All Quotes

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
‐‐ Dale Turner

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.
‐‐ Goran Persson

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
‐‐ Katharine Lee Bates

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.
‐‐ George W. S. Trow

It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.
‐‐ Penelope Spheeris

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
‐‐ S. I. Hayakawa

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.
‐‐ Herb Elliott

It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affected, that General Motors not go bankrupt.
‐‐ Carol Loomis

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
‐‐ Carolyn Wells

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
‐‐ Donald McCaig

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
‐‐ Johann Most

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
‐‐ Allen West

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
‐‐ John Burroughs

It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
‐‐ Algernon Blackwood

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
‐‐ Guy de Maupassant

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
‐‐ Adam Braun

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
‐‐ Alexander Fleming

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
‐‐ Zelda Fitzgerald

It is the lot of man but once to die.
‐‐ Francis Quarles

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
‐‐ Oriana Fallaci

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
‐‐ Aristotle

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
‐‐ Clive Bell

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.
‐‐ Louis Sullivan

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
‐‐ Sophocles

It is the mind that makes the body.
‐‐ Sojourner Truth

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
‐‐ Edmund Spenser

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
‐‐ George Gissing

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
‐‐ Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
‐‐ James Taylor

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.
‐‐ Jayne Mansfield

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
‐‐ Dietrich Bonhoeffer