I Quotes
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“It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.”
“It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.”
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
“It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.”
Source: The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies
“It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark
“It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen”
“It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.”
“It is not always wise to appear singular.”
“It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.”
“It is not always your fault when you experience a closed door. Sometimes, it is just the mighty Hand of God.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“It is not American Jews who have betrayed their Israeli cousins. It is the Netanyahu-led Israeli government that has betrayed Jews outside Israel, by aligning itself with nationalist parties in countries like Poland and Hungary, who are hostile to the ideals that make it possible for Jews in the diaspora to live free of persecution.”
Source: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
“It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.”
“It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.”
Source: The Samurai's Garden: A Novel
“It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.”
Source: The Case for Animal Rights
“It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.”
“It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.”
“It is not an artifice that the mind has added to human nature. The mind has added nothing to human nature. It is a violence from within that protects us from a
violence without It is the imagination pressing back
against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do wIth our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.”
“It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we'll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.”
“It is not an easy thing for certain men and women to remain hidden. However, they accomplish this in a variety of ways. Remember the story of the Sufi Master who deliberately passed wind to rid himself of students who were not there out of a love of Essence? Many stories such as this have been told.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.”
Source: The Far Pavilions
“It is not an easy thing to do [found the tone right away].”
“It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“It is not an event; it is a piece of news.”
“It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.”
Source: Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings
“It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract”
“It is not an investment if it destroys the planet”
“It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.”
“It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968”
Source: 1968: The Year that Rocked the World
“It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.”
Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West
“It is not Aphrodite but riotous Eros who is
playing like a child,
scuttling down across the tips of meadow ferns.
Please, do not crush them.”
“It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.”
“It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.”
Source: Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln
“It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.”
Source: Alfred Stieglitz
“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”
“It is not as common as female/male prostitution, but yes my friends and I had female clients. But this is a request that most girls are not willing to do. No, we never saw it as anything different, because if ladies were paying for an escort, they were still considered our clients, and they were treated as such.”
“It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.”
“It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.”
“It is not as if an 'I' exists independently over here and then simply loses a 'you' over there, especially if the attachment to 'you' is part of what composes who 'I' am. If I lose you, under these conditions, then I not only mourn the loss, but I become inscrutable to myself. Who 'am' I, without you? When we lose some of these ties by which we are constituted, we do not know who we are or what to do. On one level, I think I have lost 'you' only to discover that 'I' have gone missing as well. At another level, perhaps what I have lost 'in' you, that for which I have no vocabulary, is a relationality that is composed neither exclusively of myself nor you, but is to be conceived as *the tie* by which those terms are differentiated and related.”
Source: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
“It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.”
Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.”
Source: Aequanimitas
“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”
“It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.”
“It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.”
Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.”
Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”
“It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.”
“It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“It is not at all a fit place for you," said Clementina.
"Gently, my lady. It is a greater than thou that sets the bounds of my habitation. Perhaps He may give me a palace one day. But the Father has decreed for His children that they shall know the thing that is neither their ideal nor His. All in His time, my lady. He has much to teach us.”
Source: The Marquis' Secret