I Quotes
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“It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.”
“It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.”
“It is very hard to answer the oft-posed questions about how Abraham Lincoln would respond to some current condition. My favorite story on that count is that the late great Lincoln scholar Don Fehrebacher was asked, during the struggles over bussing for racial balance a few years ago, what Lincoln would say about "bussing" and he thought awhile and then answered : "what Lincoln would say would be: "What's a bus?"”
“It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.”
“It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.”
“It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.”
“It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.”
“It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped”
“It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire.”
“It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined. A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them. Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.”
“It is very hard to get tested for COVID-19 in the USA.”
“It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.”
“It is very hard to manage staff when you are suffering from the toxic effects of workplace mercury poisoning.”
“It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.”
“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.”
“It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.”
“It is very hard to shave an egge.
[It is very hard to shave an egg.]”
“It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then.”
“It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.”
“It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if their goal is to grow wealth." And he said that those who still insist on an actively managed fund are almost certainly "deluding themselves.”
“It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.”
“It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.”
“It is very ill-mannered to swallow what should be spat . . . After spitting into your handkerchief, you should fold it once, without looking at it, and put it in your pocket. 1729
Davies, Norman. Europe: A History (p. 605). Random House. Kindle-editie.”
“It is very important and my success very much depends on the harmony that I feel in my private life. It is essential for me to be happy in my private life. And if it continues, I am able to continue playing tennis.”
“It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.”
“It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.”
“It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.”
“It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.”
“It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.”
“It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.”
“It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in local activities, get involved in local initiatives, be involved in leadership positions because you can’t learn unless you are involved. And if you make mistakes that is alright too because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.”
“It is very important how efficiently and wisely we manage and plan to use the blessings that God has already given to us”
“It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.”
“It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.”
“It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.”
“It is very important not to think about losing.”
“It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.”
“It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.”
“It is very important that our belonging before God not depend upon our ability to hide or extinguish truths in and about us. We must trust that our maker can look on our rage, and even our hatred, and perceive those stories, fears, and vulnerabilities that reside in us and have stirred us toward our present emotional expression. As we allow God to behold our rage, a sacred intimacy emerges.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology; And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“It is very important that the president thematically shows where we're going in terms of the vision and an agenda.”
“It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.”
“It is very important that you become your own psychologist. Then you can treat yourself through
the understanding wisdom of your own mind; you’ll be able to relax...”
Source: Becoming Your Own Therapist
“It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.”
“It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.”
“It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people now who believe in serial love, loving one person after another. I don’t think that is good for our mental health. I think we should get it over with. Love is like measles, you know. You only get it once in your lifetime and you are immune forever. I am very happy to say that is what happened to me. I am completely immune to any temptation. All men who have passed my life after I got married might as well have been sticks of furniture.”
“It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change.”