I Quotes
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“It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.”
“It is the constant changing character
of our life together that I embrace.
We have come a long way; knowing
each other now in ways
that we did not before.”
Source: Senses
“It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.”
“It is the constant - or inconstant - change, the infinite variety in fly fishing that binds us fast. It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year. -
Theodore Gordon [1914]”
“It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'”
“It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.”
“It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.”
“It is the conversion of time that divides people into class”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is the conversion of time that produces results and products.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is the conversion of time that turns raw talents into world acclaimed celebrities”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is the conversion of your time that differentiates you from the crowd not your faith in God”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality.”
Source: America
“It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.”
“It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.”
“It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.”
“It is the coward who must legitimize their greed by making it appear heroic.”
“It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.”
Source: The Works of Shakespere
“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”
Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation
“It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.”
“It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.”
“It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.”
“It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.”
Source: Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper
“It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.”
Source: The cross of the Son of God
“It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.”
“It is the cruelest torment imaginable, not only to endure all the wrong and its results that the rest of us deal with, but to do so while knowing how right you have made it to be. Jesus' suffering was, for Him, the most backward and wrong experience imaginable.”
Source: Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again
“It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.”
“It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.”
“It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.”
“It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.”
“It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.”
“It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.”
Source: A Voice from the South
“It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Dean Howells: 27 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including Plays, Poems, Travel Sketches, Historical Works & Autobiography (Illustrated): Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, The Flight of Pony Baker, Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Imaginary Interviews, A Boy's Town, Years of My Youth…
“It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.”
“It is the curse to search you in every person I meet, the curse with no cure”
“It is the custom for a master to do this for the student, but not the other way around," Yadeen said when he handed a package to Arram. "It is assumed the student needs every nit he can find, if not for now, when he has a stipend, then later, when he is on his own.”
Source: Tempests and Slaughter
“It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.”
“It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.”
“It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.”
“It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.”
Source: The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
“It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things.
[Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]”
“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon. The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; and, in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song. We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger; drawing forth a dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and, just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard: and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle: where a grey-headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.
Such changes appear absurd; but they are not so unnatural as they would seem at first sight. The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on; which makes a vast difference. The actors in the mimic life of the theatre, are blind to violent transitions and abrupt impulses of passion or feeling, which, presented before the eyes of mere spectators, are at once condemned as outrageous and preposterous.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“It is the custom to sneer at mongrels and to feel shame in confessing the ownership of one of them. And there could not be a worse mistake. The mongrel has more cleverness, more stamina, and sometimes more beauty than any thoroughbred. The best type of mongrel is often the very best dog alive.
Instead of being ashamed of owning one, be ashamed that you have not brought out his million fine traits of smartness and stanchness and general worth-whileness. Those traits are all there if you’ll both to look for them.”
Source: My Friend the Dog
“It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.”
“It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.”
“It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.”
“It is the darkness of night that gives glory to the moon; while appreciating a beauty, don't forget to appreciate the thing that brings out that beauty! If there is no night, who looks at the moon?”