I Quotes
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“It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed”
“It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.”
“It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“It is useless work that darkens the heart.”
“It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.”
Source: Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight: (previously titled Cugel's Saga)
“It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.”
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.”
Source: The spectator
“It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.”
Source: Selected Stories
“It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea. The fact that you start with a small choice does not mean you will be on that narrow road forever.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.”
Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
“It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.”
“It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.”
“It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.”
“It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.”
“It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession as evil, is ashamed of it. But the contrary is true. People whom fate and their sin-mistakes have placed in a certain position, however false that position may be, form a view of life in general which makes their position seem good and admissible. In order to keep up their view of life, these people instinctively keep to the circle of those people who share their views of life and their own place in it. This surprises us, where the persons concerned are thieves, bragging about their dexterity, prostitutes vaunting their depravity, or murderers boasting of their cruelty. This surprises us only because the circle, the atmosphere in which these people live, is limited, and we are outside it. But can we not observe the same phenomenon which the rich boast of their wealth, i.e., robbery; the commanders in the army pride themselves on their victories, i.e., murder; and those in high places vaunt their power, i.e., violence? We do not see the perversion in the views of life held by these people, only because the circle formed by them is more extensive, and we ourselves are moving inside of it.”
Source: Resurrection
“It is usually impossible to know when you have prevented an accident.”
“it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.”
“It is usually known that newspapers do not say the truth, but it is also known that they cannot tell whoppers.”
Source: Orwell on Truth
“It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.”
“It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.”
“It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.”
“It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.”
“It is usually those whose love is fake that have a compulsion to prove their love.”
“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
“It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.”
“It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.”
“It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.”
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“It is utterly crucial that in our darkness we affirm the wise, strong hand of God to hold us, even when we have no strength to hold him.”
Source: When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—And Joy
“It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.”
Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
“It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.”
“It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.”
“It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.”
“It is utterly impossible to throw yourself away in the process of giving yourself away.”
“It is utterly inappropriate for the president Donald Trump to be weighing in the design and acquisitions process of carrier ships at this level. Had a Democratic president done this kind of micromanagement, all the more so in public, Republican defense wonks would have been apoplectic. Instead ... crickets.”
“It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.”
Source: True North
“It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.”
“It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.”
“It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”
“It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.”
“It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.”
Source: By my Spirit
“It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.”
“It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.”
“It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.”
“It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.”
Source: Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading
“It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.”
“It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.”
“It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.”
“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”
Source: Vindication of the Rights of Women