I Quotes
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“It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.”
“It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.”
Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.”
Source: Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
“It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.”
Source: The Histories
“It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.”
Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910
“It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses.”
“It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano; but it is even much more spectacular to watch the rise of a newly exploding revolutionary idea!”
“It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.”
“It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.”
Source: The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda
“It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.”
“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
“It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!”
“It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”
“It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.”
Source: Knowing God Through the Year
“It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.”
“It is starting to become established science that eating corporate USA wheat may make you fat, sickly and possibly crazy.”
“It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“It is stated that the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) was taken up into heaven (while he was still alive) and saw angels dwelling on various heavenly levels performing specific movements. This should be a profound sign of the spiritual significance and importance of the body and its motions. It is one indication of the sacredness of the body and the truly profound meaning of certain motions and gestures of that body.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.”
“It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.”
“It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.”
“It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed ‘station’ in life. It’s what keeps the poor downtrodden.”
Source: Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich
“It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.”
Source: Main Street, and Other Poems
“It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“It is still a matter of amazement to me that what we know before we read any sentence prepares us to recognize even the visual shapes of the individual words faster and to understand their meanings more rapidly and more precisely in any new context.”
Source: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
“It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.”
“It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.”
“It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.”
“It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.”
Source: The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems
“It is still belived that SIZE does matter but directly proportional Size does not necessarily produce MATTER.”
“It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.”
“It is still color, it is not yet light.”
“It is still difficult for many to believe that a deception of such magnitude is possible. Deceptions and false declarations have ben the standard in the politics of the powerful, and certainly are in Israel's policy toward the Palestinians from the start.”
Source: Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948
“It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.”
“It is still gossip even if everything that is said is true.”
“It is still harder all around for women to get funding in business and film. There are only a very small group of female unicorns who have the power to tell stories on film. We need to have the courage to push back... all the effort is the work of bravery.”
“It is still important that every project I do I do something real, that feels true to me.”
“It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.”
Source: A fanfare for Prometheus
“It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.”
“It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.”
“it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat”
Source: Natural Beauty
“It is still my dream to own a little flower shop.”
“It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges under cars, or stiff glass bottle still in hand, hair soft on greasy pillows, still it is news she cannot follow love (his burning footsteps in blue crystal snow) & still come out all right.”
“It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.”
“It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.”
Source: A Night of Serious Drinking
“It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.”
Source: THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF DAVID HUME.
“It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.”
Source: Conditioned Reflexes