I Quotes
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“It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.”
“It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes.”
Source: The Wicked King
“It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who proceeded him.”
“It is said, “your Net-worth is about your Networks, your networks are your contacts, your contacts are your contracts.”
“It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.”
Source: The Magicians' Guild: The Black Magician Trilogy
“It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.”
“It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.”
“It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.”
“It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.”
Source: The City of God
“It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.”
Source: The Summing Up
“It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship.”
Source: The Great Controversy: Annotated
“It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin.”
“It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.”
Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated
“It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.”
“It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.”
“It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.”
Source: Paper Towns
“It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.”
“It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.”
Source: Not Under Forty
“It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God”
“It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.”
“It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.”
Source: On the Origin of Species: the Evolution
“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.”
Source: In Defense of Elitism
“It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.”
“It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent”
“It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.”
“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”
Source: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979
“It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology are teaching us how to work with the checks and balances of nature, and encouraging a new, rational, limited-input, environmentally sound means of vineyard management that offers a third way between the ideologically driven approach of Biodynamics and conventional chemical-based agricultural systems.”
Source: The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass
“It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.”
“It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“It is scripture alone, not conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the definition of what we should believe. The authority of the scripture means that all the words in scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.”
“It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.”
“It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."”
“It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.”
“It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it”
“It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.”
Source: The Turquoise
“It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.”
“It is seldom possible to respect someone about whom you know everything.”
“It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.”
“It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.”
“It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.”
“It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.”
“It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.”
Source: Selection, Adapted to the Seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year: From the Parochial & Plain Sermons
“It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.”
Source: Hume: Political Writings
“It is self-indulgent to give into Despair--it's easy. Hope, now that takes strength--it takes practice and determination to believe in a better outcome. Don't you dare give into dread. Don't you dare give up!”
Source: A Witch's Guide to Burning
“It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.”