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It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

– Hank AaronRate it:

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

– Douglas HostadterRate it:

It turns out that the economics of the world is ideally parimutuel.

– Link StarbureiyRate it:

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

– Friedrich August von HayekRate it:

It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

– Alvaro de SolvaRate it:

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

– AnonymousRate it:

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

– Mark TwainRate it:

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

– Pope Pius XIRate it:

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

– Dame Rose MacaulayRate it:

It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.

– George Orwell, "1984", first sentenceRate it:

It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

– Edward Bulwer-LyttonRate it:

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

– Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul CliffordRate it:

It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves.

– FelthamRate it:

It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty.

– AdvanceRate it:

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

– Jackson BrowneRate it:

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

– Henry KissingerRate it:

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

– Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.Rate it:

It was a pleasure working with Aishwarya in The Last Legion (2007), and her fans are in for a big surprise. She is an excellent and outstanding actor. She is a shining example of beauty from India, and I'm sure we will be seeing her in more Hollywood movies real soon.

– Ben KingsleyRate it:

It was a real boost. It would have been a turbo boost had she been in the evening debate, but a boost is a boost nevertheless. She’s put herself in the game and that’s what you need to do six months before the first contest.

– David PaleologosRate it:

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'

– AthenusRate it:

It was a Sunday afternoon -- a very sunny day in summer. The weather was beautiful. I knocked on Anne's door, but no one was there,

– Matthew J. PerryRate it:

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

– Kurt VonnegutRate it:

It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.

– Charles DickensRate it:

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