All Quotes

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
‐‐ John Buchanan Robinson

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
‐‐ Barack Obama

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him.
‐‐ Tony Orlando

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
‐‐ Marguerite Duras

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
‐‐ David Stern

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
‐‐ George Lucas

It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
‐‐ Alek Wek

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.
‐‐ Jenna Elfman

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
‐‐ Joshua Slocum

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.
‐‐ Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

It was the oddest feeling. I thought Laci Peterson needed me; I thought she was counting on me to bring her and her baby home.
‐‐ Amber Frey

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
‐‐ Doris Day

It was the part of Gambian culture where they give each other advice a lot, how they're always comparing things in order to get a message across... that really influenced the way I write.
‐‐ Seinabo Sey

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
‐‐ Douglas Trumbull

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.
‐‐ Jonathan Powell

It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.
‐‐ Aaron Paul

It was the roughest time in my life. Connie helped me through it.
‐‐ Maury Povich

It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
‐‐ Julius Streicher

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
‐‐ Robert Byrd

It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers.
‐‐ Simon Schama

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
‐‐ Ian Fleming

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
‐‐ Louis Sullivan

It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.
‐‐ Archie Panjabi

It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.
‐‐ Laurie Graham

It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.
‐‐ Hermann Eilts

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'
‐‐ Tove Jansson

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
‐‐ Julius Caesar

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.
‐‐ Paul Lynde

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
‐‐ Laurence Housman

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.
‐‐ Eric Allin Cornell

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.
‐‐ Mink Stole

It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly.
‐‐ Evanna Lynch

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
‐‐ Samuel P. Huntington

It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with myself.
‐‐ Seth Grahame-Smith

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.
‐‐ Sonia Gandhi

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.
‐‐ Tre Cool

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
‐‐ Harper Lee

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
‐‐ Elijah Cummings

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
‐‐ Hans Blix

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
‐‐ Naomi Watts

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.
‐‐ Melissa Etheridge