I Quotes
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“It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't be a taboo.”
“It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.”
“It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.”
Source: This Business of Living
“It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.”
“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
“It is style that makes us believe in a thing - nothing but style. Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
“It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their mind on public issues. Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy.”
“It is success that colours all in life,
Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.”
“It is such a blessing that we can find endless support through our friends and family.”
“It is such a comfort to drop the tangles of life into God's hands and leave them there.”
“It is such a comfort to nestle up to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. He is such a grand tree. He has an understanding soul. After I talked with him and listened unto his voice, I slipped down out of his arms.”
“It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.”
“It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.”
“It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.”
“It is such a grand word, soul. Like god, like time, like space, and when she's tried to picture it, she conjures images of lightning or sunbeams through dust, of storms in the shapes of human forms, of vast and edgeless white.
The truth is so much smaller.”
“It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.”
“It is such a hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, bt the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.”
Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.”
Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“It is such a pathetic illusion for priests to think that they will preserve anything by staying under the radar in not learning, defending and promoting the Message of Fatima in all its fullness to the extent that they are able. If we don't stand up and act on the truth of the Fatima Message very quickly, we are all going to lose our necks, beyond our positions and salaries and insurance policies!”
Source: Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul
“It is such a relief to be told the truth.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.”
“It is such a shame that being evil , It Is fashion these days.
Unfortunately that doesn't change the fact that whatever you sow. You shall reap. Either you are using fake or real account to spew hate and being vile. Creating fake narratives that doesn't exist or lying about something or someone. Spreading rumors. Speaking bad about others. Sharing their personal Information, downfall, secrets and struggles. It is either you are expressing yourself or you are doing this for clout, because you want to Increase your fanbase or number of followers or you want attention. You want engagement. You want to look cool to others. You want to trend. Whatever reason it maybe . Remember you shall reap, whatever you are sow.
Galatians 6:3 - 7”
“It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.”
“It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.”
“It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.”
“It is such a strange fact that memories of people are more loyal and more faithful than the people themselves! When a person dies or leaves us, his memories yet stay with us!”
“It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.”
Source: The End of Imagination
“It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.”
“It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.”
“It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.”
Source: The Pull of the Moon: A Novel
“It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.”
“It is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.”
“It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba "master". Where intimate Source radiates among non-Christians then surely we must be dealing with the "other sheep" manifesting the cosmic Christ.”
“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”
Source: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ – Complete Collection: 16 Novels in One Premium Edition (Fantasy Classics Series): The most Beloved Children’s Books about the Adventures in the Magical Land of Oz
“It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.”
Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.”
“It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly and to concentrate your strength to capture him. There is no more to it than this. He who lacks foresight and underestimates his enemy will surely be captured by him.”
“it is sufficient to say, that a chorus of work, the whole of my past life - but, as if recalled by an act of memory, but as if present and incarnated in the music: no longer painful to dwell upon: but the detail of it's incidents removed, or blended in some hazy abstraction; and its passions exalted, spiritualized, and sublimed. All this was to be had for five shillings.”
Source: The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
“It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.”
“It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.”
Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy: By John Bright. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers. In 2 Volumes
“It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition, especially from the unlearned among the Christians, who thought that it savoured of Polytheism , that it was introduced by those who had had a philosophical education, and was by degrees adopted by others, on account of its covering the great offence of the cross , by exalting the personal dignity of our Saviour.”
Source: A History of the Corruptions of Christianity
“It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.”
“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.”
“It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.”
“It is summer everywhere, except war.
War, where it used to be home,
and now, war by government, here.”
Source: A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman
“It is summer, let mind dances like the waves with the music of ocean breeze.”