I Quotes
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“It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.”
“It isn't right. It isn't even wrong.”
“It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.”
“It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.”
“It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.”
Source: Mark Twain's
“It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.”
“It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.”
“It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.”
Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure
“It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.”
“It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.”
“It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.”
“It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an interior world: not inside the house but inside the mind and body of writer and reader.”
“It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.”
“It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?”
Source: The Bleeding Heart: A Novel
“It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.”
“It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”
“It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.”
Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue
“It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.”
“It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.”
“It isn't that easy to live according to intuition, yet, it's so totally cool once we can get beyond the other voices and hear our intuition.”
“It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.”
“It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.”
“It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.”
“It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.”
Source: The Setting Sun
“It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.”
“It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.”
“It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.”
“It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.”
Source: Writing a Novel
“It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.”
“It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”
“It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.”
“It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the right to protect and direct the upbringing of their children. Because our K-12 public school system, of which ninety per cent of all youth are in the public school system, they will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it. And that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality.”
“It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.”
Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave
“It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.”
Source: A Bend in the River
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.”
“It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.”
Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
“It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.”
“It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.”
Source: The facts: a novelist's autobiography
“It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.”
“It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
“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. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.”
Source: Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
“It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal”
“It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.”
“It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.”
“It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.”
“It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.”
“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. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy