All Quotes

It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.
‐‐ Mike Pence

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.
‐‐ Joyce Cary

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke

It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
‐‐ Vernon Howard

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

It is a truly powerful phenomenon when a brand makes a stand for what it believes in.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.
‐‐ Jon Evans

It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
‐‐ Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
‐‐ Helen Fielding

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye.
‐‐ Stella Young

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.
‐‐ Jane Ridley

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
‐‐ James Madison

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.
‐‐ Paul Singer

It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
‐‐ Luke Evans

It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.
‐‐ Alexei Mordashov

It is a very brave choice to go against traditional medicine and embrace the alternative route. It's easier to try the traditional route and then, if it fails, go to the alternatives, but often it can be too late.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.
‐‐ Linda M. Godwin

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
‐‐ Josh Billings

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
‐‐ Allison Janney

It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller

It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
‐‐ Thomas Reed

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
‐‐ James Baldwin

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
‐‐ Joseph Roux

It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.
‐‐ George Pataki

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
‐‐ Estelle Morris

It is a very wide range of people that we get for the show.
‐‐ Humphrey Lyttelton

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
‐‐ Helen Dunmore

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.
‐‐ Troy Vincent

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
‐‐ Otto Schily

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
‐‐ Taylor Caldwell

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell