All Quotes

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.
‐‐ Tan Le

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
‐‐ Helena Blavatsky

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
‐‐ Roman Jakobson

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
‐‐ Joseph de Maistre

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.
‐‐ Gary Neville

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
‐‐ Dolley Madison

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
‐‐ Ferdinand de Saussure

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness.
‐‐ Reed Hundt

It is one of the great ironies of the American war in Iraq - was that the guys who really got the most out of it were the Iranians. And they have us to thank for that. Yeah, I mean we basically put Maliki in power in 2006, but he has been - he's really not a friend of the United States. He's a friend of the Iranian regime.
‐‐ Dexter Filkins

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
‐‐ James Bovard

It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.
‐‐ Sylvia Fraser

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
‐‐ Vance Havner

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.
‐‐ John Anderson

It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
‐‐ Francis Crick

It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
‐‐ Alfred Adler

It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
‐‐ Angela Ahrendts

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
‐‐ Anatole Broyard

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
‐‐ Hans-Georg Gadamer

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of the sternest judgments confronting a human being after death that insofar as he is himself evil, he can see only what resembles himself because he can reproduce in his own being only the physiognomy of other evil people.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
‐‐ Voltaire

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
‐‐ Frank Gaffney

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
‐‐ Melvin Maddocks

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
‐‐ Arthur Eddington

It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.
‐‐ Kai Bird

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.
‐‐ Pamela Stephenson

It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.
‐‐ Chris Kilham

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
‐‐ John Norman

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
‐‐ Paul Strand

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.
‐‐ Jennie Finch

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
‐‐ John Burnham Schwartz

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.
‐‐ Rihanna