All Quotes

It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.
‐‐ Kathleen Kenyon

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
‐‐ Robert Southey

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.
‐‐ George Crook

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.
‐‐ Fredric March

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
‐‐ Margaret Oliphant

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.
‐‐ Harry Reid

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
‐‐ Spike Lee

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.
‐‐ John Glenn

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
‐‐ Jim Garrison

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
‐‐ Robert Walpole

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
‐‐ Richard Cobden

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.
‐‐ Joe Jamail

It has been popular to threaten 'small islands and low-lying coasts' with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
‐‐ Nils-Axel Morner

It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.
‐‐ Otto Wallach

It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.
‐‐ Selman Waksman

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
‐‐ Gerard De Nerval

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.
‐‐ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.
‐‐ Ronald Biggs

It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There's no reason they couldn't likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
‐‐ Allen Klein

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.
‐‐ Kay Granger

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
‐‐ Kofi Annan

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.
‐‐ Amy Pascal

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
‐‐ George Borrow

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
‐‐ Dan Pallotta

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
‐‐ Joan Crawford

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
‐‐ Henryk Sienkiewicz

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
‐‐ Charles Eastman

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
‐‐ Rose Kennedy

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
‐‐ Hjalmar Schacht

It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.
‐‐ Ma Jun

It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
‐‐ Martin Fleischmann

It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.
‐‐ James Bovard

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith