All Quotes

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
‐‐ Brad Henry

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.
‐‐ Gordon Neufeld

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
‐‐ Paul Conrad

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
‐‐ James Agee

It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
‐‐ Chauncey Depew

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
‐‐ Manfred von Richthofen

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.
‐‐ Shane Leslie

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
‐‐ Vernor Vinge

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
‐‐ Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
‐‐ George Whitefield

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
‐‐ Comte de Lautreamont

It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.
‐‐ George Miller

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.
‐‐ Roger Goodell

It is a privilege to serve the country in the United States Senate and serve the people of New Hampshire. I wake up every day with a sense of purpose.
‐‐ Kelly Ayotte

It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a movie people should be watching and not denigrating.
‐‐ Scott Ritter

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
‐‐ James Taylor

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
‐‐ James Allen

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
‐‐ Aeschylus

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
‐‐ Dorothy Dix

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
‐‐ Thomas Reid

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
‐‐ Robert Ballard

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.
‐‐ Lamar Alexander

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.
‐‐ Mike Pence

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
‐‐ Anne Sullivan

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.
‐‐ Andre Rieu

It is a real pleasure to collaborate with Frida Giannini and Gucci to celebrate one of the House's most elegant symbols: the horsebit.
‐‐ Charlotte Casiraghi

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.
‐‐ Mario Vazquez

It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.
‐‐ Chris Stapleton

It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.
‐‐ John Reid

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.
‐‐ Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that we can never read or hear of the labors which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ performed, without taking pleasure in it, while, on the other hand, there is nothing so interesting in the life and history of any other individual but what by hearing or reading it time and time again we become tired of it.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant