All Quotes

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
‐‐ Albert Claude

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
‐‐ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
‐‐ Charles Fillmore

It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

It is the circuit of the great ruinous deed when the name of the seventh is that of the fifth; when the third, even greater, the warlike stranger will take Paris, nor will Provence save her.
‐‐ Nostradamus

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
‐‐ Erica Jong

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.
‐‐ Stjepan Hauser

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
‐‐ John Philpot Curran

It is the common wish of the people that the autocratic rule of the Manchu government be overthrown, that the Republic of China be strengthened, and that people's livelihood and welfare be pursued.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
‐‐ Thomas Browne

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.
‐‐ Max Heindel

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'
‐‐ Robert Byrd

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
‐‐ Junius

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
‐‐ Mary Daly

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
‐‐ Raymond Queneau

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
‐‐ Pope Gregory VII

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
‐‐ Pat Robertson

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.
‐‐ Terry McAuliffe

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.
‐‐ John Nelson Darby

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
‐‐ Rutherford B. Hayes

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
‐‐ Jean-Claude Duvalier

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
‐‐ Antoine Rivarol

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.
‐‐ Joseph P. Bradley

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
‐‐ Tiberius

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
‐‐ Nathan Hale

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan

It is the duty of man to raise up man.
‐‐ Jose Marti

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
‐‐ Eamon de Valera

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
‐‐ Annie Besant

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
‐‐ Edmund Barton

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
‐‐ Eisaku Sato

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.
‐‐ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
‐‐ Eddie Rickenbacker