atrocities that the world finds so hard to comprehend. For many of these cartel soldiers on the front line, war and insurgency have become their central mission. While thugs have traditionally talked about fighting over drug smuggling, now many are talking about smuggling drugs to finance their war.”
Source: El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“It is public land and we will do our best to provide recreational activities. We are looking at initially allowing kayak access, wade fishing, bicycle access and walking access on some of the interior roads.”
“It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the shins one afternoon because you helped an old lady across the road in the morning.”
Source: Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
“It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.”
“It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.”
“It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage, but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militance wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many do not even want.”
“It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.”
“It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.”
“It is puzzling why anyone would want to (become governor of California). It's like vying to become Roseanne Barr's next husband. Sure you'd get your name in the paper, but look at the mess you'd be getting yourself into.”
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
“It is queer how quick new things do become Ordinary & then when you reflects on where you used to live it is that place which seems Exotic & Strange . . . /”
Source: Duke
“It is queer to be in a place when someone has gone. It is not two other places, the place that they were there in, and the place that was there before they came. I can't get used to this third place or to staying behind.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism
“It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.”
“It is quiet at home today. I got my wisdom tooth extracted.”
“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.”
“It is quiet in the clearing, though gradually Lillian's ears attune to the soft rustling of insects and birds moving through the undergrowth, the faraway tapping of a woodpecker high in a tree. Down on the ground, a bronze-colored beetle tries to scale the side of her shoe. It slips on the smooth leather and tumbles back into the dry leaves, waggling its legs in the air.
She shifts slightly on the tree trunk then watches as Jack pulls a strand of grass from a clump growing nearby and sucks on one end, looking about at the canopy overhead. "Wonderful light," he murmurs. "I wish I hadn't left my sketchbook at the house."
She knows she must say something. But the moment stretches and she can't find the words so instead she looks about, trying to see the clearing as he might, trying to view the world through an artist's eyes. What details would he pull from this scene, what elements would he commit to memory to reproduce on paper?
A cathedral, he'd said; and she supposes there is something rather celestial and awe-inspiring about the tall, arched trees and the light streaming in golden shafts through the soft green branches, filtered as though through stained glass.”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles.”
“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective. And the most peculiar discovery Nora made was that, of all the extremely divergent variations of herself she had experienced, the most radical sense of change happened within the exact same life. The one she began and ended with.
This biggest and most profound shift happened not by becoming richer or more successful or more famous or by being amid the glaciers and polar bears of Svalbard. It happened by waking up in the exact same bed, in the same grotty damp apartment with its dilapidated sofa and yucca plant and tiny potted cacti and bookshelves and untried yoga manuals.
There was the same electric piano and books. There was the same sad absence of a feline and lack of a job. There was still the same unknowability about her life ahead.
And yet, everything was different.
And it was different because she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfillment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or partner or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.
And it was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live. Because she had touched the vastness of life and within that vastness she had seen the possibility not only of what she could do, but also feel. There were other scales and other tunes. There was more to her than a flat line of mild to moderate depression, spiced up with occasional flourishes of despair. And that gave her hope, and even the sheer sentimental gratitude of being able to be here, knowing she had the potential to enjoy watching radiant skies and mediocre Ryan Bailey comedies and be happy listening to music and conversation and beat of her own heart.
And it was different because, above all other things, that heavy and painful Book of Regrets had been successfully burnt to dust.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“It is quite a surprise how evil people do not die easily and wait for a heroic death, or perhaps God wants to set an example and wait for an appropriate time for justice to be delivered”
Source: Porus : In the Shadow of Betrayals
“It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me lest I fall.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”
“It is quite a three-pipe problem.”