I Quotes
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“It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“It is unfortunate that many people today cannot sense the worth in people.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.”
“It is unfortunate that some in our party have lost sight of the importance of conservation and environmental protection for keeping America strong, healthy, prosperous, and secure. It's time for all of our Republican leaders to recognize that conservation is conservative.”
“It is unfortunate that some of us worry about losing data but not our thoughts about the data. If we believed in the premises of sociology—that interaction is patterned, that people share meanings, beliefs, and behaviors—then we would trust that the patterns we missed while we were writing will still be there when we return to the field. We are more likely to forget our insights into what we observed.”
Source: Emotions and Fieldwork
“It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.”
“It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“It is unfortunate that the global masses do not understand the biological toxicity of Space development.”
“It is unfortunate that the government chooses to be willfully incompetent in the field of environmental radiation.”
“It is unfortunate that the mistakes of the parents are so easy to spot, while those of the children are yet to be committed.”
Source: Codex Hyperboreanus
“It is unfortunate that the modern healthcare system has devolved into a mass production line of sickened people attending very short appointments with overworked doctors that are delivering substandard care that is influenced by drug companies.”
“It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.”
“It is unfortunate that through experience I now expect to be harassed and possibly hit by a police officer when I make an emergency call.”
“It is unfortunate that very few people have ever tried to know meditation, because meditation is the way to joy and happiness.
Meditation means to participate in the celebration of existence. Without it life remains a misery, a sadness and a frustration.
Meditation is the only way to be the blessed one and to participate in the mystery of ife. Meditation is the door to God.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the country. I travel with two bodyguards all the time and there is substantial cost involved”
“It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.”
“It is unfortunate to say, but someone has to voice the pain, the struggle, the real and the lived through. You can thank the artists, poets, musicians for that - our stories may bleed sorrow but what we create seems to always hit right down to the core, the places many fear to tread, the soul. We give meaning for the scars.”
“It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.”
“It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts.”
“It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.”
“It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.”
“It is unfortunately for us both also the truth that I love you and only you utterly and permanently and to distraction.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.”
“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”
“It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.”
“It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.”
“It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.”
“It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.”
“It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.”
“It is unimpressive to interrupt another person while they are talking. Interrupting someone in mid-sentence demonstrates that your focus is on yourself, not the person talking. I had a friend who used a humorous retort whenever someone would interrupt him. He would graciously, albeit sarcastically, say, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to speak while you were interrupting.” It always got a laugh, yet he was cleverly letting the intruder know of his infraction without being too confrontational.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“It is unimpressive to not hold a door open for the next person coming through. After a satisfying workout at my gym, I was walking behind a man who was exiting at the same time. He was only about two feet in front of me. As he walked through the door, he let it close behind him, almost hitting me in the face. Was he being intentionally rude? Was he preoccupied and focused on other things?
No matter whether an offender is being a jerk intentionally, or is simply oblivious to how his behavior is affecting others, rude behavior instantly makes a negative impression. Be aware!”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“It is unimpressive to not return what’s been borrowed. Whether you have borrowed money, folding chairs, yard tools, or a popular book, always make sure you return to another person what is rightfully theirs. Lending it to you in the first place was a gift of trust and assistance. Being slow to give back in return may be considered rude.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“It is unimpressive to speaking rudely to others. Often, all we need to do to ensure that we do not launch into a rude remark is to pause . . . breathe . . . and smile to ourselves before speaking.
And when people are rude to you, just remember that they are revealing who they are, not who you are. Don’t take it personally. Sometimes being silent is your best response.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.”
Source: Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds
“It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.”
Source: The God Delusion
“It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.”
Source: The Great Movies IV
“It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.”
Source: The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author
“It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of the conclusion depends not only on the fact that it was reached but on how hard the theorist had to tweak the model to get there.”
“It is universally better to obey God than Man when the laws of God and Man clash and interfere with one another.”
“It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.”
Source: Tales and Novels: The absentee (concluded) Madame de Fleury. Emilie de Coulanges. The modern Griselda
“It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.”
“It is unjust, it is so unjust, was her thought. I have never been recognized as myself.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.”
Source: An Inqury Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
“It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“It is unjust to have big dreams and not pursue them earnestly. Those meant to benefit from them, including you, will be made to suffer unnecessarily.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.”
Source: The Art of Chess Combination
“It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
“It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.”