Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Saxton

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

Margaret Mahy

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

Plutarch

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Howard Baker

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Susan Hampshire

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

Robert Menzies

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

Neil Kurshan

It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.

Herman Melville

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Pearl White

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

Edmond H. Fischer

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

Eugenie Anderson

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.

Joseph Stalin

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Thucydides

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Nina Jacobson

It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.

Tom Felton

It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.

Samantha Fox

It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

Vincent Kartheiser

It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead.

Pat Tiberi

It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

David Foster Wallace

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

Tuesday Weld

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

Ralph Chaplin

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

Samantha Morton

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

Patrick Lussier

It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

Katherine Center

It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to the garden. We have hummingbirds, tons of bees, and many monarch butterflies. The kids love it! Though we're very laissez-faire with the garden and never put chemicals on it or even water it much!

Michelle Waterson

It's great to see there's a push behind women's MMA because everyone who's involved in women's MMA is very passionate about it.

Stephen Colletti

It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.

Harold Hamm

It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

Steve Wilkos

It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.

Buddy Rice

It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.

Quico Canseco

It should not be the government running the economy.

F. H. Bradley

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Gregory Nunn

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Yuri Milner

It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Karin Fossum

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

Robert South

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Zhou Yongkang

It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

Akio Toyoda

It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.

Thomas Kuhn

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.

Frederick Sanger

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

David H. Murdock

It is never too late to change the way you eat - once you do, your body will thank you with a longer and healthier life.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Aly Khan

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

Luis Gutierrez

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

Christopher Alexander

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

Iain McGilchrist

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

Natan Sharansky

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

David Allan Coe

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

George William Curtis

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.