All Quotes

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
‐‐ Thucydides

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
‐‐ Loren Eiseley

It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
‐‐ Alva Myrdal

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.
‐‐ Robert Nozick

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'
‐‐ Dario Fo

It is from Shiith Ibn Adam that all humankind today is said to descend. It is also said that Balkh, the 'Mother of All Cities' as the first Arabs called it, a city once greater than Babylon and lovelier than Nineveh, is where Shiith died and was buried.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
‐‐ Kamisese Mara

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

It is frustrating, but all I can do is just keep winning, and hopefully, people will stand up and take notice eventually.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?'
‐‐ Emily Browning

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun.
‐‐ Richard DeVos

It is fun to do the one-off guest stars on stuff.
‐‐ David Denman

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
‐‐ Liam Neeson

It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi

It is fun to smash guitars.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.
‐‐ Penelope Spheeris

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
‐‐ Murray Kempton

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.
‐‐ Artie Lange

It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.
‐‐ Giles Duley

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
‐‐ Bill Hader

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

It is funny what a year can do.
‐‐ Victor Cruz

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
‐‐ Carl Andre

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
‐‐ Charles Erwin Wilson

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
‐‐ Maxfield Parrish

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
‐‐ Pliny the Elder

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
‐‐ Richard Whately

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.
‐‐ Chris Hayes

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
‐‐ Robert Mondavi

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.
‐‐ Bruno Walter

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
‐‐ Jerry Falwell

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
‐‐ Democritus

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.
‐‐ Claude Nicollier

It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.
‐‐ Sean Combs

It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.
‐‐ Nelson Piquet

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.
‐‐ Amanda Holden