I Quotes
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“It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.”
“It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.”
“It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar, unwilling to explore the unfamiliar. In science, we respect the research worker. In literature, we should not always read the books blessed by the majority.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 5: 1947-1955
“It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.”
“It is right to be satisfied with what you have, never with what you are.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“It is right to give every man his due.”
“It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.”
“It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."”
Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV
“It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“It is right to rebel against reactionaries.”
Source: Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71
“It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.”
“It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.”
“It is right, therefore, that we not just be called Christians, but that we actually be Christians.”
“It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.”
Source: The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature
“It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position”
“It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.”
“It is rudeness of the highest order to hit a family when they are down.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“It is rumored that Francis Crick was on LSD when he discovered DNA. If one had to bet their life, one would be likely to tell you that the vast majority of discoveries have been made by people not on LSD... It’s probably unlikely that you would happen to run into a cult of really drugged up, “tripping-face” dudes crushing it in the business world or crushing it in the stock market etc.”
Source: sciVive
“It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!”
Source: Max
“It is sad
To see the light of beauty wane away,
Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet
Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness;
But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone,
To lose hope, care not for the coming thing,
And feel all things go to decay within us.”
“It is sad and oddly comforting once you realize that chaos is the natural order”
“It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the "fear of They," and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and weak-kneed congressmen.”
“It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.”
Source: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850
“It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.”
“It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche
“It is sad comedy the way sane people clad in rough fad fit only for the insane. The unkempt hair, torn clothes, sagging pants, topless tops, ladder high heels, solar panel sunshades, slits longer than clothes, etc. Madness is everywhere!”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It is sad. I have seen people becoming the people they hate. People becoming the people whom they condemn. People being the problem they fight. People becoming the monsters they fear, because of anger.”
“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
“it is sad, of course, to forget. But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten. To remember when no one else does”
“It is sad that in this world people put great merit in what a person has more than what a person is.”
“It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.”
“It is sad that our reality sounds like a conspiracy theory. Who would have ever thought that our very own people we elected, our very own government and media . They colluded with greedy people and are the ones behind our sufferings, unemployment, crime, troubles, killings, murder, poverty, infection, pandemic, sickness, failure and death . They made us think we are crazy and are making things up. Meanwhile they are the ones who are corrupt to the core. They are villains not victims. They create problems for us so they can try to come up with solutions that can make them profit.”
“It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.”
“It is sad that people seek money more than wisdom.”
“It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.”
“It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.”
“It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.”
“It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial and economical freedom that I didn't have.”
“It is sad that this country is condemned by a generational curse of centuries and decades of hate. The pollution of hate will end when we speak the truth without everyone thinking the fingers are being pointed at them.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.”
“It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.”
Source: The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel
“It is sad that we should meet only thus at the ending. For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. I do not think we shall meet again.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.”
Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
“It is sad that you pick a partner, have kids and then watch the person you planned to spend the rest of your life with fall apart.”
“It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.”
“It is sad to consider life’s impermanency.
To touch the world with one’s
special grace and to then leave it ...
behind.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“It is sad to forget. But it's a lonely thing to be forgotten.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”
“It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.”
Source: Maurice Maeterlinck - Wisdom and Destiny, & The Wrack of the Storm
“It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.”
Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals