I Quotes
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“It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.”
Source: The King's English
“It is not eyes that are blinded, but blinded are the hearts which are within the breasts. (22:46)”
“It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.”
“It is not failure to fail.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“It is not fair that I continue to get the shitty sides on both ends of the stick.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952
“It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.”
Source: The William Carlos Williams Reader
“It is not fair to be treated this way.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.”
“It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.”
“It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.”
“It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.”
“It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.”
“It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“It is not fashionable where I am not.”
Source: Letters of Dorothea, Princess Lieven, During Her Residence in London, 1812-1834
“It is not feasible to influence our existence if we do not know what we wish to obtain from the world.”
“It is not fiction. It is history. And both their histories match now.”
Source: Sex Media
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
“It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.”
Source: An Exposition of the New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents ...
“It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good.”
“It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”
“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
“It is not flippant to see a painting in a predicament.”
Source: The Matisse Stories
“It is not fools that I seek to address.”
Source: My Years with Ayn Rand
“It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.”
Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience
“It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.”
“It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.”
“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond
“It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.”
Source: The Ambiguities
“It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.”
“It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.”
“It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
the desire that perpetually burns within us
for an infinite and perfect good.”
“It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.”
“It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?”
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
“It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.”
Source: Women and Economics
“It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“It is not for nothing that one has been a philologist, perhaps one is a philologist still, that is to say, a teacher of slow reading”
Source: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that
great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.”
“It is not for nothing that that vivacious lady is standing up there with the torch of liberty in her hand, as a beacon to the whole world - take a look at the world through her eyes, if you really want to see something – and you won’t just see scenery – you’ll see the whole parade of what humans have carved out for themselves after centuries of fighting – fighting so they could stand on their own two feet, free and decent, no matter their race, religion and creed.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,” said the Voice...
The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, was purely terrestrial. The pattern is so large that within the little frame of earthly experience there appear pieces of it between which we can see no connection, and other pieces between which we can. Hence we rightly, for our sue, distinguish the accidental from the essential. But step outside that frame and the distinction drops down into the void, fluttering useless wings. He had been forced out of the frame, caught up into the larger pattern… “My name also is Ransom,” said the Voice.”
Source: Perelandra
“It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.”
Source: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Third Edition
“It is not for such remains as any of the above that a plea is needed; they have powerful friends, and perhaps no enemies. But there is another class of architecture that is fast fading away, and that a class which has brightened many a landscape and figured cheerfully in many a tale.”
Source: Ancient Streets and Homesteads of England
“It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.”
Source: Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening
“It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.”
“It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.”
“It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
possibilities and grander heights.”
Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays