Quotes 3341 till 3360 of 10005.
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Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Source: Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859) -
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.
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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
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If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
Source: In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179 -
If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.
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If a house was on fire there could be but two parties. One in favor of putting out the fire. Another in favor of the house burning.
Source: Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, 5 December 1859 -
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli -
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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