I Quotes
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“It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)”
Source: My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism
“It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.”
“It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“It is not my province to show how brave it was for a great, strong nation to quell a riot caused by the dancing of a few 'bucks' – for civilized soldiers to slaughter indiscriminately, Indian women and children. Doubtless it was brave, for so public opinion tells us, and it cannot err.”
Source: Wynema: A Child of the Forest
“It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.”
“It is not my purpose here to document the destruction caused by war [...] The point is to ask ourselves why these accounts have not had greater effect. [...] Why is it that many of us are deeply moved by visual art, fiction, and firsthand accounts of destruction and yet accept war as a means of resolving conflict or defending ourselves?”
Source: Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
“It is not my shit, nor is it my problem. I am free and loving it! In that order!”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.”
“It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.”
“It is not my wish to stay home so much that I become isolated, but to use the comforting influence of my home to restore and gather myself after each step I take in my expanding ability to participate in the world.”
Source: Daybreak: Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse
“It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102”
Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.”
“It is not my world, it is my universe.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.”
“It is not natural for human beings to NOT grow to the next stage of life when they should.”
Source: Know What Matters
“It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.”
“It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.”
“It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.”
“It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.”
“It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.”
“It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.”
Source: Luther's Table-talk
“It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.”
“It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions”
“It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”
“It is not necessary for the result to be in your favour even if you
are right.”
Source: A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
“It is not necessary, most of the time, to direct an individual into this or that relationship or situation – components of his or her personality, aspects of themselves they may not be aware of at all, will push them, by the laws of attraction or repulsion, into the places, or near to the people, who will benefit them. Very often two people, or a group of people, may meet in forceful and beneficial situations, and onlookers may even cry out that this must be the result of a ‘miracle’ or ‘divine intervention’. The couple, or group, have been drawn to each other sometimes across oceans, or overcoming ‘impossible’ hazards, because they need each other – need to learn from each other. But often this process, to the uninstructed onlooker, seems like a meaningless or wasted conflict, or a stalemate, or even damaging.
“And of course sometimes such encounters are indeed mistaken, wasteful, damaging. How could it be otherwise on poor Shikasta, in its extremity, at the end of the long processes that have brought it to such a shameful state?”
Source: Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
“It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them capable of both. It will be sufficient, then, if, after infants have grown up, they exhibit the power of their baptism." - John Calvin”
“It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.”
Source: Truth
“It is not necessary that we should discover new ideas in our meditation. Often this only diverts us and feeds our vanity. It is sufficient if the Word, as we read and understand it, penetrates and dwells within us. As Mary "pondered in her heart" the things that were told by the shepherds, as what we have casually overheard follows us for a long time, sticks in our mind, occupies, disturbs, or delights us, without our ability to do anything about it, so in meditation God's Word seeks to enter in and remain with us. It strives to stir us, to work and operate in us, so that we shall not get away from it the whole day long. Then it will do its work in us, often without our being conscious of it.
Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but if it does not, it is not a sign that the meditation period has been useless. Not only at the beginning, but repeatedly, there will be times when we feel a great spiritual dryness and apathy, an aversion, even an inability to meditate. We dare not be balked by such experiences. Above all, we must not allow them to keep us from adhering to our meditation period with great patience and fidelity.
It is, therefore, not good for us to take too seriously the many untoward experiences we have with ourselves in meditation. It is here that our old vanity and our illicit claims upon God may creep in by a pious detour, as if it were our right to have nothing but elevating and fruitful experiences, and as if the discovery of our own inner poverty were quite below our dignity. With that attitude we shall make no progress. Impatience and self-reproach will only foster our complacency and entangle us ever more deeply in the net of self-centered introspection. But there is no more time for such morbidity in meditation than there is in the Christian life as a whole. We must center our attention on the Word alone and leave consequences to its action. For may it not be that God Himself sends us these hours of reproof and dryness that we may be brought again to expect everything from His Word? "Seek God, not happiness" this is the fundamental rule of all meditation. If you seek God alone, you will gain happiness: that is its promise.”
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.”
Source: Lectures on Ethics
“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka
“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.”
Source: American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
“It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.”
Source: Our Country
“It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.”
“It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.”
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
“It is not necessary to define the meaning of a shadow while you are still in the darkness.”
“It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.”
“It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.”
“It is not necessary to have a reason to do good,
it is only necessary to do so.”
“It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.”
Source: Hidden art
“It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.”
“It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.”
“It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun”