All Quotes

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
‐‐ Stockwell Day

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
‐‐ Harry Browne

It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
‐‐ Nancy Reagan

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
‐‐ Robert Robinson

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
‐‐ Billy Graham

It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
‐‐ Safak Pavey

It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
‐‐ Robert E. Lee

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
‐‐ Max Nordau

It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
‐‐ Edward E. Barnard

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
‐‐ Nicholas A. Christakis

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
‐‐ Joseph Brodsky

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
‐‐ John Holmes

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
‐‐ Horace Mann

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
‐‐ Michelangelo

It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
‐‐ Anna Wickham

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
‐‐ Dan Flavin

It is what it is, it is what you make it.
‐‐ James Durbin

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
‐‐ Vaclav Klaus

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
‐‐ Claude Bernard

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.
‐‐ Cilla Black

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.
‐‐ Laetitia Casta

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
‐‐ John Osborne

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
‐‐ Chris Van Hollen

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
‐‐ Brigham Young

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
‐‐ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
‐‐ Roger Babson

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
‐‐ Paramahansa Yogananda

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.
‐‐ Henry Addington

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.
‐‐ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
‐‐ Kamisese Mara