I Quotes
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“It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.”
“It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.”
“It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.”
“It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.”
“It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.”
“It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.”
“It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.”
Source: The Rose Tattoo
“It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.”
“It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.”
“It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."”
“It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.”
“It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.”
“It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.”
Source: The Secret Doctrine
“It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.”
“It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.”
“It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.”
Source: Anselm's Philosophy
“It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.”
“It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.”
“It is. But not as hard as farce.”
“It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.”
Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary
“It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.”
Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
“It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.”
“It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.”
Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium
“It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.”
“It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.”
“It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.”
“It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.”
“It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles.”
“It isn’t a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”
Source: Winter
“It isn't a matter of fitting in but rather staying in because some people just don't.”
“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.”
Source: Cursor's Fury
“It isn’t always a matter, we should note, of identifying with the protagonist. No one I know, regardless of how much they love his novel, wants to be Humbert Humbert or Victor Frankenstein, although perhaps for different reasons. Or Heathcliff. Ever want to be Heathcliff? I didn’t think so. They are not the stuff of our fantasy lives, yet we may revel in their world, even while reviling their personalities. Consider Humbert. The narrative strategy Nabokov employs is very daring, since it demands that we identify with someone who is breaking what nearly everyone will consider the most absolute taboo. …Sympathy is out of the question. What the novel requires, however, is that we continue reading, something it audaciously gives us reason to do. The word games and intellectual brilliance helps, certainly; he’s detestable but charming and brilliant. The other element is that we watch him with a sort of appalled fascination: can he really intend that; does he really do this; would he really attempt even that; has he lost all sense of proportion? The answers are, in order, yes, yes, yes, and yes. Pretty clearly, then, there are pleasures in the text that are not inherent in the personality of the main character.”
Source: How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
“It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's still right between us, always.”
Source: Prized
“It isn't always easy to bear your soul to perfect strangers, harder still, sometimes, to do so to loved ones.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“It isn't always easy to trust people you love - not because you don't love them enough, but because you don't want them to be wrong and get hurt. But getting hurt is a part of life, and so, thank God, is trust.”
Source: A String in the Harp
“It isn’t always right to listen to advice. One must follow one’s instinct. But then it isn’t always right to ignore an advice either. For an advice contains the grain of a perspective other than one’s own.”
Source: Still She Cried
“It isn’t always the treasure that drives men down deep into the sea; it’s something else, something unexplainable, even to them.”
Source: Into Her Chambers
“It isn’t always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“It isn't an easy business (...) Love, he said finally. I was referring to love, Rebecca.”
Source: Autobiography of Us
“It isn't constancy that keeps us alive, it's the progression we use to move us.”
Source: Alone With You in the Ether
“It isn't easy, being a wicked stepfather. There are no guidelines. Western literature is filled with tips on how to become a wicked stepmother. Give your stepkid a poison apple. Make her clean the chimney while your daughters go to the ball. Ditch them in a forest and make them find their way home with bread crumbs. Stepfathers don't get an instruction manual. They have to learn to be wicked on their own.”
Source: Stepfathers Are People Too
“It isn't easy being an organism. In the whole universe, as far as we know, there is only one place, an inconspicuous outpost of the Milky Way called Earth, that will sustain you, and even it can be pretty grudging.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“It isn't easy to end things, just like that, like a wink or a sigh, or a whiff of air or a shrug of the left shoulder, it isn't easy to end anything.”
Source: Love Ugh! A Darker History of a Human Being
“It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.”
Source: Atlas
“It isn't enough that the bad guy is prevented from doing his bad deeds; he must suffer as much as possible. It is as if the existence of evil - or something that can be designated as evil - provides a safe haven for the good to engage in evil. It's a safe space to indulge in inflicting harm, to experience the sublime of suffering.”
Source: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
“It isn't enough to be beautiful, James thought he heard her say, though with the ringing in his ears he couldn't know for sure. Beautiful is for other people. You have to be something for you.”
Source: Tuesday Nights in 1980
“It isn't enough to pick a path—you must go down it. By doing so, you see things you couldn't possibly see when you started out; you may not like what you see, some of it may be confusing, but at least you will have, as we like to say, "explored the neighborhood." The key point here is that even if you decide you're in the wrong place, there is still time to head toward the right place.”
Source: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration