I Quotes
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“It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.”
Source: Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others
“It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.”
Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson
“It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.”
“It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.”
Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
“It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.”
“It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.”
Source: Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948
“It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.”
“It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.”
Source: Dracula
“It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.”
“It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.”
“It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.”
“It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.”
Source: The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.”
Source: Collected Works
“It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.”
“It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.”
“It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.”
“It is work that truly defines what it means to be an American, what separates and elevates its people above all others in the world today.”
Source: In Limbo
“It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.”
Source: The American Way of Life
“It is working for God, not a boss. Maybe you will get a raise in consciousness.”
Source: Digging for God
“It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.”
“It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.”
“It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.”
“It is worse than at Syria, Turkey and Russia. Great. I will be glad, very glad, when I will live in another country about a couple of years.”
“It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.”
“It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.”
Source: Assassin's Fate
“It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]”
“It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.”
“It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.”
Source: the elements of style
“It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires”
“It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.”
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?”
“It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.”
“It is worth it to give up all that you now are to be all that you could become.”
“It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.”
“It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.”
“It is worth it to serve the Lord, young people. It is worth it, it is worth it, it is worth it a million times.”
“It is worth knowing the rules of vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidences). The invention of an aeroplane is not out of rule. In the current time cycle, the [human] lifespan has remained the same while the karmas are numerous in quantity. It is in order to clear these [karmas] that speedy vehicles have emerged. So according to the rules of vyvavasthit, anything can become the evidentiary doer (nimit).”
Source: Noble Use of Money
“It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.”
Source: Gilead
“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.”
“It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.”
“It is worth noting that Elon Musk enjoys certain privileges that may not be available to everyone. For instance, he is situated in the United States, which is a developed country with a large population of over 300 million people, and where funding opportunities are relatively more abundant. His previous entrepreneurial successes have also placed him in favourable positions to secure funding for his ambitious projects.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.”
“It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are also the same people who consistently oppose freedom. They want only one God &emdash; the state, which of course they intend to run.”
“It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies for storage - resulted from public innovation and R&D, not private. The problem is that we haven't done enough of it, and we have done it inconsistently.”
“It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.”
“It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.”
“It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.”
Source: Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960