I Quotes
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“It is not necessary to live,
But to carve our names beyond that point,
This is necessary.”
“It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.”
Source: Prayer
“It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external.”
“It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith.”
“It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth.”
“It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.”
“It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.”
“It is not necessary to try to win over your critics. Your influence is going to have merit, and the talent you bring forth will have real importance for the world to see.”
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
“It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.”
Source: Guerrilla Warfare
“It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you had enough power, you could unlock your own personal power - you wouldn't need to control others.”
“It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.”
“It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.”
“It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.”
“It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.”
Source: Abundance for What?
“It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.”
“It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
“It is not night when I do see your face.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.”
“It is not normal for a body to remain horizontal; beyond a certain length of time it attracts concern. Death and burial ('laid to rest') are seen as the natural horizontal states, which is surely why the calculated falsity of perpendicular deaths, such as hangings, crucifixions, burnings at the stakes, etc. produce such indelible shock.”
Source: Eucalyptus
“It is not nothing
that it’s the loveliest night of the year
I hear a melody from my balcony
—elsewhere life is exploding
becoming stars
but all that is lost on me
I am here trying not to name this
How can I not say
that for me
there is not enough of you
I invent you
numerous times a day
practice not saying the words
as you laugh lawlessly
and hold me in your solid livingness
yet each time I fall
forever like a leaf
It’s become so hard
I blurted the words
in a goodbye to your dog
It’s the loveliest night of the year
as I practice unspeaking
how to not say there was
whatever that came before
and then a life of possibility”
“It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.”
Source: The Magnificent Defeat
“It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.”
“It is not observed in history that families improve with time.”
Source: Prue and I.
“It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by the crisp borders, sharp corners, neat railings, and machine-polished textures that define the new Japanese landscape, because, consciously or unconsciously, most of us see such things as embodying the very essence of modernism. In short, foreigners very often fall in love with kirei even more than the Japanese do; for one thing, they can have no idea of the mysterious beauty of the old jungle, rice paddies, wood, and stone that was paved over. Smooth industrial finish everywhere, with detailed attention to each cement block and metal joint: it looks ‘modern’; ergo, Japan is supremely modern.”
Source: Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan
“It is not of my concern what other religions or beliefs there are in the world as long as they are helping others.”
“It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.”
Source: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities
“It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”
Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”
Source: Eona
“It is not often that we get to learn from the mistakes of the past."
Rogal Dorn”
Source: The Solar War
“It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.”
“It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.”
Source: Imagining Argentina
“It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.”
“It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.”
“It is not okay for someone you like to treat you poorly and then pretend it didn’t happen, making you question your own grasp on reality. This dynamic is called gaslighting. It’s a common tactic of abusers to shift the focus of the blame from their bad behavior onto the person they are victimizing. One important side effect of gaslighting is having your memory “black out” after a fight (because your brain is trying to protect you from the cruelty of the abuse), which results in not being able to remember how an argument started. You may start to internalize the idea that there is something wrong with you and that you did something to provoke the situation as you’re increasingly beaten down and confused.”
“It is not okay to ‘live and let live,’ to let ‘bygones be bygones,’ to ‘forgive and forget,’ to let the ‘past be the past’ or any of the other clichés your family and friends will try to persuade you to forget about what happened and to move on. Try not to accept these messages.”
Source: The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Therapeutic 7-Step Self-Help Program for Men and Women, Including How to Choose a Therapist and Find a Support Group
“It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
Source: The Hiding Place
“It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.”
“It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.”
“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”
“It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.”
“It is not one monumental occasion when the knife of betrayal will cut you. There are moments, more of callous disregard than cruelty. When you realize you are not what you were. You have been taken off that little shrine in their hearts.”
Source: Fourteen Springs of Separation
“It is not one's actions that hurt the most, but love. If there were no love associated with that act, perhaps the pain would be more tolerable.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.”
Source: Reflections
“It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.”