I Quotes
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“It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.”
Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the “right” to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, “Abolish Capital Punishment,” also carry “Legalize Abortion” another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, “There is no contradiction involved.” They are right: the thesis is “condemn the innocent and free the guilty.”
“It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.”
“It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.”
“It is silent, an anagram for listen.
That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.”
Source: Genevieve
“It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”
“It is silliness to live when to live is torment.”
“It is silly, isn’t it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself.”
“It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea”
“It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.”
“It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.”
“It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.”
“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on Coroners’ death certificates as the cause of death -- which arouses such anger, an anger that is not confined to patients in the UK but encompasses medical scientists in other countries whose decision-makers have come under Wessely’s thrall.”
“It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.”
Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED
“It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.”
Source: Die a Little
“It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.”
Source: On Conducting
“It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future”
“It is simple, therefore it is beautiful”
“It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.”
“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“It is simply a confession that with all that I've seen in the last few years, all the events I've been invited to, and all the people whom I've met, I am less and less impressed by "impressive" things or people who are presented as having things figured out. I am impressed by people who are honest and kind. I am inspired by moments of vulnerability, moments of confession and compassion, moments where someone makes it clear that they are a person in need of other people and someone else makes it clear that the first person is not alone.”
“It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.”
“It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works
“It is simply an error, though no doubt an attractive and inspiring one, to suppose that there is one evil — capitalism, say, or colonialism — the destruction of which would make everything in the garden lovely.”
Source: Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
“It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always - not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.”
“It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.”
“It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“it is simply impossible for any white woman to be genuinely "not okay with racism" when we as a society have not yet reckoned with the fact that this model of strategic White Womanhood that has been honed and entrenched by centuries of colonialism is itself a racist concept.”
“It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.”
“It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.”
“It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.”
“It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.”
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
“It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.”
“It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and understands the varying circumstances and complexities of our lives.”
“It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.”
“It is simply not possible for a female poet to claim, like Whitman, that she intends to ‘go by the bank of the wood and become undisguised and naked’ without immediately becoming vulnerable to the male gaze. It is, in fact, very difficult for female poets to speak of their embodied experience without being misread as positioning themselves as erotic objects.”
“It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.”
Source: Transformation of War
“It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.”
“It is simply service that measures success.”
Source: George Washington Carver: In His Own Words
“It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.”
“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”
“It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“It is simply that we treat Japanese history, the history of the Japanese people and its unique culture with greater respect and interest. This generates enormous interest in Russia!”
“It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.”
“It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.”
“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.”
Source: Fair Play: A Novel
“It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.”
“It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.”