I Quotes
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“It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.”
“It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.”
Source: Theory of Legislation
“It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.”
Source: A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District
“It is with great concern that Lord Cornwallis hears every day reports of Soldiers being taken by the Enemy, in consequence of their Straggling out of Camp in search of whiskey.”
Source: The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
“It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.”
“It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.”
“It is with great regret that my marriage to Grant is ending after more than six years. He is a special man and we have two amazing children together Ruby, 5, and son Rocco, 3. This was a mutual decision that was not taken lightly and we are committed to our children and will work together to ensure their happy and healthy upbringing.”
“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that have to announce that I ate kale and liked it.”
“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.”
“It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step toward eliminating many of the hardships resulting from old age, disability, or the death of the family wage-earner. A nation's strength lies in the well-being of its people. The Social Security program plays an important part in providing for families, children, and older persons in time of stress, but it cannot remain static. Changes in our population, in our working habits, and in our standard of living require constant revision.”
“It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it”
“It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.”
“It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.”
“It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.”
“It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.”
Source: Tributes and miscellany
“It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.”
Source: The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels
“It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“It is with no doubt that there is trouble in every household, but I do not see the motive behind labelling each other as “narcissists” only after separation has occurred.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.”
“It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.”
“It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'”
“It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.”
“It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights”
“It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.”
Source: (v. 3-8) Comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American Revolution
“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live”
“It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.”
Source: Is 5
“It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.”
“It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.”
“It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.”
“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.”
Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...
“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.”
“It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.”
Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.”
“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
“It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it”
“It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.”
“It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
“It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns”
“It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.”
“It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.”
“It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.”
“It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.”
Source: Theories and Things
“It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.”
Source: Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation – Intimate Reflections on Faith, Seminary, Ministry, and Writing
“It is within the confines of your own mind that your both present and future are created then takes form.”
Source: Life's Impressions
“It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.”