I Quotes
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“It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.”
Source: The City of God
“It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of ‘journey’ and ‘life’ are indistinguishably synonymous. I can however sufficiently inhibit them and amply fight them to the point that I have accepted the journey, but the journey is now solely defined as my effort to forsake the journey.”
Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
“It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.”
“It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.”
“It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.”
Source: The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion
“It is not without good reason that the literary tradition of pastoral poetry can look back on an almost uninterrupted history of over two thousand years since its beginnings in Hellenism. With the exception of the early Middle Ages, when urban and court culture was extinguished, there have been variants of this poetry in every century. Apart from the thematic material of the novel of chivalry, there is probably no other subject-matter 15 that has occupied the literature of Western Europe for so long and maintained itself against the assaults of rationalism with such tenacity. This long and uninterrupted reign shows that ‘sentimental’ poetry, in Schiller’s sense of the word, plays an incomparably greater part in the history of literature than ‘naïve’ poetry. Even the idylls of Theocritus himself owe their existence not, as might be imagined, to genuine roots in nature and a direct relationship to the life of the common people, but to a reflective feeling for nature and a romantic conception of the common folk, that is, to sentiments which have their origin in a yearning for the remote, the strange and the exotic. The peasant and the shepherd are not enthusiastic about their surroundings or about their daily work. And interest in the life of the simple folk is, as we know, to be sought neither in spatial nor social proximity to the peasantry; it does not arise in the folk itself but in the higher classes, and not in the country but in the big towns and at the courts, in the midst of bustling life and an over-civilized, surfeited society. Even when Theocritus was writing his idylls, the pastoral theme and situation were certainly no longer a novelty; it will already have occurred in the poetry of the primitive pastoral peoples, but doubtless without the note of sentimentality and complacency, and probably also without attempting to describe the outward conditions of the shepherd’s life realistically. Pastoral scenes, although without the lyrical touch of the Idylls, were to be found before Theocritus, at any rate, in the mime. They are a matter of course in the satyr plays, and rural scenes are not unknown even to tragedy. But pastoral scenes and pictures of country life are not enough to produce bucolic poetry; the preconditions for this are, above all, the latent conflict of town and country and the feeling of discomfort with civilization.”
Source: The Social History of Art Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism
“It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.”
“It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.”
“It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.”
“it is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority”
Source: The Second Sex
“It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.”
Source: The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys
“It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.”
“It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.”
“It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.”
“It is not work that kills, but "worry."”
“It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.”
“It is not worrying, but rather trusting and abiding in the peace of God that will crush anything that Satan tries to do to us. If the Lord created the world out of chaos, He can easily deal with any problem that we have.”
Source: High Calling: 50 Days to a Soaring Vision
“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”
“It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary.”
“It is not worth involving with people; that is kusang (negative association; company that takes you away from the Self). Involving oneself with satsang (company of the eternal truth) is worth doing.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.”
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.”
“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”
“It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.”
Source: Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)
“It is not written that you may not grieve.
It is not written that you may not shed any tears.
It is not written that feeling the emotion of the hurt
that touched you would only make you weak.
But it is written that after the rain,
you will get a wonderful rainbow.
It is written that at the end of every tunnel,
you will find a bright light.
It is written that after a journey of a thousand steps,
you will find your way to your destination.
It is written that after every difficulty comes ease,
After every pain comes joy,
After every hurt comes understanding.
It is not written that you may not grieve,
But my Darling,
You can’t cry every time someone asks you your name!”
Source: Flowers for the Dead
“It is not wrong BEING ignorant but STAYING”
“It is not wrong or bigoted to believe American society is stronger and that the family unit is better served when marriage is between a man and a woman. It is also not wrong for homosexual Americans to want to get as much parity as they can.”
“It is not wrong to admit that our choices change little in this world; there is so much over which we can exert little if any influence. That doesn't mean our choices are meaningless; they matter and last into eternity because each of our individual lives is a thread of a great tapestry that in its corporate beauty is glorious. But we can't always see the future, nor how one seemingly small and insignificant choice ripples across countless lives.”
“It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.”
Source: The Speed of Dark
“It is not wrong to feel sorry for yourself. Just like it is not wrong to sit in a puddle of water while the rain pours down on your head. But neither is productive, unless you enjoy feeling cold and miserable and soggy while mascara runs down your face.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.”
“It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers.”
Source: Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic
“It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards 'having' rather than 'being,' and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.”
“It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.”
“It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.”
“It is not your background that determines how far you can go in life. It is God’s plan, your hard work and your determination that matter. Have Faith in God. He will turn your life around.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me; it is your simplicity and being you.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.”
“It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”
“It is not your business to love me. It is mine.”
“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.”
“It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.”
Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour
“It is not your duty to run from the devil but resist him and he will flew from you.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.”
“It is not your fans or your customers’ job to market you. Stop treating them like it is.”
“It is not your fate that is your verdict, but how you deal with your fate. If you find yourself in a story contrary to every vow you have made or wish to make, then you must silence your mind and observe everything closely. You must see the patterns of possible fates in the world around you and choose that which your holy soul tells you to choose." - Thordis, Thunder priestess”
Source: The Hel Runes Claim: Life of the Oseberg priestess (783-834 AD)