I Quotes
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“It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love—then you are human.”
“It is the murky blot on their sun of happiness.”
Source: Pillars of Society
“It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.”
Source: The Jungle - Literary Touchstone Edition
“It is the Muslim community that has the best chance of stopping and checking and pushing back on people who are trying to politicize their own faith. So this attack on Islam is an attack on a great faith. It undermines the people who are trying to rescue this faith from these horrible people. It endangers every human being on earth because it accelerates the radicalization of some and emboldens the worst elements of that faith. So this fight is a fight I think that we have to take on.”
“It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as God's khulifa, and hence only in proper commitment to the vision of Islam, may man act responsibly in the totality of space-time.”
“It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.”
Source: 1769-1793
“It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.”
Source: William Baziotes: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1952-1961 : 7 March-31 March, 1984
“It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.”
Source: The religious thought in Islam
“It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.”
“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman, and so, forces retreat, humility, and awe, in the presence of spaces beyond our will.”
Source: Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World
“It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.”
Source: The Golem
“It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.”
Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting
“It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.”
“It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.”
“It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master
“It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!”
Source: Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art
“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.”
Source: American Mercury
“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.”
“It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns.”
Source: White Noise
“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.”
Source: Travels with Charley
“It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.”
“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
“It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.”
Source: Luther's works: Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 7, 1 Corinthians 15 ; lectures on Timothy / Hilton C. Oswald, editor
“It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.”
“It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.”
“It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.”
Source: Barthes: Selected Writings
“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.”
Source: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
“It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.”
“It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.”
Source: Lirael
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
“It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.”
“It is the nature of human beings not to be able to leave nature alone.”
Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners
“It is the nature of human beings to want, to desire.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.”
“It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.”
Source: Sermons on Important Doctrinal Subjects
“It is the nature of life,
the world, that nothing
tangible,
nothing holding us up and leading us forward in this dance
can be counted on.”
“It is the nature of love that makes us see our loved one in their uniqueness and individuality.”
Source: Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“It is the nature of love to be enterprising.”
Source: Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God
“It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.”
“It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.”
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”
“It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.”
“It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.”
Source: Killosophy
“It is the nature of reactionary movements to claim that their power is negligible until it is absolute. It is the nature of right-wing American Christianity to nurture a martyrdom that was never theirs, and never will be theirs, and use its sentiments to feed their animus.”
Source: Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
“It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.”
“it is the nature of stars to cross”
Source: The John Green Collection
“It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.”