I Quotes
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“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”
“It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts"
but by our interpretation of the facts.”
“It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.”
“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“It is very painful to argue with an incredibly ignorant person. Not because they are stupid, but because the stupid are unbelievably arrogant and insulting. Their constant intention to manipulate a conversation in order to nullify their responsibility transforms any conversation into a game of theirs to bring another person down rather than using logic, and much less allow an agreement.”
“It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.”
Source: Shadow Song: Shadow Song
“It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.”
Source: Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works
“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.”
“It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.”
“It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!”
“It is very possible to acknowledge another person’s concerns without entering into their vibration.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility.”
Source: Spiritual Maturity: Principles of Spiritual Growth for Every Believer
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts; as was Hepzibah of this native inapplicability, so to speak, of the Pyncheons to any useful purpose.”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.”
“It is very rare for a child of God to find gold and crude oil on the floor to fetch. He/she must dig and dig deeply well!!!”
“It is very rare for someone to want and to deserve to be famous.”
“It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.”
“It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.”
“It is very rare that cheap decisions will make great impact.”
“It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.”
“It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies
“It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.”
“It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.”
“It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?”
“It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.”
Source: Sermons on important subjects
“It is very rewarding to feel and see progress. I am going to put my head down and keep plugging away. I believe the best is yet to come.”
“It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.”
“It is very rewarding to walk out on stage, feeling the love and reception.”
“It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something new, a product in the world that gets really high marks and everyone loves using it and raves about it. You will feel very good about it.”
“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
Source: The Giver (illustrated; gift edition)
“It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.”
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
“It is very sad that if you are kind to all people they think that you are all on the same level.”
“It is very sad that most of us just aren’t grateful for what we have. If you’re reading this, I think it’s safe to assume that you’re not homeless. You’re not blind. You might be ill, but you’re still alive. And yet, we find it hard to be thankful. To see the gift each day brings us. It is from this lack of true gratitude that we become sad. We have told ourselves over and over that we aren’t happy. That our lives aren’t good. That we’re no good.”
Source: From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.”
“It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.”
“It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.”
Source: Summer Crossing: A Novel
“It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.”
“It is very seldom that one encounters what would appear to be sheer unadulterated evil in a human face; an evil, I mean, active, deliberate, deadly, dangerous. Folly, heedlessness, vanity, pride, craft, meanness, stupidity - yes. But even Iagos in this world are few, and devilry is as rare as witchcraft. ("Bad Company")”
Source: Ghost stories
“It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.”
“It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet”
Source: The Health Guide
“It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.”
“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
“It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.”
“It is very simple, Messi is the best in the world, and if you give him a little bit of space, he can do whatever he wants.”
“It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.”