It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
‐‐ Francesco Guicciardini
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
‐‐ Alphonsus Liguori
It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
‐‐ Anthony de Mello
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne
It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.
‐‐ Lionel Murphy
It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!
‐‐ Kevin Nealon
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
‐‐ James Baldwin
It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you're the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what's important.
‐‐ John Roberts
It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.
‐‐ Ellen G. White
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
‐‐ George Matthew Adams
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
‐‐ Orson Pratt
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
‐‐ Gerard Manley Hopkins
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
‐‐ Marcus Porcius Cato
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
‐‐ Joel Osteen
It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
‐‐ Eva Figes
It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
‐‐ Bainbridge Colby
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson
It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you.
‐‐ Margaret D. Nadauld
It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.
‐‐ Murray Walker
It is a job requirement of U.S. envoys to El Salvador to be skilled in the art of the threat. And Aponte, named ambassador in 2010, is a pro. In particular, she's been tasked with making sure the former insurgent FMLN, which first won the presidency in 2009 and was reelected in 2014, reconciles itself to neoliberal reality.
‐‐ Greg Grandin
It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.
‐‐ Edward Burns
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
‐‐ David Hume
It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
‐‐ Albert Camus
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins
It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.
‐‐ Max Heindel
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
‐‐ Sallust
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
‐‐ Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
‐‐ Aeschylus
It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.
‐‐ Scott Kelly
It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola
It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, 'What's up? I'm gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.' I don't feel like I'm a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.
‐‐ Mary Lambert
It is a little weird now, going over to Heath's place. It's like, 'Hi Heath, hi Nomes.' Very strange!
‐‐ Martin Henderson
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
‐‐ Susan Hampshire
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley
It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.
‐‐ Jim Messina
It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.
‐‐ Steven Seagal
It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.
‐‐ Guan Tianlang
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
‐‐ Buddha
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
‐‐ Dwight L. Moody
It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.
‐‐ Max Heindel
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
‐‐ Strom Thurmond