I Quotes
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“It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.”
“It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.”
“It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
[Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]”
“It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.”
“It is the fragrance of our prayers at dawn, our communion with God, which is the fragrant garden in which he loves to walk in the morning.”
Source: The Divine Prayer Clock
“It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.”
“It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.”
“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”
“It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.”
“It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.”
“It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.”
“It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.”
“It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.”
Source: Art & ardor: essays
“It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience”
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
“It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different, and to be able to Connect the seemingly Unconnected".”
“It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.”
“It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.”
Source: Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical
“It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.”
“It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.”
“It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
Source: Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration
“It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.”
Source: Psychology and religion: West and East
“It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.”
“It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.”
Source: The Revolution was
“It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.”
Source: The natural superiority of women
“It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases... This legislation sets forth the policy of the United States to protect and preserve the inherent right of American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiian people to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religions”
Source: Jimmy Carter
“It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.”
“It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.”
“It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“It is the geese plying the graying skies of autumn in floating V-formations on a rendezvous with southern horizons that gives me the greatest pause. For my life is rarely raised to the calls of life on the wing that beg me to rise up and lay hold of distant horizons in search of a season being birthed out of the one now dying. For to stay here in a season now expired is to die along with it, and despite the fact that I had died many times, I must never forget that I can still fly.”
“It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.”
Source: A weekend with Claude
“It is the genius of life that demands of those who partake in it that they are not only are guardians of what was and is, but what will be.
—Thomas Nō Kannon, The Lady and the Samurai +”
“It is the genius of life that demands of those who partake in it that they are not only the guardians of what was and is, but what will be.
—Thomas Nō Kannon, The Lady and the Samurai +”
Source: The lady and the samurai
“It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.”
“It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.”
“It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.”
“It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.”
“It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.”
“It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.”
Source: Camera in London
“It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.”
“It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.”
“It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.”
“It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.”
Source: The Clicking of Cuthbert
“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
“It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.”
“It is the glory of Boston’s hillside roofs and western windows aflame with sunset; of the flower-fragrant Common and the great dome on the hill and the tangle of gables and chimneys in the violet valley where the many-bridged Charles flows drowsily. These things you saw, Randolph Carter, when your nurse first wheeled you out in the springtime, and they will be the last things you will ever see with eyes of memory and of love.”
“It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.”
Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919