All Quotes

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
‐‐ Robert Purvis

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
‐‐ Margaret of Valois

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
‐‐ Henry Lawson

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
‐‐ Noah Webster

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
‐‐ Laurence Housman

It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster.
‐‐ Muriel Rukeyser

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
‐‐ Auberon Herbert

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.
‐‐ Charles Comiskey

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
‐‐ Bill Owens

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
‐‐ Rebecca West

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
‐‐ Earl Warren

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.
‐‐ Nicholas A. Christakis

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
‐‐ Benito Mussolini

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
‐‐ Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
‐‐ Sophocles

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
‐‐ Florenz Ziegfeld

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.
‐‐ Eric Holder

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
‐‐ John Millington Synge

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
‐‐ Joseph Prince

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald

It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
‐‐ George Saintsbury

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
‐‐ J. Reuben Clark

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
‐‐ Oswald Chambers

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
‐‐ David Copperfield

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
‐‐ Truman Capote

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
‐‐ Adrian Cronauer

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
‐‐ Robert South

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

It is the young people in whom I place my confidence because of their competence, because of their enthusiasm, because of their capacity to meet the frontiers that are changing every week.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover