I Quotes
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“It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.”
“It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.”
“It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.”
“It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others. They rant. They lecture. They scold. This incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.”
“It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.”
Source: Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II
“It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.”
“It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.”
“It is not advisable to hasten development, because everything needs time. Patience, perseverance and tenacity are fundamental conditions of the development. The pains taken in one's development will be amply rewarded.”
“It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“It is not advised to bathe in man-made environmental radiation.”
“It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.”
Source: The Last Four Things
“It is not against the law to drink in public places, and you will see people drinking in parks or by the lake. The Swiss have a more relaxed attitude to alcohol consumption. From the age of 16, young people can be served beer or wine in a bar.”
Source: The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths
“It is not age but experience that brings wisdom.”
“It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.”
“It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.”
“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".”
“It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.”
“It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies whether regression is a prominent part of autism, but many people feel that it's very hard to diagnose autism before you can begin really talking in detail with a child.”
“It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.”
“It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves”
Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“It is not aloofness, superiority. It’s a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn’t want to gather close her comrades?”
Source: Dare Me
“It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.”
Source: On photography
“It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.”
Source: Pavarotti, My World
“It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.”
“It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?”
Source: Reflections
“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.”
“It is not always easy for a young player to come through at the club level, because all the clubs are able to buy for 20 million or 30 million and it is hard for young English talent to come through and to get recognition and be able to be part of the squad or start playing.”
“It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.”
“It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.”
Source: The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995
“It is not always easy, for a woman alone.”
“It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.”
“It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.”
“It is not always good to be right, but it is always wonderful to be kind”
“It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.”
Source: Memoirs of Childhood and Youth
“It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.”
“It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”
Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.”
“It is not always possible to forgive oneself. And sometimes you make a choice to do something, knowing that you must do it, and that forgiveness is impossible.”
Source: Frankissstein: A Love Story
“It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own”
Source: The Second World War: The hinge of fate
“It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.”
Source: Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)
“It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.”
“It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.”
“It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.”