I Quotes
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“It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.”
“It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.”
“It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.”
“It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.”
“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
Source: Kesey's garage sale
“It isn't called TV money for nothing. There was a time where I paid my rent by doing theater for years, and I was able to buy groceries and pay my electric bill. I considered myself to be making a living as an actor. This kind of money that we make is a whole other level, of course. But it really is simply the cherry on top of a job and a role that I adore.”
“It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.”
“It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.”
“It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.”
“It isn't deep," the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat. "It is...too...deep!" he insisted, outraged.”
“It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.”
“It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can't stand, to try so hard and to end in nothing. You know what I mean, don't you? ... I really loved to write.”
“It isn't easy for everyone in Germany to make ends meet through well-paid work in Germany. You have to have sufficient skills and work hard. And I also know that we have much too much poverty and inequality here. Still, our parents and grandparents built an incredibly prosperous and peaceful country. One shouldn't, of course, play down the degree to which this is dependent on our economic strength. The truth is that Moscow, Beijing and Washington have one thing in common: They don't value the European Union at all. They disregard it.”
“It isn't easy for me to have contact with the industry, because it is so outdated. Look at General Motors, look at -Mercedes, look at Chrysler, look at Porsche, look at BMW . . . They are all building cars from yesterday! Nobody has an idea how the car of tomorrow should look. I've built them already. I have the prototypes in my exhibition, but they won't do it.”
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.”
“It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.”
“It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.”
Source: Letters to Susan
“It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.”
“It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.”
“It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.”
“It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.”
Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition
“It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.”
“It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.”
“It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.”
“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”
Source: The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
“It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things, you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.”
Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace
“It isn't enough to feel the pressure of a situation; you must repent and change your heart...When you cry out to God, let it be the beginning of consistent change in your life.”
“It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“It isn't enough to just be on the journey; we must be awake to our duty and continue with faith as we draw upon the comforting, strengthening, enabling, and healing power of the Atonement.”
“It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.”
Source: 25 Plays
“It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.”
Source: Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts
“It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.”
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
“It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.”
“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
Source: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
“It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.”
“It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.”
Source: Between the Lines: The Complete Series
“It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.”
“It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.”
“It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.”
“It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.”
Source: Locked rooms and open doors
“It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.”
“It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”
Source: Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories
“It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.”
Source: The Road to Understanding
“It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.”
“it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.”
“It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.”
“It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.”
“It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.”