I Quotes
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“It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.”
“It is too bad that men cannot be trusted unless they are watched.”
Source: Dracula
“It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.”
Source: Indians in Pakistan
“It is too dangerous to meddle in the marriage of princes,' he muttered as he withdrew. Arundel made a joke at his expense, saying 'He lost his post as Chancellor that day, for the Queen had usurped it,' which drew wry laughter from the deputation.”
Source: The Children of Henry VIII
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.”
“It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.”
Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.”
“It is too easy, then, as someone who’s felt rejected, let down, even made fun of by church people, to simply refuse to love them. It’s too easy to live my life in reaction to them. Yes, I can easily craft a false narrative about how awful others are and how much better than them I am, but it excuses me from the hard work of forgiveness and patience.”
Source: Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something
“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But it can be navigated if not always stomached.”
“It is too easy to kiss me at night. Would you love me in the morning light?”
Source: An Abundance of Apricots
“It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.”
“It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.”
Source: Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
“It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.”
Source: Suicide
“It is too heavy a day for bloodshed.”
Source: Tale of Tales – Part I: A Strange Bunch
“It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way.”
“It is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.”
Source: a tale of two cities
“It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.”
“It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.”
“It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
“It is too late only with the signature of death. With this clarity, the responsibility for satisfaction can arrive at any moment.”
“It is too late."
The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be."
He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“It is too late to look after me when I have already fallen over the cliff.”
“It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.”
Source: R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry
“It is too late, now I wish I could live.”
“It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.”
Source: John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers
“It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?”
“It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.”
“it is too much to bear
knowing you this way
I must sing to the birds
the trees understand”
Source: Just Breathe
“It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.”
“It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.”
Source: Seven Servants: Four Works
“It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.”
“It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.”
“It is too often the case,' Crook said, "that border news-papers disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians, which are copied in papers of high
character and wide circulation, in other parts of the country, while the Indians' side of the case is rarely ever heard. In this way the people at large get false ideas with reference to the matter. Then when the outbreak does come public attention is
turned to the Indians, their crimes and atrocities are alone condemned, while the persons whose injustice has driven them to this course escape scot-free and are the loudest in their denunciations. No one knows this fact better than the Indian, therefore
he is excusable in seeing no justice in a government which only punishes him, while it allows the white man to plunder him as he pleases.”
Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“It is too often the case,” Crook said, “that border newspapers … disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians, which are copied in papers of high character and wide circulation, in other parts of the country, while the Indians’ side of the case is rarely ever heard. In this way the people at large get false ideas with reference to the matter. Then when the outbreak does come public attention is turned to the Indians, their crimes and atrocities are alone condemned, while the persons whose injustice has driven them to this course escape scot-free and are the loudest in their denunciations. No one knows this fact better than the Indian, therefore he is excusable in seeing no justice in a government which only punishes him, while it allows the white man to plunder him as he pleases.”
Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.”
“It is too sad . I must speak to him
- The do you really ?
- Sure . How can you expect things to get better , if we do not speak?
- Earlier , you talked to Mr. Omochi . Do you feel that things have thus been arranged?
- What is certain is that if we do not talk , there is no chance to solve the problem.
- What seems more certain is that if we talk, there is serious risk of aggravating the situation.”
“It is too simple
to pet a stray dog
then watch it run under a car
and say it wasn't mine
It is too simple
to admire a rose
then pick it and forget
to put water in the vase
It is too simple
to use a person
for loving without love
then leave him standing alone
and say I don't know him
anymore
It is too simple
to know one's flaws
then live them at great cost to others
and say that's just the way I am
It is too simple
the way we sometimes live our lives
for after all life simply is
a serious matter”
“It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.”
“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.”
Source: The federalist papers
“It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.”
“It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.”
“It is torture, lying there beside you every night… not touching you. Every feckin’ night I ache to feel you wrapped in my arms. I want to press my lips against yours, to pull the clothes from your body and take ya on a spiteful ride.” I lifted my head and cradled hers in my hands, then growled my words a hair’s breadth from her lips. “I want to fill you up to the point that you feel like I do.”
Source: Wild Irish Envy
“it is totally awesome”
Source: Daylighters
“It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.”
“It is totally different. But once we went to 12 teams, that's just the way it was going to be. It's just a reality. But I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that some team can win four games in four days and win the whole thing.”
“It is totally nuts to take healthy sixteen year old sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and put them on “Rx Only” prescription medical oxygen for two hours! I really hope that they acclimatize correctly, that they have pulse oximeters and doctors prescriptions to ensure that the medical prescription oxygen is administered correctly and legally.”