I Quotes
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“It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.”
“It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
“It is not important WHO I am. It is important WHERE I am because that makes me WHAT I am.”
“It is not important who you are; what is important is what you have done to change humanity for the better.”
“It is not impossible; it will not cost you anything for soul-realization. Let us stop taking rebirth and enter Heaven permanently.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“It is not impossible to live in love, with love, for love and then become love.”
“It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.”
“It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.”
“It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.”
“It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not but adapt in view of my different way of looking at things, that questions should arise as to whether I should go back on the principles of the Roosevelt administration.... I have a government of limited power under a Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Now, if that is reactionary, then I am a reactionary.”
“It is not in a woman's best interest to rule man. I don't believe any good women would want that position." - Ayn Rand”
“It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man's world; it is in the possession of herself, the ownership and effective control of her own body, her seperateness and distinctness, the integrity of her body as hers, not his. Prostitution may be against the written law, but no prostitute has defied the prerogatives or power of men as a class through prostitution. No prostitute provides any model for freedom or action in a world of freedom that can be used with intelligence and integrity by a woman; the model exists to entice counterfeit female sexual revolutionaries, gullible liberated girls, and to serve the men who enjoy them.”
“It is not, in Calvin’s view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin.”
“It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.”
“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”
Source: The Second Sex
“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”
“It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.”
“It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.”
“It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.”
Source: Thoughts
“It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.
But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.”
Source: The Girl from the Well
“It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.”
“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.”
Source: Collected Writings
“It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.”
“It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.”
“It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.”
“It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as a nation proud of its immense diversity.”
“It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.”
“It is not in our power to determine our destiny.”
“It is not in Our [the Self's] control to acquire or to renounce. They are both [activities] of the non-Self and are subject to external factors such as scientific circumstantial evidences.”
Source: Adjust Everywhere
“It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.”
Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life
“It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.”
Source: Unseemly Science
“It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.”
“It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.”
Source: Speaking Frankl.y
“It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.”
“It is not in the mind that the heart finds its rest; but it is in the heart (or rather where the depths of the heart meet the depths of God) that the mind finds the rest for which it is searching.”
Source: Prayer and Holiness: The Icon of Man Renewed in God
“It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.”
“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”
“It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.”
“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.”
“It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume
“It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply of other commodities more urgently demanded by consumers. The authority may reduce the price of one commodity only by raising the prices of others.”
Source: Omnipotent Government
“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
“It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“It is not in the storm or in the strife
We feel benumbed and wish to be nor more,
But in the after-silence on the shore
When all is lost except a little life.”
“It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.”