All Quotes

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

It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
‐‐ Henry Lawson

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
‐‐ Abu Bakr

It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
‐‐ Halldor Laxness

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.
‐‐ Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
‐‐ Jean Racine

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.
‐‐ George Eastman

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
‐‐ John Crowe Ransom

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
‐‐ James F. Cooper

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
‐‐ Henry Moore

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.
‐‐ James E. Faust

It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
‐‐ Karen Duffy

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.
‐‐ David Blunkett

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, the life and character of its justices should be the objects of constant watchfulness by all, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism.
‐‐ David Josiah Brewer

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.
‐‐ Lu Wei

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.
‐‐ Corin Nemec

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
‐‐ Douglas Hyde

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
‐‐ Jerome K. Jerome

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

It is a must to believe in one's product.
‐‐ Dietrich Mateschitz

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies.
‐‐ Max Heindel

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
‐‐ Irwin Edman

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
‐‐ Jack White

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
‐‐ Gavid Hood

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
‐‐ George Eliot

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
‐‐ Michael East

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
‐‐ Elizabeth I

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
‐‐ Roger Zelazny

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy