All Quotes

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
‐‐ Aldo Leopold

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
‐‐ Robert Fitzgerald

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.
‐‐ John Carroll Lynch

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced.
‐‐ Jeffrey R. Immelt

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
‐‐ Epictetus

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
‐‐ Russell Baker

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!
‐‐ John Harvey Kellogg

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
‐‐ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.
‐‐ Mario Balotelli

Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan

Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
‐‐ Vinod Khosla

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
‐‐ Tupac Shakur

Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
‐‐ Evangelista Torricelli

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
‐‐ Albert Claude

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?
‐‐ Phil Donahue

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
‐‐ Robert Byrd

Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry

Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?
‐‐ Matt Bevin

Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'm hedging my bets and working both sides of the street.
‐‐ Ruth Glick

Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
‐‐ Magda Apanowicz

Is it demonstratable? Does it have that wow factor? Is it easy to use? Is it priced right?
‐‐ Billy Mays

Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive type of guy. I try to put my female hat on and think how a female would think. If I'm watching 'The Notebook,' I'm definitely gonna cry. I cried during 'E.T.' too.
‐‐ Benny Blanco

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

Is it ever worthwhile to buy a review? Not in my opinion. With independent paid review services, quality can be a problem; plus, there are plenty of non-professional book review venues out there that will review for free.
‐‐ Victoria Strauss

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
‐‐ Marguerite Young

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
‐‐ Victoria Woodhull

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
‐‐ John Calvin

Is it going to be the people of Kentucky who decides who their senator's going to be, or is it going to be Mitch McConnell saying, 'This is my protege Trey; this is who your next senator's going to be.'?
‐‐ Matt Bevin

Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
‐‐ Karl A. Menninger

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
‐‐ Marc Maron

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.
‐‐ Edie Falco

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
‐‐ John Fiske

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.
‐‐ French Montana

Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
‐‐ George Steinbrenner

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?
‐‐ Robbie Coltraine