Quotes 10421 till 10440 of 25662.
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
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It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times - the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie - seem attractive by comparison.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII -
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
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