I Quotes
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“It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.”
“It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.”
“It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.”
“It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.”
“It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.”
“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.”
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
“It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments”
Source: Spurgeon's Sermons: Being Twelve of the Most Memorable Sermons Ever Delivered
“It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire”
Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.”
“It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.”
Source: Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.”
Source: The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles
“It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.”
“It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.”
Source: The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.”
“It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.”
“It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.”
“It is the hardest thing in the world to let go of a dead dream," Eanrin said, his voice more serious than Alistair had ever before heard it. "Many people cling to their dreams and watch them die again and again rather than release them entirely.”
Source: Dragonwitch
“It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.”
Source: Sorcerer and Apprentice
“It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.”
“It is the hardship that awakens hidden talents”
“It is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!”
“It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.”
“It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“It is the heart that defines the beauty of a person, not the body or the brain.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.”
“It is the heart that is important.”
“It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.”
“It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.”
“It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature.”
Source: The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul
“It is the heart which inspires eloquence.”
“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. Without this accomplishment, the natural expectation and desire of such a state, were but a fallacy in nature; unsatisfied considerators would quarrel the justice of their constitutions, and rest content that Adam had fallen lower; whereby, by knowing no other original, and deeper ignorance of themselves, they might have enjoyed the happiness of inferior creatures, who in tranquillity possess their constitutions, as having not the apprehension to deplore their own natures, and, being framed below the circumference of these hopes, or cognition of better being, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment: but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments.”
Source: Urne Burial
“It is the height of human happiness to have somebody to love. Our agony is that we have all the light and the paint but no canvas to put the art of our hearts on.”
“It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.”
“It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.”
“It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.”
“It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2
“It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.”
Source: Can You Forgive Her? (Unabridged): Victorian Classic from the prolific English novelist, known for Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Palliser Novels, The Prime Minister, The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne and Phineas Finn…
“It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.”
“It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.”
“It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.”
“It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.”
Source: Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)
“It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.”
“It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.”
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.”