I Quotes
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“It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.”
“It is the one who accepts commitment who is strong. The true commitment is the artistic one. This is why artists are so often attacked. They are attacked for their morals, for their ideas – even for their work. Yet their essence – their commitment – is the secret which is unassailable. The true artist knows that creativity is its own reward. Ordinary people fear commitment, you see. Ordinary people fear creativity. They know that if they allow that seething cauldron of yellow liquid to boil over within themselves, then their whole lives will be changed. People fear change. People do not wish to be creative and artistic in any real sense. They wish to decorate, perhaps, and to make things around themselves pleasant – but this has little to do with creativity. … All spiritual paths should be creative. Creativity is involved with sacrifice. That stew of yellow liquid which boils in everyone is a sacrificial broth …”
“It is the one who has never cried who is more prone to mental illness.”
Source: SO MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS OWN IMAGE: The Science of Happiness
“It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.”
“It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.”
“It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.”
“It is the only way I can express in words my clear and definite perception that one thing is quite distinct from another; that there is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs. It is the man who talks about “a law” that he has never seen who is the mystic. Nay, the ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. He has so often seen birds lay and lay eggs that he feels as if there must be some dreamy, tender connection between the two ideas, whereas there is none. A forlorn lover might be unable to dissociate the moon from lost love; so the materialist is unable to dissociate the moon from the tide. In both cases there is no connection, except that one has seen them together. A sentimentalist might shed tears at the smell of apple-blossom, because, by a dark association of his own, it reminded him of his boyhood. So the materialist professor (though he conceals his tears) is yet a sentimentalist, because, by a dark association of his own, apple-blossoms remind him of apples. But the cool rationalist from fairyland does not see why, in the abstract, the apple tree should not grow crimson tulips; it sometimes does in his country.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.”
“It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”
Source: Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.”
“it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.”
“It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.”
“It is the others that are sick. They are sick who gloat over news of victories and see conquered miles of territory rise resplendent above mounds of corpses. They are sick who stretch a wall of flags between themselves and their humanity so as not to know what crimes are being committed against their brothers in the beyond that they call "the front." Every man is sick who still can think, talk, discuss, sleep, knowing that other men holding their own entrails in their hands are crawling like half-crushed worms across the furrows in the fields and before they reach the stations for the wounded are dying off like animals, while somewhere, far away, a woman with passionate longing is dreaming beside an empty bed. All those are sick who can fail to hear the moaning, the gnashing of teeth, the howling, the crashing and bursting, the wailing and cursing and agonizing in death, because the murmur of everyday affairs is around them or the blissful silence of night.”
Source: MEN IN WAR
“It is the outside actors who challenge assumptions and ask new questions that beat incumbents in imagining and innovating on what might come next.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“It is the pain in the heart that brings the most beautiful smile on the face.”
“It is the pain of being in the world, where so much that is fair passes into death and forgetfulness. But if we are to know joy, we must embrace that pain. You cannot have one without the other."
Maerad nodded, her face downcast. Sometimes, it seemed to her, the pain far outweighed the joy.”
Source: The Riddle
“It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.”
“It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“It is the Paraclete Spirit, the "Comforter", who grants us the courage to take to the streets of the world, bringing the Gospel! The Holy Spirit makes us look to the horizon and drive us to the very outskirts of existence in order to proclaim life in Jesus Christ. Let us ask ourselves: do we tend to stay closed in on ourselves, on our group, or do we let the Holy Spirit open us to mission?”
“It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.”
Source: Culture and Restraint
“It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.”
Source: Culture and Restraint
“It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.”
“It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ.”
“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.”
Source: Ethics
“It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.”
Source: Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments
“It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.”
Source: The Essays of Montaigne
“It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.”
“It is the passion for your purpose that will imbue you with courage. It will make you feel supported, even if you are alone.”
Source: Make your contribution count for you, me , we: An evolutionary journey inspired by the wisdom of pioneering African women
“It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.”
“It is the passions that do and undo everything.”
“It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.”
“It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.”
“It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.”
“It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.”
“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives”
Source: Novum Organum
“It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.”
Source: Rural Hours
“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”
“It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.”
Source: The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”
“It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.”
Source: Les miserables
“It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.”
“It is the people that are angry at the status quo that makes a decision to bring change.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.”
“It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is the people who are displeased with injustice that can be a channel for social justice.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.”
Source: Novels and Stories
“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance