All Quotes

It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
‐‐ Benjamin Britten

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
‐‐ Amos Oz

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
‐‐ Richard Le Gallienne

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
‐‐ Mark Twain

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.
‐‐ Edward Carpenter

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.
‐‐ Frederick Soddy

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
‐‐ Greg LeMond

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
‐‐ Eugene McCarthy

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
‐‐ Voltaire

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.
‐‐ Richard Neal

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
‐‐ Harold Brodkey

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.
‐‐ Heinz Guderian

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.
‐‐ Mark Udall

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.
‐‐ James Lafferty

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.
‐‐ Angie Stone

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
‐‐ Elon Musk

It is delicate being my age and trying to do all the regular teenager stuff, and then having that in the spotlight.
‐‐ Lily-Rose Depp

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
‐‐ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
‐‐ Robert D. Kaplan

It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend.
‐‐ Mila Kunis

It is difficult, but intriguing, to imagine seeing the world as a fly might. First, flies don't have nearly the same visual resolution that we do... so you have to imagine a fuzzier image. Second, fly eyes are faster than our own and are very sensitive to motion.
‐‐ Michael Dickinson

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
‐‐ Thomas Hardy

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
‐‐ Bob Barr

It is difficult not to write satire.
‐‐ Juvenal

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.
‐‐ Eugenie Anderson

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.
‐‐ Koo Stark

It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.
‐‐ David Whyte

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.
‐‐ Dominika Cibulkova

It is difficult to convey the excitement I first felt when it was revealed that His Holiness Pope Francis was invited to Washington D.C. to address the world from the floor of the House of Representatives.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
‐‐ Immanuel Velikovsky

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.
‐‐ John Glover

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.
‐‐ Gherman Titov

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
‐‐ Voltaire

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
‐‐ Upton Sinclair

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
‐‐ Lisa Gardner

It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.
‐‐ Kenny Rogers