I Quotes
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“It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.”
“It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.”
“It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.”
“It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.”
“It is sometimes dangerous to have too much merit.”
Source: The Love Letters Of Abelard And Heloise: Translated From The Original Latin And Now Reprinted From The Edition Of 1722: Together With A Brief Account Of Their Lives And Work By Ralph Seymour
“It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.”
“It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.”
“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
Source: Morality for Beautiful Girls
“It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.”
“It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.”
“It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.”
“It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.”
“It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.”
“It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.”
“It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity of the virtues we have been taught. But I believe we must reckon with character in the end, for it is as potent a force in world conflict as it is in our own domestic affairs. It strikes the last blow in any battle.”
“It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.”
“It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.”
“It is sometimes hard to know what Sarah Palin means, just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what she is talking about.”
“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
Source: The substance of man
“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”
“It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.”
“It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.”
Source: Mr. Sammler's Planet
“It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.”
Source: Throwing Shadows
“It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf”
“It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.”
“It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.”
Source: Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel
“It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right”
“It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress. It is certainly true, and I think this is an abiding and not a regrettable characteristic of the discipline, that philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning: a thing which it is not at all easy to do.”
Source: The Sovereignty of Good
“It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!”
“It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it”
“It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was that the distinction between truth and other motivations to believe tended to break down. Upon hearing a purported piece of information, the reaction was not 'Is this true?' but 'Why is this person saying this? - What machinations or manipulations are going on here?' The question of truth did not, as it were, have the social space in which it could breath.”
“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.”
“It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.”
“It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also stated that we should never believe an observation until it is confirmed by a theory.”
Source: Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation
“It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments.”
“It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.”
“It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.”
Source: I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
“It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.”
“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.”
Source: The substance of man
“It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.”
“It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet to be aware of the fact, as we are, that institutions of higher learning... have been given conceded preferences to the children of alumni.”
“It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.”
“It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.”
“It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.”
“It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.”