I Quotes
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“It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world. I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way-to people in need.”
“It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.”
“It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those models developed 50 to 60 years after his.”
“It is truly an honor to be associated with #WeAreMaunaKea.”
“It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.”
“It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.”
“It is truly ironic that a four-hundred tonne aluminium monster floats so effortlessly through the sky, and only the five-year-old thinks to say, "Wow!”
Source: What Your Soul Already Knows
“It is truly one day at a time.”
“It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.”
“It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.”
“It is truly time to inspire your mind, whatever your dreams may be! Don’t wait for tomorrow, whatever your sorrows. Today is the day to ‘believe’. Jump to it! written by Lee Bice-Matheson, c2011.”
“It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.”
Source: Meetings at the edge: dialogues with the grieving and the dying, the healing and the healed
“It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."”
“It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.”
“It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.”
Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.”
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.”
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.”
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography
“It is Tuesday, near dusk. Night creeps in and strips colors from the scene. Everything is purplish. There have been many Tuesdays in the Minotaur‘s life. He wonders how this one will end.”
Source: The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
“It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.”
“It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”
“It is two A.M., and you are tired. You miss the love of your life. You want to go home. You would rather be with her, in bed, hearing the light buzz of her snoring, watching her sleep, than be here.
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You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It is typical for corrupt police departments to give you the runaround regarding police body camera requests until you file a police complaint and then they usually comply.”
“It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.”
“It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.”
“It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.”
Source: A Way of Seeing
“It is typically Norwegian to be good”
“It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.”
“It is ultimately character that underwrites art.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“It is ultimately free will that decides the fate of man. The choices may be predetermined, but the choice is not.”
Source: The Little Light
“It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is ultimately your choices that decide your destiny.”
Source: The Mirror of Destiny
“It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.”
“It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.”
“It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.”
“It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.”
“It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.”
“It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.”
“It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.”
“It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.”
“It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.”
“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”
“It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the Word of God and refuses Christ as Savior. It is unbelief that causes men to turn a deaf ear to the Gospel.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.”
Source: The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture
“It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.”
“It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.”
Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.”
“It is unclear if corporate governments are truly the dunces of human health or if they are just faking it in order to propagate a biologically toxic agenda on an unsuspecting global population.”
“It is unclear which terrified the authorities most: the revolutionary potential of the Marxist 'subversives', based on class, or that of the UNIA, based on race.”
Source: Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937–66