I Quotes
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“It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.”
“It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look great on the outside if you are not healthy on the inside.”
“It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“It is sad to see people do things without putting their soul and heart into it.”
“It is sad to see someone who does not cry. That means they have cried enough to understand how not to cry when they are hit physically and emotionally.”
“It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.”
“It is sad when a man has many dreams but lacks the courage and strength to accomplish not even one.”
“It is sad when teenagers say, “I’d never dare tell my mother that,” or “My father would be shocked if I even asked.”
Source: Children in the Church Today: An Orthodox Perspective
“It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.”
“It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.”
“It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
Source: The Crack-up
“It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.”
“It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.”
“It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.”
“It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.”
“It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.”
“It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.”
Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“It is safe to say that the message spoke of a common shape to all the processes of the world, and insisted there was a unity to all explanations. It confirmed that all phenomena are expressions of a single phenomenon, and while all droplets consider themselves independent, they are nonetheless still ocean through and through.
In that message the great suspicions were vindicated and the old cliches were jettisoned. The hymn of the world was notated and an invitation to join the choir extended. The shape of Being was outlined in all its myriad forms and the whole was expressed in the part.
With the right ears even a lesser creature can hear the song. It is sung constantly, from the heart of each atom and star.
The galaxies hum of shape and form in their essence. That is their secret.
The particles whisper of the nature of proper interactions. That is their game.
And during a storm, in the forest, on the right night, it is no secret that the leaves all sing of God.”
Source: The Fifth Science
“It is safe to say that the Teton Range is as breathtaking as any mountain landscape one could ever see.”
Source: A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip
“It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.”
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.”
“It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.”
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.”
“It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend.”
“It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.”
“It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation”
Source: Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
“It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.”
Source: Spinoza's Critique of Religion
“It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.”
Source: Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
“It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.”
“It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.”
“It is said about women that you can’t live with them and you can’t live without them. Ironically, once you’ve learned to live without them, living with them is a whole lot easier and a lot more fun. Assuming the same applies to men, perhaps it is only misperceived dependence that makes getting along with each other seem so difficult.”
“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”
“It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq had no documented role in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is said that we fought from a moral objection to tyranny - except that we don't seem all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves. Everything is said except the truth: that we rushed into an unnecessary war on a half-baked mission. And that the repercussions of our hubris will shadow us for years.”
“It is said by many people that the power of the human mind is 'unlimited'. But, I do not agree with it because we cannot think beyond what we see around us. It means that the 'limitation' is 'in-built'. Indeed, we can go to space, discover planets or galaxies, but we cannot go beyond all these things. So, the 'limitation' of our thinking-process is natural and normal!”
“It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.”
“It is said give a man a fish, you would feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime. I say, Teach a wo(man) how to culture fish, you will empower the entire country”
“It is said if an organization listens to the complaint of a customer and the problem is fixed, the customer remains a loyal customer and tells approximately seven others about the experience. Conversely, if a person is ignored and the problem not fixed, that customer will not deal with that organization anymore and will tell approximately twenty other people about the negative experience.”
“It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.”
“It is said in sporting circles that great players leave the game a year too early rather than a year too late.”
“It is said in the Upanishads: ‘I am the Universe.’ If you ask a hundred people as to how they find the world, they are all likely to give different answers. For some, the world is beautiful and the people are good, while for others, the world is extremely bad, and the people are treacherous and sinful. Why the same world is different for different people? It is so, because the outer world is the projection of our inner world. Therefore, the only way to improve the world outside is to improve the world within. While we may not have any control over the outside world, we can change our world within and thus change the world outside.”
Source: Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
“It is said it is useless to look for equality in a relationship. Whether you want it or not, one always leads, and the other follows. Maybe we should give matriarchy a chance. But the weight should always be towards one side. As long as we compete for equality, none of us will lead, and none of us will follow.”
Source: The World's Most Frustrated Man
“It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.”
“It is said of the Dalai Lama that when he stops to talk to you, for that moment, he makes you feel that you are the most important thing in his life, you have his full attention.”
Source: Legacy