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It wasn't the colours, but the mindsets of the Egyptians that made them popular in previous and later generations.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

It wasn’t as dark and scary as they said... in fact it was kind of fun” -spoken at a graduation

– AnonomysRate it:

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

– Howard RuffRate it:

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

– Titus Maccius PlautusRate it:

It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. - from Pudd'nhead Wilson

– Mark TwainRate it:

It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

– Charles Haddon SpurgeonRate it:

It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.

– Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen PoeRate it:

It will be impossible for the human species to see the end of World War 3.

– Sipho P NkosiRate it:

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.

– James MadisonRate it:

It will be unwise to talk about the social and cultural influences without implementing the benefits of history.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are.

– T.S. EliotRate it:

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

– Samuel SmilesRate it:

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!

– Steve JobsRate it:

It will not be a surprise that what you have been sowing; you will have to reap only that; indeed, time neither forgets nor forgives.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe; Europe will be united by the Chinese.

– Charles De GaulleRate it:

It will set a good example for the common public if top policy makers, panelist, correspondents, editors, newsreader wear mandatory protection mask on their mouth all the time to stop the spread of virus.

– UnknownRate it:

It will take time to try to verify whether the government and its institutions are corrupt. The shortest path is to look only at its education system present in that state.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

– George W. FooteRate it:

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

– Jane AustenRate it:

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

– John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)Rate it:

It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself superior.

– Virginia WoolfRate it:

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

– John SteinbeckRate it:

It would be deemed foolish to repay a spiritual separation that Adam and Eve committed, with the death of the body only.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

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