I Quotes
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“It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.”
“It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.”
“It is the mind that sees the glass as half empty or half full. Without the mind, there is no glass.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“It is the mind that shapes the body”
“It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.”
Source: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
“It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.”
“It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.”
“It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.”
Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.”
“It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light”
“It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.”
“It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.”
“It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.”
“It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.”
“It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.”
Source: The Dance
“It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.”
“It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.”
“It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.”
“It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.”
“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
“It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."”
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.”
Source: Writing without Teachers
“It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses.”
“It is the moonbeams of breath cast between us that conduct me towards cloudless hours.”
“It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.”
“It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.”
“It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.”
Source: Ginger-Snaps
“It is the most counterintuitive aspect of Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once w begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.”
“It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.”
“It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.”
“It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.”
“It is the most invincible army known to mankind — the people on the march. To the people ultimate triumph may be delayed but it cannot be denied.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.”
Source: Great Expectations
“It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.”
Source: Great Expectations
“It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace”
“It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.”
“It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is on you, and you are basically choking them gradually like a boa constrictor and once you've got them, the pressure goes on and they have to submit or they are going to stop breathing. It happened to me early in my career, and I panicked, and gave in, I tapped out too early. I learned a lot from that. I learned from it, learned how to do the move better, learned how to avoid it being done to me.”
“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”
“It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search in to the hidden mysteries of God.”
Source: Table talk
“It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.”
“It is the most wicked torture of the modern age—to be completely, violently shattered by someone who technically owes you absolutely nothing!”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted”
“It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.”
“It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.”
Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle
“It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates new life. The dynamics of the universe are dialectical, apparently in a conflict, but occurring within a larger context of unity and wholeness. This is the understanding of the Tantra vision.”
Source: The Art of Sexual Magic
“It is the moving inspiration of our age, the only question worth struggling for: the question of how to lift humanity from poverty and despair.”
“It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we boast of the continual decrease in human participation in technical operations.”