I Quotes
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“It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”
“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.”
“It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
“It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”
Source: Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.”
“It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.”
“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.”
“It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.”
“It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.”
Source: John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe
“It is not the gravity of the moment. Rather, it is the faith of the man who stands in the gravity of the moment.”
“It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.”
Source: Seacliff; Or, The Mystery of the Westervelts
“It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.”
“It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.”
“It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.”
“It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.”
“It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.”
“It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.”
“It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.”
“It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.”
Source: The Shape of Content
“It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.
All who dream life, instead of living it,
require some similar shock.”
Source: Complete Works of George MacDonald
“It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.”
Source: Men of Destiny (Ppr)
“It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.”
“It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.
~Andrew Bonar~”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.”
Source: the new industrial state
“it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.”
Source: The Second Sex
“It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.”
Source: Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers
“It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.”
Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
“It is not the job for those who are angry about the events of the day to strike out and post things that they hope will incite anger in others as well. Do not sell your social media friends short as far as their ability to find the news for themselves.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.”
Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need”
“It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.”
“It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.”
“It is not the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog’s generics, not to impose man’s will over dog’s. It may be worth noting that many Scottish hill dogs never know the weight”
Source: Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men: Searching Through Scotland For A Border Collie
“It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven’t made are the real source of regrets in your life!”
“It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.”
Source: Nelson Mandela, Speeches 1990:
“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“It is not the last fatal crisis of a slow mental malady, as is so often the case in these more effeminate modern times; still less is it that more theoretical disgust of life, founded on a conviction of its worthlessness, which induced so many of the later Romans, on Epicurean as well as Stoical principles, to put an end to their existence. It is not through any unmanly despondency that Ajax is unfaithful to his rude heroism. His delirium is over, as well as his first comfortless feelings upon awaking from it; and it is not till after the complete return of consciousness, and when he has had time to measure the depth of the abyss into which, by a divine destiny, his overweening haughtiness has plunged him, when he contemplates his situation, and feels it ruined beyond remedy:—his honour wounded by the refusal of the arms of Achilles; and the outburst of his vindictive rage wasted in his infatuation on defenceless flocks; himself, after a long and reproachless heroic career, a source of amusement to his enemies, an object of derision and abomination to the Greeks, and to his honoured father,—should he thus return to him—a disgrace: after reviewing all this, he decides agreeably to his own motto, "gloriously to live or gloriously to die," that the latter course alone remains open to him. Even the dissimulation,—the first, perhaps, that he ever practised, by which, to prevent the execution of his purpose from being disturbed, he pacifies his comrades, must be considered as the fruit of greatness of soul. He appoints Teucer guardian to his infant boy, the future consolation of his own bereaved parents; and, like Cato, dies not before he has arranged the concerns of all who belong to him. As Antigone in her womanly tenderness, so even he in his wild manner, seems in his last speech to feel the majesty of that light of the sun from which he is departing for ever. His rude courage disdains compassion, and therefore excites it the more powerfully. What a picture of awaking from the tumult of passion, when the tent opens and in the midst of the slaughtered herds he sits on the ground bewailing himself!”
Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
“It is not the last stroke of a hammer that leads to the crumbling of the wall, but the summation of every single strike from the beginning.”
“It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.”
“It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in...the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.”
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.”
Source: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
“It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing...”
“It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.”
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
“It is not the length of the dance that matters.
It is that someone, even for a moment, recognised our music.”
Source: Brilliance of Dawn
“It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.”