I Quotes
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“It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“It will, of course, be said that such a scheme as is set forth here is quite unpractical, and goes against human nature. This is perfectly true. It is unpractical, and it goes against human nature. This is why it is worth carrying out, and that is why one proposes it.
For what is a practical scheme? A practical scheme is either a scheme that is already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under existing conditions.
But it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to; and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish. The conditions will be done away with, and human nature will change.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.”
“It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.”
“It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“It will probably leave a scar. But so does everything.”
Source: Precious Catastrophe
“It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.”
Source: Instead of a Book
“It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.”
“It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.”
Source: Collected Works
“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.”
Source: Il grande
“It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality”
“It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.”
“It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.”
“It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.”
“It will seem absurd to many people, but I have an unbounded sympathy to women of this kind, and I do not think it necessary to apologize for such sympathy. One day, as I was going to the Prefecture for a passport, I saw in one of the neighboring streets a poor girl who was being marched along by two policemen. I do not know what was the matter. All I know is that she was weeping bitterly as she kissed an infant only a few months old, from whom her arrest was to separate her. Since that day I have never dared to despise a woman at first sight.”
Source: La dame aux camélias
“It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.”
“It will seem to many persons very inconsistent with their ideas of the dignity of a spirit that they should appear and act in the manner I have described, and shall describe further; and I have heard it objected that we cannot suppose God would permit the dead to return merely to frighten the living, and that it is showing Him little reverence to imagine He would suffer them to come on such trifling errands, or demean themselves in so undignified a fashion. But God permits men of all degrees of wickedness, and of every kind of absurdity, to exist, and to harass and disturb the earth, whilst they expose themselves to its obloquy or its ridicule.”
Source: The Night Side of Nature
“It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.”
“It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.”
“It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.”
Source: How to be Free
“It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.”
“It will soon make sense with some reasonable research and reading...ti's all in there, somewhere... find it!!”
“It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!”
“It will strike all countries. The global economic crisis could plunge 500 million people into poverty, so stated in a position paper by the UN (172).”
“It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.”
“It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.”
“It will take a concerted effort, determination, and courage
to replenish the soil and to reset humanity’s mindset.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.”
“It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.”
“It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.”
“It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.”
“It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.”
“It will take a nation of millions to hold me back.”
Source: The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers' Edition
“It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific”
“It will take a while to achieve your goals, but if you do not give up, you will achieve them in due time.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“It will take about a month for that awareness to be fully absorbed and modify someone's attention field. During that period of time, a person who studies with me will meditate on their own, and apply those things that they have learned to their daily lives.”
“It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple”
Source: Selected poems, 1950-1995
“It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history. ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs. ... let me make something clear.”
“It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.”
“It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all.”
“It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.”
“It will take just a simple realization to cause a big change!”
“It will take just one generation choosing gentle, compassionate, respectful parenting to change the world for all future generations. This is our time. Our chance is now. Let's do our part to change the world, one little heart at a time.”
“It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition
“It will take some clever appraisal on your part, but your clothes should express value without extravagance, warmth without being brazen, and understanding without looking like Whistler's Mother.”
Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife
“It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.”
“It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it.”
“It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.”
“It will take time to heal. Just like all the others.”
Source: Blood for Blood