I Quotes
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“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general.”
“It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.”
“It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.”
“It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.”
“It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where they live. I want completing the single market to be our driving mission.”
“It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.”
“It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.”
“It is nonsense to your ears, but the more you listen, the clearer it is that not only are you all from different places but also different times, different eras, and it strikes you as notable, special even, that you are all gathered here in this place outside of time.”
Source: The Spear Cuts Through Water
“It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.”
“It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it's normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!”
“It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.”
“It is normal to be nervous.”
“It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.”
“It is normal to feel alone at the start of any journey. It’s the people who you meet along your travels that make the trip more interesting.”
“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“It is normal to have enemies,
common to have acquaintances,
and unusual to have friends.”
“It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.”
“It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.”
“It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.”
“It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“It is not a bad idea to connect the heart and mind altogether.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.”
Source: The Shooting Party
“It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.”
“It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.”
Source: Seven Gothic Tales
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
“It is not a bad thing, this grief. It is a motivator for connecting with other mothers and families, a guide for compassion and understanding; it carries me across thresholds to a newer appreciation for the little joys in life. At times, it brings me to my knees--not in defeat, but in the cleansing tears and soul stricken prayers of a woman who is stronger than she ever has been.”
Source: There Is Joy To Be Found Here; a writing journal for parents of children with special needs
“It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.”
Source: The Moviegoer
“It is not a band. It is an idea.”
“It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.”
Source: Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society
“it is not a calculated risk if you haven’t calculated it.”
“It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.”
“It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.”
“It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.”
“It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.”
“It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.”
“It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.”
“It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.”
“It is not a cleansing poop unless you use the whole toilet roll!”
“It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.”
“It is not a crime to be a people pleaser.”
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
“It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.”
“It is not a desire to play games: it is an urge, a yearning, an addiction.”
Source: A Bestiary
“It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.”
“It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.”
“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”
“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.”