I Quotes
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“It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.”
“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“It is the unknown we fear. The fact that we won't have anyone by our side to help us face whatever it is that generated that fear in the first place. To tell us that it is all right not to be strong and brave and indestructible all the time.”
Source: Guardian of the Auras
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
“It is the unlived life we are starving for, the poem that never got penned, the canvas that sat blank all along. It is the story that remained untold, the flowers we never found in rain.”
“It is the unlived life we are starving for, the poem that never got penned, the canvas that sat blank all along. It is the story that remained untold, the flowers we never found in the rain of pain, that keep us thirsty inside.”
“It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.”
“It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.”
Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.”
“It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”
“It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.”
Source: Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry
“It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.”
“It is the unwritten poems, the unlived life, that holds the seeds of light, and the heart explodes with stars in a burst.”
“It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership for Iraq in the future. There may be some transition period where the international community would have to help the Iraqi people put in place a representative government. But that is the goal, not for the United States, or any other nation, for that matter, who might be in such a coalition, if one is formed, to serve as the leader of the Iraqi nation.”
“It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.”
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”
Source: Moab is My Washpot
“It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.”
“It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.”
Source: The Singing Sands
“It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“It is the value invested in a name over time that makes the name(brand) and not just the name.”
“It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.”
“It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.”
“It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.”
“It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory, challenge the existing order. Art is highly explosive. To be worth its salt it must have in that salt a fair sprinkling of gunpowder.”
Source: Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
“It is the very hypocrisy that lies at the heart of so many men; they want everything their own way, and when I point out the failings in their logic I am told that I am simply not intelligent enough to understand it. They speak their private language of power, and I am not afraid to point out that it is often gibberish.”
Source: Fearsome Creatures
“It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.”
“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
Source: Ghosts
“It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless”
Source: The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master
“It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.”
Source: The history of Henry Milner
“It is the very parts we perceive to be not-so-good that need our love the most. As it is only in love that what is hurting or what has been marginalized can be embraced, felt and transformed.”
Source: Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer
“It is the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine”
“It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.”
Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
“It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.”
“It is the very thing I thought I could never be that the real me has settled into like a puzzle. Who would have thought I could be me?”
“It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.”
Source: Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.”
Source: Howard's End
“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.”
Source: Howard's End
“It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.”
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholars. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy
“It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.”
“It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.”
“It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.”
Source: Life Together
“It is the voracious conversion of every minute that leads to greatness”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as compared to those European countries in which church and state have been united, resulting in opposition to the church by those who disapprove of the government.”
Source: Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
“It is the want that creates the body.”
Source: Sadhanas or Preparations for Higher Life
“It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something”
Source: Some postwar American writers
“It is the way in which the Dark returns, Harrier. I will explain, if you like."
"Oh, no," Harrier said. "I'd much rather not know a thing about what we're facing. Let me get dressed first."
A few minutes later Harrier came back, dressed for the day. He made another cup of hot cordial for Tiercel, refilled the kettle and started the water brewing for tea, and set some dried fruit to soak for griddle-cakes. "Okay. Now. Ruin my day," he invited.”
Source: The Phoenix Endangered
“It is the way it is. But it is not the way it appears to be. Enlightenment.”
“It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what Christ's death accomplished.”
“it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.”
Source: Precious Bane