It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
‐‐ Gerd von Rundstedt
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
‐‐ John Dryden
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
‐‐ Gerrit Smith
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
‐‐ Carl Clinton Van Doren
It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.
‐‐ Vicky McClure
It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.
‐‐ Rick Warren
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
‐‐ Luigi Pirandello
It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.
‐‐ Martin Rees
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
‐‐ Robert Byrd
It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.
‐‐ George W. Romney
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
‐‐ Samuel Alexander
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
‐‐ Lascelles Abercrombie
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
‐‐ Mia Hamm
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
‐‐ A. A. Milne
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
‐‐ Petrarch
It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.
‐‐ Frank Dobson
It is more important to be a personality than a person who is in a political party.
‐‐ Milos Zeman
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
‐‐ Alfred Eisenstaedt
It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.
‐‐ Andrew Weil
It is more important to engage the public positively with choice and competition to everyone than to be directed into a benefit for a minority.
‐‐ Andrew Lansley
It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
‐‐ Valeria Mazza
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
‐‐ Hippocrates
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
‐‐ Arthur Smith
It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.
‐‐ Johannes Stark
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
‐‐ Francis Beaumont
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
‐‐ Pericles
It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.
‐‐ Henry J. Heinz
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
‐‐ Jackie Mason
It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.
‐‐ Frank Miller
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
‐‐ Confucius
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
‐‐ Philip Schaff
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
‐‐ Frederick William Robertson
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.
‐‐ David Josiah Brewer
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
‐‐ George Edmund Street
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
‐‐ Victor Hugo
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
‐‐ Kent Nerburn
It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
‐‐ Alec Issigonis
It is much easier to fight through this thing called life with someone, as opposed to fighting alone. I absolutely want to be a wife and to come home to somebody who I know adores me.
‐‐ LisaRaye McCoy-Misick