I Quotes
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“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
Source: A wreath of roses
“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon it says, "Work!" After beefsteak and porter, it says, "Sleep!" After a cup of tea (two spoonfuls for each cup, and don't let it stand for more than three minutes), it says to the brain, "Now rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature, and into life: spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.”
“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.”
Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.”
Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.”
Source: Trauma and recovery
“It is very terrible and hard, to work, under the idiots and the fools.”
“It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it.”
“It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.”
“It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.”
“It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.”
“It is very undesirable to trigger adaptation processes in the human body.”
“It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.”
“It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.”
Source: Emma
“It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.”
“It is very unkind of you to feel this way. Any woman should properly yield, it seems to me, even a complete stranger, because that is the way of the world.... All I desire is solace from the flood of memories that overwhelms me.”
Source: The Tale of Genji
“It is very unlikely that [Lasith Malinga] would be able to play in the World Cup”
“It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.”
“It is very unlikely that Uganda will face a chaotic scenario similar to that in Syria or other places. Incidentally, doctors, scientists, engineers and nurses are highly sought after and find jobs immediately.”
“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”
“It is very unprofessional for a professional to declare another professional an unprofessional without professional expertise.”
Source: Quantraz
“It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.”
Source: The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents
“It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.”
“It is very unusual for someone from Latin American society to openly stand by his homosexuality. In my hometown, there are still lots of prejudices against gays. We are often not considered to be fully-fledged people. The family is sacred there; having children means more than anything else.”
“It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.”
“It is very, very bad to assume that people are intelligent.”
“It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.”
“It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?”
“It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?”
Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?”
“It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs.”
Source: The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”
“It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.”
“It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me.”
“It is very, very rare where a slight that turns into a grudge that is in need of forgiveness is only about one of the parties. In most of our day-to-day situations - with colleagues at work, with your partner, with your children, with your friends - most of the time, if you really got down with each other and put aside your pride and your defensiveness and you had those hard conversations, you'd find a place where both people had something to ask for forgiveness from the other and to forgive the other.”
“It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.”
“It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.”
“It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.”
“It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.”
“It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.”
“It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.”
“It is virtually impossible to get a refund from a budget airline!”
“It is virtually impossible to harm a Timex watch. For some reason, the less you pay for a watch, the surer you can be that it will never stop.”
Source: Deadeye Dick
“It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.”
Source: Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream
“It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.”
Source: Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter: And Some Poems
“It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.”
“It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.”
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger