I Quotes
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“It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.”
“It is uncomfortable to keep your dreams in a house just behind a public toilet; your dreams will surely attract bad odours from the waste products of people in detracting environments. Keep it away from negative people!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.”
“It is unconscionable for children in our prosperous country, or anywhere for that matter, to go without food. I implore everyone to contact their local and state representatives to encourage action to end hunger.”
“It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.”
“It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the right way to go. I think it's a great celebration for America.”
“It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a common birthright; these are fundamentals and should not be handed out as an act of charity.”
Source: Prison meditations of Father Alfred Delp
“It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to give. But what to give is the problem. It seems finally clear that we cannot find out what to do simply by thinking about it. We need to gain our inspiration and our direction from much deeper sources.”
Source: Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body
“It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then.”
“It is undeniable that we all create scenarios and then become convinced by them, down to our very cells.”
Source: Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine
“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”
“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“It is under the law of justice, under the reign of right, under the influence of liberty, security, stability, and responsibility, that every man will attain to the fullness of his worth, to all the dignity of his being, and that mankind will accomplish with order and with calmness...the progress ordained for it.”
Source: The Law
“It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings of great joy and this must be reflected in our lives, if we are to be believable especially as we suggest to others that there is, in fact, not only a better way, but also the way. Scriptures that speak of man as a being who "might have joy" have more impact when falling from the lips or pens of men and women whose lives give fresh evidence of the validity of that scripture.”
“It is understandable if you are struggling to reconcile images of a smooth moving Justin Timberlake singing, “I’m bringing sexy back…” with the experience of working in aged care! Sexy is often everything that aged care is not. But by using the word “sexy” I am not referring to the high octane experience of being intimate with someone. Who knows though, your older adult clients may well want to talk about such things! How senior friendly to encourage this? What I am referring to is bringing the spice or pizzazz associated with respect back to our Western society that appears to have lost its way in valuing seniors.”
Source: Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
“It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.”
“It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different - men and women live in different worlds. [...] At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”
“It is understandable that the white community should fear the outbreak of riots. They are indefensible as weapons of struggle, and Negroes must sympathize with whites who feel menaced by them. Indeed, Negroes are themselves no less menaced, and those living in the ghetto always suffer most directly from the destructive turbulence of a riot.
Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain. He has to rise up with indignation against his own municipal, state and national governments to demand that the necessary reforms be instituted which alone will protect him. If he reserves his resentment only for the Negro, he will be the victim by allowing those who have the greatest culpability to evade responsibility.
Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention. There is no other answer. Constructive social change will bring certain tranquility; evasions will merely encourage turmoil.
Negroes hold only one key to the double lock of peaceful change. The other is in the hands of the white community.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“It is understandable why a person might shirk a brutal self-assessment until the unforgiving talons of a reckless life rips their thin skin covertures into shreds leaving a person ensnared in their destructive thoughts and lacerated with bolts of self-incrimination.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is understood that, at the moment, the consciousness of many rests lightly upon the surface. It is the difference between exoteric and esoteric, between believing and knowing. There will be many unable or unwilling to shake ancient prejudices.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.”
“It is undesirable that all citizens become soldiers and engage in physical combat. We need philosophers or great thinkers to revolutionize the mentalities of the youth in order to properly serve the state.”
“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true”
“It is undignified to inject yourself with hormones designed to slow or enhance ovarian production. It is undignified to have your ovaries monitored by transvaginal ultrasound; to be sedated so that your eggs can be aspirated into a needle; to have your husband emerge sheepishly from a locked room with the “sample” that will be combined with your eggs under supervision of an embryologist. The grainy photo they hand you on transfer day, of your eight-celled embryo (which does not look remotely like a baby), is undignified, and so is all the waiting and despairing that follows.”
Source: The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
“It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.”
Source: The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works
“It is undoubtedly the case (and considerations advanced in the first sub-section have prepared us for this conclusion) that the election does in some sense denote the basis of all the relationships between God and man, between God in His very earliest movement towards man and man in his very earliest determination by this divine movement. it is in the decision in favour of this movement, in God’s self-determination and the resultant determination of man, in the basic relationship which is enclosed and fulfilled within Himself, that God is who He is.”
“It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.”
“It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.”
Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke
“It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”
“It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.”
“It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an impassioned life. It is unethical not to attain greatness. It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy and the conspiracy of mediocrity. It is unethical not to self-bestow genius. It is unethical not to be the first monkey.”
“It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.”
“It is unfair, shameful, and an abuse of the system, the people, and power, a crime against humanity. A government that charges its people more or increases people's taxes, not to provide better services, but so that politicians can steal more and live luxurious lives without the stress of running out of money.
They are not offering more services or improving anything. They are not helping more or giving more. Instead, they are taking more from the people so they can have more for themselves. These are crime syndicates in Parliament. They are not revolutionaries, they are simply opportunistic thieves.”
“It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person’s true character.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.”
Source: INWARD HO!
“It is unfair to close your doors at a thief. He doesn't knock at your door, he knocks at your back”
“It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.”
Source: Plays Volume One
“It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.”
“It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.”
Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire
“It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.”
“It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.”
“It is unfortunate for the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory that it failed to see that blatantly harassing a sickened worker out of their job would have long term repercussions for its ability to operate its current and future facilities atop Mauna Kea as their victim told their horror story to the world.”
“It is unfortunate, of course, that this quiet happy moment was the last one the children would have for quite some time, but there is nothing anyone can do about it now. Just when the Baudelaires were beginning to think about lunch, they heard a car pull up in front of the house and toot its horn. To the children it signaled the arrival of Stephano. To us it should signal the beginning of more misery.”
Source: The Reptile Room
“It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.”
“It is unfortunate that calling 911 may result in an incompetent or corrupt police officer being sent to you.”
“It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.”
“It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.”
“It is unfortunate that it is possible to 'know' something that is not true.”
“It is unfortunate that many people today cannot appreciate the value that every man possesses.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth