I Quotes
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“It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.”
“It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.”
Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.”
“It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.”
“It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.”
“It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.”
“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.”
“It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.”
Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.”
“It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.”
Source: On Intelligence
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
Source: Enjoyment of Laughter
“It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.”
“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
“It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.”
Source: Killer on Campus
“It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.”
“It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.”
Source: Mother Earth Bulletin
“It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.”
Source: Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow
“It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”
“It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.”
“It is the acme of life to understand life.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.”
“It is the act of a coward to wish for death.”
“It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .”
“It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.”
Source: Enchiridion
“It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.”
“It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.”
“It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
“It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.”
“It is the adventure and uncertainties of the journey that makes life so beautiful and interesting.”
“It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.”
“It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.”
“It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.”
Source: A treatise on political economy
“It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position”
“It is the alienated insight into the actual objectification of man and into the actual appropriation of his objective nature by the destruction of the alienated character of the objective world, by the transcendence of the objective world in its alienated existence, just as atheism which transcends God is the emergence of theoretical humanism, and communism which transcends private property is the vindication of actual human life as man's property, the emergence of practical humanism. Or, atheism is humanism mediated through itself by the transcendence of religion, and communism is humanism mediated through itself by the transcendence of private property. Only through the transcendence of this mediation--which is, however, a necessary presupposition--emerges positive humanism, humanism emerging positively from itself.”
Source: Selected Writings
“It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.”
“It is the ‘American Way’ to keep their masses in the dark.”
“It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.”
“It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves.”
Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
“It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.”
“It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.”
Source: 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
“It is the apes who control the mind of man.”
“It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop”
Source: Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell
“It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.”