I Quotes
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“It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.”
“It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.”
Source: Fact and Fiction
“It is the things that happen then how you react to them that gives life its meaning.”
Source: Life's a Revelation
“It is the things we can't afford to lose that make us fight until we win."
~ Shrouded in Pompei”
“It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.”
Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“It is the thinness of a single pane of glass that protects the life in the greenhouse from the cold of the winter. And we would be wise to remember that so many of the things that protect us are just as fragile.”
“It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.”
Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
“It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can become unpopular but essentially is not at all, inasmuch as he does not mean much by the very odd things he says (alas, and this is a popular art!). Socrates, on the other hand, was the most unpopular in Greece because he said the same thing as the simplest person but meant infinitely much by it. To be able to stick to one thing, to stick to it with ethical passion and undauntedness of spirit, to see the intrinsic duplexity of this one thought with the same impartiality, and at one and the same time to see the most profound earnestness and the greatest jest, the deepest tragedy and highest comedy―this is unpopular in any age for anyone who has not realized that immediacy is over. But neither can what is essentially unpopular be learned by rote. More on that later.”
Source: Stages on Life's Way
“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in terms of happiness, we can see it like this: To be happy you must quite literally "lose yourself". You must lose yourself in some pursuit; you need to forget your own happiness and find other goals and projects, other objects of concern that might include the welfare of some other people, or the cure of the disease, or simply in the variety of everyday activities with their little successes and setbacks.”
Source: Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
“It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.”
Source: Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive
“It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.”
Source: The Complete Works of J. M. Synge
“It is the time that delivers greatness to people .”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is the time that delivers greatness to people. Therefore if you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is the time to go to your destination and stop wandering and stopping at the shelter you should not visit; because it is a waste of time.”
Source: A Complete Guide to Practical Numerology
“It is the time to move ahead and bring the change”
“It is the time to tremendous awakening toward “inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.”
Source: Digital Master
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“It is the top of the tree that first sees danger in the forest from afar; in the life of human beings, the first thing that sees danger from afar is the top of the mind, which is wisdom!”
“It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.”
“It is the toughest time but the best.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone
“It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.”
Source: Art and reality: ways of the creative process
“It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.”
“It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.”
Source: W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings
“It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.”
Source: Retrospectives and Conclusions
“It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.”
“It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.”
Source: Socrates
“It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming
“It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.”
Source: A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity. Complete ed
“It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.”
“It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works
“It is the truth, a force of nature that expresses itself through me—I am only a channel—I can imagine in many instances where I would become sinister to you.
For instance, if life had led you to take up an artificial attitude, then you wouldn't be able to stand me, because I am a natural being.
By my very presence I crystallize; I am a ferment.
The unconscious of people who live in an artificial manner senses me as a danger.
Everything about me irritates them, my way of speaking, my way of laughing.
They sense nature.”
“It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.”
“It is the twenty-third of June nineteen seventy-five, and it is eight o'clock in the evening. Seated at his jigsaw puzzle, Bartlebooth has just died.”
Source: Life: A User's Manual
“It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.”
“It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.”
“It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.”
“It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”
Source: Notes on a Cellar-Book
“It is the uncertainty of life that fills life with magnificence and beauty.”
“It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate”
“It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.”
“It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.”
“It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.”
Source: Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955
“It is the uninformed that drive around in radio frequency (RF) radiation filled cars.”
“It is the uninformed that willfully give their children wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation toys.”
“It is the uninformed that willfully put a cellphone next to their brains.”
“It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.”