I Quotes
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“It does not pay away a penny from you to say "am sorry", "I won't do that again"! It does not take away your integrity to appreciate the very little that you have obtained from someone, even if it's not much! True humility speaks "little is enough if God is in it.”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.”
“It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.”
Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems
“It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.”
“It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.”
“It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?”
Source: Candide
“It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.”
Source: Notes Explanatory and Practical on the Gospels: Matthew Ans Mark
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
“It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.”
“It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!”
“It does not seem a year
Since last we sent to you
Our wishes for your special day
And all that you would do.
And once again we wish you
All joyous things and more
A day that's filled with happiness
And memories to store.
Then when you think in years to come
Of Birthdays long ago
You may remember fondly
How much we love you so.
So have a day of pleasure
Do things that make you smile
For .............. you are treasured
Today and all the while.”
“It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do.”
“It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.”
Source: The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
“It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.”
Source: Systematic Theology
“It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.”
Source: The Philosophy of Modern Art: Collected Essays
“It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.”
Source: Life, Letters, and Journals
“It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.”
“It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.”
Source: The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton
“It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.”
“It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.”
“It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.”
“It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.”
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks
“It does not speak well of us, when we begin to accept loss without grieving.”
Source: Sinful in Satin
“It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655
“It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?”
“It does not strike me as a good thing that the only person we can be so, so close to is the person we're dating.”
“It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.”
“It does not take a great deal of imagination or courage to believe that God is on your side when you are prospering or winning; it takes a great deal of courage and imagination to believe that God is on your side when you are suffering or losing.”
“It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice.The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole.The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it.And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.”
“It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
“It does not take a man to stand with the strong, it takes a man to stand with the weak and oppose the strong.”
“It does not take a scholar, David, to know such saints were made by other saints in centuries to come as actors and actresses chosen for a Passion Play in a country village.”
Source: The Vampire Armand
“It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.”
Source: The Rose & the Dagger
“It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.”
“It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand.”
Source: Light in August
“It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.”
Source: Heaven
“It does not take many words to tell the truth”
“It does not take money to make money.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.”
“It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word of Arabic to write a book like the one I wrote.”
“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”
“It does not take the striking pose of a high-fashion model or the strict stance of someone in uniform to earn respect and admiration.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.”
“It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.”
“It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general.”
“It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.”