It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
‐‐ Katherine Paterson
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
‐‐ Renata Adler
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
‐‐ Thorstein Veblen
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
‐‐ Jerome K. Jerome
It is always the case that when something emerges - which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different - then people say, 'She hasn't told us this yet' and 'She hasn't told us that yet.' I don't know - maybe there are other things I didn't talk about because no one ever asked me.
‐‐ Angela Merkel
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
‐‐ Karl Barth
It is always the genuine Teemu Selanne that you're seeing. He never puts on a show. It is Teemu. And that's what we love about him.
‐‐ Henry Samueli
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
‐‐ Robert Frank
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
‐‐ Maurice Chevalier
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
‐‐ Amelia Barr
It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.
‐‐ James Cash Penney
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde
It is always the village women who drive these things.
‐‐ Stephen Lewis
It is always tough to win every booth right across the electorate because there are different issues in different parts of the electorate.
‐‐ Denis Napthine
It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience.
‐‐ Dave Haywood
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
‐‐ Russell Lynes
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
‐‐ Jonas Salk
It is always your next move.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
‐‐ David Bowie
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
‐‐ Michael Arlen
It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.
‐‐ Frank Woolley
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
‐‐ Adam Derek Scott
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell
It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.
‐‐ Gil Gerard
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
‐‐ Ted Cruz
It is amazing that you now have a bus company in Ballymena producing world class buses for Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Las Vegas.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness
It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac
It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
‐‐ James Bovard
It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
‐‐ Emily Robison
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
‐‐ Harry S Truman
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
‐‐ John Quincy Adams
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
‐‐ Hans Kung
It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.
‐‐ Monica Crowley
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
‐‐ Jean Reno
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
‐‐ Thomas Paine
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
‐‐ Alan Rickman
It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
‐‐ Lori Singer
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
‐‐ Jarrett J. Krosoczka
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan