I Quotes
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“It is the sound of the crowd that can be heard in the second, crescendoing rush of the orchestra that follows the final verse, rising from a hum to a gasp to a shout... fusing at last to a shriek (its similarity to the sound of the crowds at Beatle concerts is surely no accident). The onrushing sound of the orchestra at the end of "A Day in the Life" has transcended more than the conventions of Sgt. Pepper's Band. It is the nightmare resolution of the Beatles' show within a show. It is the sound in the eras of the high-wire artist as the ground rushes up from below. There is a blinding flash of silence, then the stunning impact of a tremendous E major piano chord that hangs in the air for a small eternity, slowly fading away, a forty-second meditation on finality that leaves each member if the audience listening with a new kind of attention and awareness to the sound of nothing at all.”
Source: Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
“It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”
“It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.”
“It is the special province of music to move the heart.”
“It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.”
“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”
“It is the spectators who make the pictures.”
“It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.”
“It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
Source: Temptation and Sin
“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.”
Source: The Law and the Future
“It is the spirit of a person that hangs above him like a star in the sky.”
“It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.”
“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”
“It is the spirit of the quest which helps”
Source: One hundred poems of Kabir
“It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.”
Source: The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...
“It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.”
“It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.”
“It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!”
“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
“It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.”
Source: Howards End
“It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.”
“It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.”
“It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.”
Source: My Autobiography: With
“It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.”
Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers
“It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.”
“It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.”
Source: The March Family Trilogy
“It is the stillest words that bring the storm.”
Source: Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are
“It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.”
“It is the storm that I watch so that it will not catch me unawares, when I should be watching God in the storm so that He can catch me in the waves.”
“It is the storm that propels a ship to its destination.”
“It is the story of people who found each other at the right moment in their lives and performed magic. (v)”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?”
Source: The Postmistress
“It is the story that makes the difference. It is the story that hid my humanity from me, the story the mammoth hunters told about bashing, thrusting, raping, killing, about the Hero. The wonderful, poisonous story of Botulism. The killer story. It sometimes seems that that story is approaching its end. Lest there be no more telling of stories at all, some of us out here in the wild oats, amid the alien corn, think we’d better start telling another one, which maybe people can go on with when the old one’s finished. Maybe. The trouble is, we’ve all let ourselves become part of the killer story, and so we may get finished along with it. Hence it is with a certain feeling of urgency that I seek the nature, subject, words of the other story, the untold one, the
life story.”
Source: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
“It is the story that matters, not just the ending.”
“It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.”
“It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”
“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”
“It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”
Source: Conversations with Graham Greene
“It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.”
Source: The Boy Detective Fails
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
“It is the strength of any emotion, not necessarily its pleasantness, that makes a place important.”
“It is the strength of the mother that is going to change the way the world is. It's the compassion, the love, the very open spirited mother and woman that will move us forward in this new century. It's no doubt.”
“It is the stress that holds the structure up.”
“It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.”
Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944
“It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.”
“It is the stuff of fiction that a single conversation can change the course of a life; that we will return to it again and again, wishing to undo it. Even if we could, so much would remain. There are many ways of hurting, without words. It's silence that shapes us.”
Source: Walking on the Ceiling
“It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world”
“It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.”