I Quotes
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“It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.”
“It is the living who frighten me,’ I said. ‘There is nothing to fear from the dead.”
“It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.”
“It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.”
“It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth”
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.”
“It is the long still moment of dreamy suspended passion before the spinning clutching descent.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
“It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion”
“It is the longing of every human being to wish for love.”
“It is the longing to know the unknown that opens the spiritual dimension in our depths...”
“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”
“It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.”
Source: The Story of a Bad Boy
“It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.”
“It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.”
Source: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail
“It is the lot of man but once to die.”
Source: Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man
“It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.”
Source: The pilgrimage of eternity: being an English translation of Muhammad Iqbal's Javid nama by Shaikh Mahmud Ahmad. With a foreword by S. A. Rahman
“It is the lot of man to suffer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“It is "the love of Christ" which "constraineth us" "to live not unto ourselves, but unto Him that died for us, and rose again.”
“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”
“It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.”
Source: Letters From Burma:
“It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.”
“It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.”
“It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.”
Source: Love is not what you think
“It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.”
“It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.”
Source: Can't and Won't
“It is the lumps and trials
That tell us whether we shall be known
And whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.”
Source: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
“It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.”
“It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.”
“It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.”
Source: High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
“It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.”
“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.”
“It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.”
“It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.”
Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)
“It is the man or woman of wisdom who will recognize that to embrace the consequences of our choices, and to own the outcome of our behaviors is the single path to freedom, and that any other path will always, always, lead to enslavement.”
“It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.”
“It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.”
Source: The Method of the Divine Government
“It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.”
“It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”
“It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.”
Source: Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln
“It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.”
“It is the man without vision who sees only an ending. Yet, it is the man of faith who sees an ending as the very place from which a thousand beginnings will be birthed.”
“It is the manner of (Cadel) Evan's triumph that has particularly endeared him to his countrymen and women... Australians place a premium on persistence in adversity... His win in the year's tour was much more than an exhibition of pure sporting talent; it was a display of grit that will long be treasured by all who saw it.”
“It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.”
“It is the mark of a cude disposition to spend most of one's time on bodily functions such as exercise, eating, drinking, defecating and copulating. These are the things to be done just incidentally. All your attention should be on your mind.”
Source: How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
“It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.”
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides