I Quotes
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“It isn’t every day that you get to save the world.”, FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fever
“It isn’t every man lucky enough to get an old-time Newfoundland dog that can work like a horse and think like a man.”
Source: Sailor's Choice
“It isn't experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in.”
Source: Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
“It isn't fair, Anna. I have all the responsibilities of the lady of the house, and none of the power. Mrs. Fielding knows I can't get rid of her unless Papa is agreeable. She treats me with no respect at all."
"I know," Anna agreed. "She is positively uncivil to you."
"I will have to speak to him." Lucy stopped walking. "He won't like it but I refuse to be treated like this.”
Source: Death Comes to the Village
“It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.”
Source: Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices
“It isn’t fair. It isn’t fair that it’s me and not someone else, and it isn’t fair that it should be anyone.”
Source: When he was wicked
“It isn't fair, Ramona told herself, even though grown-ups were always telling her life was not fair. It wasn't fair that life was not fair.”
Source: Ramona Forever
“It isn’t fair that nothing has color!”
“Not fair?” The Giver looked at Jonas curiously. “Explain what you mean.”
“Well . . .” Jonas had to stop and think it through. “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?”
Source: The Giver
“It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.”
“It isn't God who's evil-it's us.......Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddle with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? Human beings have a tremendous capacity for cruelty. Why is there any goodness at all? Why are people like Grace and Richard so kind? Because there's a God, and he hasn't allowed the earth to be entirely corrupted. There are sticky like leaves, if you look for them. And when you recognize them, you can feel his presence.”
Source: Gabriel's Rapture
“It isn’t hard to find evil in this world,' said the Witch. 'Evil is always more easily imagined than good.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“It isn’t hate, it’s just that there’s no love.”
“It isn't his fault that his days are so similar that he keeps sliding into memories, or into the counterlife, although it is troubling that his memories and the counterlife have started blurring together.”
“It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”
Source: Divergent
“it isn’t just talent which is mobile today, the work itself is highly mobile too.”
Source: The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
“It isn't just that he didn't have to die for our sins. He didn't even have to be born. He chose it freely, in willing obedience to the father.”
Source: Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality
“It isn't just the life of a maiden I needed, you know," the Goblin King said quietly. I glanced sharply at him, his tone had changed. "It was what a maiden can give me."
"And what is that?"
His smile was crooked. "Passion."
Heat flared in my cheeks.
"Not that sort of passion," he said quickly. Did I imagine things, or were his cheeks tinged a faint pink? "Well, yes, that too. Passion of all sorts," he said. "Intensity.”
Source: Wintersong
“It isn’t just the twitch of lips,
but also a gleam in the eyes,
that causes
a pure smile to rise.”
“It isn’t just the US: the half of the world’s population that lives in urban areas generates more than 80 percent of global output, while 600 cities that account for just one-fifth of the global population generate more than 60 percent of global output. Urban living is also healthier for the environment as it tends to involve less travel and smaller housing. Add to that the fact that urban dwellers are ideologically different from their rural counterparts: comparatively liberal, international, trade- and migration-loving, in favor of gender equality and gay rights, environment-defending, and open-minded in matters of religion. The city is progressive—and it’s where progress happens.”
Source: The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
“It isn’t just the way she feels, or smells, or tastes; it’s the way she sighs into my mouth, like: finally. Like: you found me. Like: this is everything I dreamed it would be.
How do you ever stop kissing a girl like that?
Maybe it’s just that simple, you idiot, I think as our tongues sweep over each other in lazy, relaxing rhythm, low tide on a calm day. You don’t.”
Source: Out on Good Behavior
“It isn't just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness' sake. I mean if he were a girl - somebody in my dorm, for example, - he'd have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Or bicycled through wales. Or taken an apartment in New York and worked for a magazine or an advertising company. It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know, not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid, necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making.
And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”
Source: franny and zooey
“It isn't just we humans and the big animals who have their own gods. The great things of this world--rivers, mountains, lakes, forests--have their own gods as well. The very large ones have more than one god. Old Zekoi is one, because the rivers and streams that come to him have their own gods. If you deal with one god--as you now have--you will see others. Treat them with respect if they come to you. Most will not say as much, but they are often called to battle against Uusoae, the Queen of Chaos. Our tribute, prayers, and respect give them strength to keep fighting, somehow.”
Source: Tempests and Slaughter
“It isn’t just what you know, it’s who you know.
It isn’t just what you do, it’s what others are willing to do for you. Your network is your net worth!”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“It isn't like that for everyone, you know. Some people...just get happier and happier everyday. And some people...just get sadder and sadder. And some people, like you, get both." "What about you? Are you the happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
Source: The History of Love
“It isn’t magic, but who’s never felt better after a cookie?”
Source: Cookies and Curses
“It isn't my teaching credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It is my God who qualifies me.”
“It isn't necessarily easy.
It isn't necessarily fun.
But sometimes it's all you can do.
Wait.
Gracefully.
Wait.
With patience.
Wait.
Without making yourself and everyone else
miserable and edgy while you do.”
“It isn't necessary to speculate about the driving force within us, it leaps out and reveals itself. Under pressure, it can't be hidden”
Source: Driving Force
“It isn’t normal to live on milk and cream and cheese and ice cream and eggs and chocolate and wheat flour and alcohol. No! Man is a hunter. Most of the wheat flour should be fed to the animals. Let them go through the arduous labor of converting fodder into meat fat. And then eat the animal. That is the smart thing to do.”
Source: Strong Medicine
“It isn't our circumstances that make life worth living. It's God.”
Source: Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
“It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.”
“It isn't raining anymore. The rain has become soft and light and cold.
It's snowing.
Snowing.
I'm thinking of Topaz and the first snow I ever saw, flakes tumbling lazily out of the sky and settling on the barracks and the dusty roads, so quiet.
And the guys throwing snowballs.The numbness in your fingers, that wet slap in your side, Shig and Tommy and Minnow and Stan Katsumoto...
Everyone running and shrieking with laughter. Mas, Frankie, Bette, Yum-Yum...
Keiko laughing. Prettiest girl I ever saw, with snow like stars in her hair.
I close my eyes, and I think I can hear us, all of us, running. The Topaz roads are turning into pavement, the barracks are turning into San Francisco, the desert air is turning wet and salty, and we're running, running until we hit the ocean, that roaring blue expanse, and all of us, running into waves.
Laughing.”
Source: We Are Not Free
“It isn’t real, none of it is, but it’s bearable. Isn’t it pathetic the only way some can tolerate existence is by faking one? The effort to entertain is a happy one. It’s the need to do it that’s so damn sad.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“It isn’t sensuality that is the source of a multitude of sins but lack thereof.”
“It isn’t so much life’s problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.”
“It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know. Sorcery is a state of awareness.”
Source: The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of don Juan
“It isn't that easy
It's just not as easy as saying try again and don't give up
Life is teaching her repeatedly
That pain is definitely something to shake off
And she is staring at death in the face and saying I just can't do it anymore I'm ready
Yet life picks her up and shows her the bright light
But again as she walks toward the brightness it slowly fades away
Always leaving her with never ending hope and shattered dreams.”
“It isn't that it's too soon, you're on the back of my bike, it ain't too soon. You can buy sheets. You cannot install blinds."
"um..." I mumbled. "Can you explain the difference?"
"Sheets are chick territory," he said without delay. "You gotta use tools, that's dick territory."
"Oh," I whispered.
"Don't tread on dick territory," he advised.
"So, um... is a paintbrush a tool?" I asked cautiously.
"If you're paintin' the side of the house, yeah. If you're painting mud colored paint in a room, no."
"It's terracotta," I said softly.
"Whatever," he muttered, his mouth twitching.
"Or, the paint chip called it Mexican horizon. The blue is dawn sky."
"Definitely chick territory," Tate replied, losing the fight with his grin.
"What about...pictures for the walls?" I asked.
"Chick," he answered instantly.
"Um...could I ask that, instead of you getting angry and being a jerk, maybe you give me a head's up when I'm doing something stupid?”
Source: Sweet Dreams
“It isn’t that rote prayers don’t have a place as a meditative form of prayer. After all, Jesus taught His disciples to pray the Our Father. But rote prayers alone are limiting. If the only conversations I have with a friend or spouse are reading or speaking from a memorized script, how close would I get to them? How well would we know each other without genuine conversation? I could be using all the right words, but would I be having heartfelt talks that encourage and strengthen intimacy? God desires that same intimacy, the kind we seek with a spouse or close friend.”
Source: Soul Mates: Path to a Praying Partnership
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit!”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“It isn’t the color of a man's skin that's the problem, but the individual that encompassed it.”
Source: Black People Don't Ski
“It isn't the dark you should be afraid of, the girl thought, it's the monsters who step out into the light that you need to fear.”
Source: The Overnight Guest
“It isn’t the education, the job, the promotion, the salary, the material increase—none of that. The real gold is the integrity you gain or lose throughout the process. If you don’t want to cross a line, don’t approach it.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.”
Source: Wieża Jaskółki
“It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most;
it's making a great deal out of the little ones—I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now.”
Source: Daddy Long Legs
“It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.”
Source: Hold Still
“It isn't the numbers that matter. It's each and every teenager we are entrusted with to help them grow into disciples of the living Christ.”
Source: Single-Digit Youth Groups: Working with Fewer Than Ten Teens
“It isn't the Purifiers who are dangerous, but the man himself. His beliefs. His ideas. if we don't stand up to those-- here and now-- then all we've done is delay an inevitable holocaust.”
Source: X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov believed that the ideal, the end we all struggle toward in science, is the true mechanical explanation. He was realistic enough not to expect it in his lifetime. Or in several lifetimes more. But his hope was for a long chain of better and better approximations. His faith ultimately lay in a pure physiological basis for the life of the psyche. No effect without cause, and a clear train of linkages.
"It's not my forte, of course," Mexico honestly wishing not to offend the man, but really, "but there's a feeling about that cause-and-effect may have been taken as far as it will go. That for science to carry on at all, it must look for a less narrow, a less . . . sterile set of assumptions. The next great breakthrough may come when we have the courage to junk cause-and-effect entirely, and strike off at some other angle."
"No - not 'strike off.' Regress. You're 30 years old, man. There are no 'other angles.' There is only forward - into it – or backward.”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow