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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:

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

– W. C. FieldsRate it:

It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.

– Dr. Jose P. RizalRate it:

It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power.

– Ray DickinsonRate it:

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

– George Pratt ShultzRate it:

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

– Leonard BernsteinRate it:

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.

– A. M. RosenthalRate it:

it was bad said, but it was bad meant.

– Severin MeilandRate it:

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

– O. HenryRate it:

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

– HomerRate it:

it was clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one which I feel compelled to define with brutal candor: how to kill him without getting into trouble... I had no qualms about causing the death of a fellow from whose nonexistence the college would benefit

– Kenneth J DoverRate it:

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

– May SartonRate it:

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