All Quotes

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
‐‐ Peter Agre

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.
‐‐ Mercedes McCambridge

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
‐‐ J. Maarten Troost

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.
‐‐ Giorgio Napolitano

It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
‐‐ George Santayana

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.
‐‐ Sean MacBride

It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
‐‐ Pauline Phillips

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
‐‐ Ted Kulongoski

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
‐‐ Dave Barry

It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.
‐‐ Ana Beatriz Barros

It is a shame that homebrew development can't be officially sanctioned and supported, because it would be a wonderful platform for a modern generation of programmers to be able to get a real feel for low level design work, to be contrasted with the high level web and application work that so many entry level people start with.
‐‐ John Carmack

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
‐‐ Robert Bork

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.
‐‐ Michael Behe

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
‐‐ David Bailey

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
‐‐ Virgil Goode

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
‐‐ Matthew Hale

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
‐‐ Jeff Zucker

It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.
‐‐ Philip Hammond

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
‐‐ Robert Menzies

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
‐‐ Jose Marti

It is a sin to be poor.
‐‐ Charles Fillmore

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
‐‐ Chris Patten

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor

It is a startling and solemnizing fact that even as late as the twentieth century, the Great Command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all mankind is still so largely unfulfilled.
‐‐ John Mott

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
‐‐ Moliere

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
‐‐ J. T. Walsh

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
‐‐ Manmohan Singh

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
‐‐ Greil Marcus

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
‐‐ James Joyce

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
‐‐ Anna Held

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
‐‐ Helen Keller

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.
‐‐ Ray Stevenson

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.
‐‐ Saul Perlmutter