I Quotes
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“It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.”
“It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you.”
Source: The Wishing-ring Man
“it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.”
“It is rather difficult to envisage a scenario that could change the domestic situation in the countries of the South Caucasus without solving the problems constantly hindering normal cooperation in the region.”
“It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”
“It is rather interesting how you get used to death.”
“It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.”
“It is rather paradoxical for our task-focused self when it isn't the quality of the practice, but our honest and humble acceptance of the emerging moment, that prepares us for nonjudgemental, agendaless presence with another.
Being kind to ourselves can be helpful as we seek to practice this way of being, because it places us at cross-purposes with our culture, where performance and improvement are so valued and the limits and variability of our humanness are cause for criticism and correction.
Many aspects of our training as well as our everyday experience in this society urge us to take control to achieve a particular result, and this can become so implicitly ingrained that it feels wrong to sink toward our innate humanity.
Again, just listening with kindness to the competing voices inside is good preparation for extending this attentiveness and kindness to all aspects of the person about to come in our door.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“It is rather pitiful how obvious it is, and usually how simple it can be, for one to be blunt and critical, all the while fooling oneself into thinking that it makes him look sharp and analytical.”
“It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.”
“It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.”
“It is rather that I believe in the reality of what’s being named more than in the name itself.”
Source: Petals of Blood
“It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?”
“It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.”
“It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.”
“It is rather your limitation that decides to what extent of greatness and to what height you are going to arise in this life. Your level of promotion in life is determined by how much you know.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is rational to be weary of mass migration. Logically thinking, it signals an awareness that we do not produce a sufficient quantity of resources to feed, home and clothe our own, so how can we become an idyllic multicultural society, which provides equally for everyone?”
“It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.”
“It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.”
“It is real hard work that will release your potential,”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is real, Lass.... You are mine as I am yours.”
Source: Forbidden Love
“It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this - what did he call it? - a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.”
“It is really a fantastic thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the genuine probation.”
“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
Source: The man in the brown suit
“It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.”
Source: Mark Rothko
“It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living.”
“It is really amazing to be able to do cinematic, big feature style film music on a weekly basis and do it in LA, on a big scoring stage, on a studio lot, and do it with the right players and make it sound great.”
“It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.”
“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.”
“it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.”
“It is really awkward to see myself on screen.”
“It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.”
“It is really crucial that folks focus on their own representatives. If you call or write a member who does not represent you, I can tell you that contact is going to be a waste of time. You might as well just talk to yourself in your living room.”
“It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.”
“It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.”
“It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.”
“It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.”
“It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive".”
“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.”
Source: I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
“It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.”
“It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely”
“It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.”
“It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.”
“It is really important (to win). It's always like, "You should win; you should win," If I win, I've proven (it) to them... It'd be pretty cool.”
“It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.”
“It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.”