All Quotes

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
‐‐ Ramakrishna

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

It is easy to write unthinking music.
‐‐ George Crumb

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
‐‐ Aeschylus

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
‐‐ John Holdren

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
‐‐ Saint-John Perse

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
‐‐ Brother Lawrence

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
‐‐ Joseph Stalin

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
‐‐ Learned Hand

It is entirely possible to present science accurately and have a hit show.
‐‐ Donna Nelson

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.
‐‐ John Griffin Carlisle

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.
‐‐ Raoul Vaneigem

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
‐‐ Boris Yeltsin

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
‐‐ Maurice Wilkins

It is essential for me to work with tools that are reliable and offer complete functionality, which is why I feel so confident about representing the Victorinox brand.
‐‐ Daniel Humm

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.
‐‐ Peter Jennings

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
‐‐ Chuck Schumer

It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew - secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing - fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
‐‐ Holly Near

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.
‐‐ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.
‐‐ Gwen Moore

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.
‐‐ Bill Scott

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
‐‐ Nelson Rockefeller

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.
‐‐ Tom Udall

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.
‐‐ Jim Sensenbrenner

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.
‐‐ Louise L. Hay

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
‐‐ Luis Barragan

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.
‐‐ Theresa May

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
‐‐ Bruce Beresford

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
‐‐ Dee Hock

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
‐‐ Samora Machel

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.
‐‐ Levi Woodbury

It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
‐‐ Steve Israel

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
‐‐ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi