I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.”
“It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.”
“It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.”
“It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.”
“It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.”
“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.”
“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.”
“It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.”
“It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.”
“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”
“It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.”
Source: The Mystery of Providence
“It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.”
“It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.”
“It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.”
“It is the duty of the United Nations, is to make every international border a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“It is the duty of the writer to describe.”
“It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"”
“It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.”
“It is the duty of us, the founders, then, said I, to compel the best natures to attain the knowledge which we pronounced the greatest, and to win to the vision of good, to scale the ascent, and when they have reached the heights and taken an adequate view, we must not allow what is now permitted.
What is that?
That they should linger there, I said, and refuse to go down again among those bondsmen and share their labors and honors, whether they are of less or of greater worth.”
Source: The Allegory of the Cave
“It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.”
Source: The Forerunner
“It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.”
“It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.”
Source: Journey without maps
“It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.”
“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.”
“It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.”
“It is the easiest thing in the world to obey God when He commands us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark.”
“It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.”
Source: The Return of the Native
“It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“It is the effects on the world of successful active germ-line replicators that we see as adaptations.”
Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
“It is the ego's purpose that makes everything seem dis-united and like separate events. The constant purpose is the thread that ties all events together. The script is really a continuous thing, rather than discreet events. I did this next and this happened, then I went there. That is the way it is talked about when the mind believes in sequential time and events. But once we get a sense that there is purpose that ties them all together, that is when the fusion between all the events takes place.”
Source: Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles
“It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.”
“It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.”
“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
“It is the empiric who never fails.”
“It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.”
Source: By the Numbers
“It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“It is the end result that counts.”
“It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”
“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”
“It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.”
“It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.”
“It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.”
Source: A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'
“It is the energy behind my letter, that gave me, my pair of glasses.”
“It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.”
Source: Entering the Tao: Master Ni's Guidance for Self-Cultivation
“It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.”
“It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.”
“It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.”
“It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.”
Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings
“It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.”
Source: The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker