I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.”
Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait
“It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.”
Source: Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls
“It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.”
“It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.”
Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government
“It is not other people who make them to smoke, it is mostly a voluntary decision.”
“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… it is our choices.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.”
“It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.”
“It is not our appearances but our hearts that make us humans.”
“It is not our beliefs but our sincerity that transforms us.”
“It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.”
“It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.”
“It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.”
“It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself.”
“It is not our contemplation of life. Rather, it is the living out of our lives so that we have something to contemplate.”
“It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.”
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
“It is not our differences that separate us. It is the denial of the beauty and rightness of those differences that separate us.”
Source: Wounds
“It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“It is not our external actions that attract others, but it is the actions of our imaginations, visualizations, and subconscious minds that attract others.”
“It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.”
Source: What is Worth While?
“It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism”
“It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but 'it is the Lord who lifts up those who were laid low' (Ps. 145:8). It is not application to reading but 'it is the Lord who gives light to the blind' (Ps. 145:8). It is not our cautiousness but 'it is the Lord who protects the stranger' (Ps. 145:9). It is not our endurance but 'it is the Lord who raises or gives support to the fallen' (Ps. 144:14).”
Source: Conferences
“It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.”
“It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?”
“It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.”
Source: The Ghost Writer
“It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.”
“It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.”
“It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.”
“It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.”
“It is not our littleness that hinders Christ; but our bigness. It is not our weakness that hinders Christ; it is our strength. It is not our darkness that hinders Christ; it is our supposed light that holds back his hand.”
“It is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.”
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.”
“It is not our prayer and worship of God that makes God love us; rather, it’s God’s unconditional love for us that results in our worship. We do not pray for the love of God, but from the love of God. God’s power inspires and allows us to pray, and it’s that same divine power that we are calling to in prayer. As Rumi says, “I am a mountain. You call, I echo.”
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
“It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.”
“It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.”
Source: Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
“It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.”
“It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.”
Source: Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life
“It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.”
“It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.”
“It is not our work that we sell. The payment is for our continued commitment.
It is our commitment not our work that sells.”
“It is not our worship that makes God, so great. It is because He is so great, that we worship Him.”
“It is not out of the question to say that our democracy
is seriously threatened.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.”
“It is not over, unless you stop trying.”
“It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.”
“It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.”
Source: An Introduction to Mathematics