I Quotes
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“It is really important that companies prioritize strategic financial planning because this empowers them to navigate economic challenges with foresight and resilience.”
“It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.”
“It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key.”
“It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.”
“It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.”
“It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.”
“It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.”
“It is really irritating to work with irritating people”
Source: Then We Came to the End
“It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.”
“It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything and descent of little weight-in some, resemblance seems to go for nothing, and Creation the reigning idea-in some, descent is the key,-in some, sterility an unfailing test, with others it is not worth a farthing. It all comes, I believe, from trying to define the undefinable.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“It is really like a family. We are around each other more than we are around anybody else. The time we spend together, and the hard work we put in together, it is going to build a close team.”
“It is really most absurd to wish to turn this scene of misery into a pleasure spot and set ourselves the goal of achieving pleasures and joys instead of freedom from pain, as so many do. Those who, with too gloomy a gaze, regard this world as a kind of hell and, accordingly, are only concerned with procuring a fireproof room in it, are much less mistaken. The fool runs after the pleasures of life and sees himself cheated; the sage avoids evils. But if even this should fail, then it is the fault of fate, not of his foolishness. However, insofar as he succeeds, he has not been cheated; for the evils that he evades are very real. Even if he should have gone too far in avoiding them and unnecessarily sacrificed enjoyments, nothing is really lost; for all pleasures are chimerical, and to mourn over missing out on them would be petty, indeed ridiculous.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?”
“It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.”
“It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.”
“It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.”
“It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.”
“It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.”
“It is really really important that you deal with Trump either by letter or by personal contact. Trying to deal with him on telephones or through the media is not a good idea.”
“It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!”
“It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.”
“It is really sad that those who really do contribute to the community are not thanked a lot, and those who are living off of society's expense are celebrated. Worse, those who help the community are disrespected and smeared, they're treated with contempt and ridicule, while those who are only famous for entertaining others are treated like Gods".”
“It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.”
“It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are bad, and are going on right now, somewhere far away. We think, "Well, what are you gonna do?" In a way, that little instinct, that "What are you gonna do?" is the most dangerous thing in the world.”
“It is really striking," says Gary Snyder, "that so very many people at Zen Center reject the term religion when it is applied to what they are doing. What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. That's Buddhism.”
Source: Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
“It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me; perhaps it is because I am always ready to meet an agreeable situation a little more than halfway.”
Source: End Papers: Literary Recreations
“It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality.”
“It is really weird, things have just been crazy. Everything has happened so quickly I haven't had a chance to think.”
“It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.”
“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.”
Source: Dracula
“It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.”
“It is reasonable after calling the police to expect a police officer suffering from Cumulative Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) to show up.”
“It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015”
“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice”
Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.”
“It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.”
Source: Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)
“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.”
Source: Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration
“It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.”
Source: The Internal Constitution of the Stars
“It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained.”
“It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”
“It is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.”
“It is reasonable to think that the health and well-being of your family will eventually be damaged by the effects of corporate government deregulation.”
“It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.”
“It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.”
Source: Wake-up calls
“It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“It is recommended that you keep your doors locked to prevent an armed police officer from walking into your home and shooting you dead.”
“It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners.”
“It is recorded in the two Sahihs that the Prophet, God grant him blessing and peace, said: “Shun the seven destroyers.’’ They said, “What are they?’’ He said, “Ascribing partners to God, sorcery, killing a soul that God has forbidden except justly, consuming usury, consuming an orphan’s property, fleeing from the battlefield, and slandering chaste, innocent believing women.”
Source: Ranks of the Divine Seekers A Parallel English-Arabic Text. Volume 1 (Islamic Translation)
“It is recorded that during the long winter after the Battle of Fredericksburg, when the two rival armies were camped on opposite sides of the Rappahannock, with the boys on the opposing picket posts daily swapping coffee for tobacco and comparing notes on their generals, their rations, and other matters, and with each camp in full sight and hearing of the other, one evening massed Union bands came down to the river bank to play all of the old songs, plus the more rousing tunes like "John Brown's Body," "The Battle Cry of Freedom," and "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching." Northerners and Southerners, the soldiers sang those songs or sat and listened to them, massed in their thousands on the hillsides, while the darkness came down to fill the river valley and the light of the campfires glinted off the black water. Finally the Southerners called across, "Now play some of ours," so without pause the Yankee bands swung into "Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue Flag" and "Maryland, My Maryland," and then at last the massed bands played "Home, Sweet Home," and 150,000 fighting men tried to sing it and choked up and just sat there, silent, staring off into the darkness; and at last the music died away and the bandsmen put up their instruments and both armies went to bed. A few weeks later they were tearing each other apart in the lonely thickets around Chancellorsville.”
Source: Mr. Lincoln's Army