I Quotes
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“It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.”
“It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.”
Source: The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean
“It is the way of the world that good people try to do the right thing for the wrong people's wrong reasons.”
Source: Blackwing
“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes
“It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.”
“It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.”
“It is the way that it weighs on the human spirit that leads many to self-destruct. I could not help but to connect the pain that they were experiencing to my own.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.”
“It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.”
Source: Romola
“It is the way you feel that is your point of attraction.”
“It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.”
“It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.”
“It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.”
“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”
Source: Correspondence: 1676-1687
“it is the weird fate of the unrequited love that even the physical possession of the loved one, wouldn’t lead to an emotional union”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.”
“It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.”
Source: A Dying Colonialism
“It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.”
“It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.”
“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.”
Source: The Guermantes Way
“It is the wilderness in
the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a
stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one
cannot touch others.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?”
Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757
“It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ. It is His will that we reach out for our inheritance, that we answer His call to be His sons. We are born men without our consent, but the consent to be sons of God has to be elicited by our own free will.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition
“It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition
“It is the Will of Heaven, that the two Countries should be sundered forever. It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still more wasting and Distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the Case, it will have this good Effect, at least: it will inspire Us with many Virtues, which We have not, and correct many Errors, and Vices, which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroy Us. – The Furnace of Affliction produces Refinement, in States as well as Individuals…. But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.”
“It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.”
Source: Prayer
“It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.”
“It is the will of the Supreme Power to allow us the access of the infinite, based on the level of awareness we have of our true identity.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.”
“It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.”
“It is the winners who write history - their way.”
Source: The Gnostic Gospels
“It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.”
“It is the wise man who can thoroughly examine and entertain a thought without feeling required to act on it.”
“It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“it is the wish that makes u cry”
“It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.”
“It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.”
“It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.”
“It is the woman who controls the whole house...it's her job, that's what she's supposed to do...We have to change this idea that women are not only supposed to work in the house...but she also has the ability to go outside and do business, to be a doctor, to be a teacher, to be an engineer, she should be allowed to have any job she likes. She should be treated equally, as men are.”
“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.”
“It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.”
“It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.”
Source: SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS
“It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.”