All Quotes

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
‐‐ Joseph Hume

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
‐‐ Felix Frankfurter

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

It is appalling that President Obama would cut off federal health care dollars to Florida in an effort to force our state further into Obamacare.
‐‐ Rick Scott

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.
‐‐ Aly Khan

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
‐‐ Max Eastman

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
‐‐ John Henry Newman

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.
‐‐ Joseph J. Ellis

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
‐‐ Frederick Buechner

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
‐‐ Charles Williams

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
‐‐ David Wroblewski

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
‐‐ Knut Hamsun

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.
‐‐ David Graeber

It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.
‐‐ Martin Rees

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
‐‐ Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder

It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.
‐‐ Neil Kurshan

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
‐‐ Abu Bakr

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.
‐‐ Friedrich List

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.
‐‐ Prince Charles

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
‐‐ Chris Van Hollen

It is beautiful in Vancouver; let's face it. I mean, you have the ocean. There's mountains.
‐‐ Eric Close

It is beautiful to be what you are.
‐‐ Jean Paul Gaultier

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
‐‐ Arthur Henderson

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.
‐‐ Alice Walker

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
‐‐ George Gissing

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
‐‐ Lalu Prasad Yadav

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.
‐‐ Richard Parks Bland

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley