I Quotes
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“It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am.”
Source: Traveling While Married
“It is not possible to rule out anything because we don't know what will happen.”
“It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.”
Source: Mark
“It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.”
“It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!”
“It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.”
“It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions - either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy - in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children.”
“It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.”
“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”
“It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.”
“It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.”
“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book
“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book
“It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.”
“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“It is not prayer alone that touches God, you also need an act of Faith.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action.”
“It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.”
Source: The Economics of Welfare
“It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.”
“It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.”
Source: Culture and Materialism: Selected Essays
“It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.”
“It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.”
“It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.”
Source: Selected Short Stories
“It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.”
“It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.”
“It is not proper, you being closeted up here with him --"
"Delphinia, don't be absurd. I am so firmly on the shelf that the maids are tempted to dust me.”
Source: The Duke of Shadows
“It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.”
“It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.”
“It is not quite accurate to say the Republican Party is more destructive on virtually every domestic and foreign policy issue, because such a statement would imply that the party has any interest in policy as it exists in normal, civil society.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too cognitive. It's more like the simple Feeling of Being. You already feel this simple Feeling of Being: it is the simple, present feeling of existence.”
Source: One Taste
“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.”
“It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.”
“It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.”
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
“It is not raining to me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on distant hills.”
“It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.”
“It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you. You are not of this place, and it has no power over you. You do not need it, nor do you owe it your allegiance." I nodded, listening only to his words and not to the rattling of the windows, which had begun as soon as we stepped inside.”
Source: Bird
“It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”
“It is not realistic to put legal constraints on war powers. Law works through general prospective rules that apply to a range of factual situations. International relations and national security are too fluid and unpredictable to be governed by a set of legal propositions that command general assent secured in advance. Laws governing war make us feel more secure but they don’t actually make us more secure”
“It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.”
“It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.”
“It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.”
Source: Things That Matter
“It is not really my son’s fault, after all what can he do. Gambling is an inherited disease, who is he to fight it. Generations before him have succumbed to the rush of excitement, the lure of teasing fate, the brief moment of uncertainty and the prospect of an easy win. It needs no skill, not much effort and certainly no talent - only a deep wallet and a strong heart.”
Source: Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love
“It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.”
“It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.”
“It is not really work if you are having fun.”
“It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.”
“It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”
“It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.”
“It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading.”