I Quotes
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“It's not all in your head. People will look you in the eye and try to make you think you're crazy.”
Source: Origin: Music, Art, Yoga & Consciousness
“It’s not all men, and yet, statistically, it will be a man.”
Source: On Reckoning
“It's not always a question of you changing your mind. I think very often your mind changes you. You suddenly realise that without having intended to think something, or while intending to think something, you can't quite do it anymore. It doesn't mean the same thing it used to. And you wonder why. And if you want to take an honest exploration of why that is, it may lead you in some alarming but fruitful directions.
That's actually why I called this book Hitch-22, because it's a minor-key echo of the great Joe Heller paradox; but in a lifetime that's had quite a lot of commitment in it, and allegiance, I've now reached a point where I'm mainly associated with a group of people who I suppose could be described as adamant for skepticism, or resolve for uncertainty. And this pits us against the people who are completely sure they have all the answers - or modern totalitarians. The ones who have all the information they need, and who indeed have the truth as it's been revealed to them - they're already qualified to tell us what to do. Opposition to that lot is the cause of my life, always has been, in a way, and opposition to all forms of totalitarianism, not just as a system of thought but in the mind.”
“It's not always about creation. It's about the love and care you put into the earth. It's intent. It'll know your intentions, and, if they're good and pure, there is nothing you won't be able to do.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“It’s not always about what we can or can’t have, but the work we put into it.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door
“It’s not always an advantage being born in high society.”
Source: The Missionary
“It's not always easy, however dig deep and choose to forgive. Forgive yourself and others to reclaim your energy.”
“It's not always easy to admit that we can step out of the Lord's will when we want our own way. Yet, these are teachable moments to grow our faith in the dark. To live and learn. To be spiritually strengthened. To deepen our trust in Him, especially when His will and our will are opposite.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves.”
Source: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“It’s not always easy to do what’s right. That’s what makes it so special!”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“It’s not always easy to do what we feel in our heart to be right, but the wise know that inner peace is often the worthy reward for choosing to follow the quiet voice within.”
“It’s not always easy to find that bright side, and often you can’t see it until weeks
or months later, but there is always a bright side.”
Source: Stronger Now: How to Thrive in Any Circumstance and Become Unstoppable
“It’s not always easy to love ourselves but it is the hardest parts that are worth loving the most. This is how we grow. - Jaime Bottomley”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“It’s not always easy to write your own rules, especially when you are most comfortable with following other people’s rules.”
Source: Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love
“It's not always ho ho ho on the high, high highway. Extended time in the car reveals human frailties.
Dad's refuse to stop. They hearken back to the examples of their forefathers. Did the pioneers spend the night at a Holiday Inn? Did Lewis and Clark ask for directions? Did Joseph allow Mary to stroll through a souvenir shop on the road to Bethlehem? By no means. Men drive as if they have a biblical mandate to travel far and fast, stopping only for gasoline.
And children? Road trips do to kids what a full moon does to the wolf man. If one child says, "I like that song," you might expect the other to say, "That's nice." Won't happen. Instead the other child will reply, "It stinks and so do your feet."
There is also the issue of JBA---juvenile bladder activity. A child can go weeks without going to the bathroom at home. But once on the road, the kid starts leaking like secrets in Washington. On one drive to Colorado, my daughters visited every toilet in New Mexico.
The best advice for traveling with young children is to be thankful they aren't teenagers. Teens are embarrassed by what their parents say, think, wear, eat, and sing. So for their sakes (and if you ever want to see your future grandchildren), don't smile at the waitstaff, don't breathe, and don't sing with the window down or up.
It's wiser to postpone traveling with children until they are a more reasonable age---like forty-two.”
Source: Because of Bethlehem Bible Study Guide: Love is Born, Hope is Here
“It's not always so easy," Bowe says. "Standing next to you."
"I'm not going to apologize for it," I say.
"No," Bowe says, shaking his head. "Nor would I want you to.”
Source: 100 Large Print Dot To Dot Book For Adults: Jumbo Dot-to-Dots For Adults, Seniors of Flowers, Animals
“It's not always so easy," she said softly.
"Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.”
Source: The Lovely and the Lost
“It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”
“It's not always the story of what happened to you. It's the story the judge wants to hear.”
“It’s not always what is said, but what is left on the plate, that tells the true story.”
Source: Healthy Profits: How to promote healthy choices that grow your food business
“It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way; sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“It's not American Dream, it's American Scream - utopia for a white, straight, misogynistic animal kingdom to flourish, but an absolute purgatory for a civilized human society.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“It's not an accident of birth that made you my sister. You're my sister because you took the blame for that pie we stole from the cook when you were three.”
Source: The Princess Pact: a Twist on Rumpelstiltskin
“It’s not an act of bitterness. It’s an act of self-preservation. There’s simply no way to carry on with my life as it is now if I have to remember how much better things used to be.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“It’s not an airport. You don’t have to announce your departure.”
Source: The Paid Bridesmaid
“It's not an easy thing, being the Black Friend. And it's certainly not a role every Black person should be expected to take on. But those of us who choose to play that role do so because we know that by helping our white friends become better people, we help make the world a little bit better for the rest of us.”
Source: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
“It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.”
“It’s not an easy time, love, but it’s the time we have.
I’m here for it, here with you, ‘tho cannot hold your hand.
There is no railing, no concrete ground. So wander
Into the uncharted, allowing all the feelings
But not letting them hold you back. Step out
With them, dance with them,
In the liminal space between our Before-world and our
Future-world … the ellipses … the dot dot dot …
The myriad notes between any two pitches …
The distance between all that is finite …
The infinite”
“It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.”
Source: Lock In
“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
“It’s not an excuse, it’s just the truth. I don’t blame you. I would have probably said the same, I would have gone mad with grief. I would have lashed out at anyone. It’s just that you… you fucking broke my heart, Brigs. You gave me guilt and you broke me in two. I was dying from both.”
Source: The Lie
“It’s not an identical pain that we all meet one day when death finds us. It’s a monster, personalized by our love and memories to devour us just so. Grief is suffering, tailored.”
Source: Bloodmarked
“It's not an original thought perhaps, but I think people watch so much TV because life would otherwise be unbearable. Unless you are born into a chaebol family or your parents were the fantastically lucky who purchased land in Gangnam decades ago, you have to work and work and work for a salary that isn't even enough to buy a house or pay for childcare, and you sit at a desk until your spine twists, and your boss is somehow incompetent and a workaholic at the same time and at the end of the day you have to drink to bear it all.
But I grew up not knowing the difference between a bearable life and an unbearable life, and by the time I discovered there was such a thing, it was too late.”
Source: If I Had Your Face
“It's not an overstatement to characterize the toxic teachings of men like Yiannopoulos as being central to the radicalisation of today's young white men, and marginalised people (which includes women, but certainly isn't limited to us) do not have to negotiate with terrorists to secure their rights to live peacefully.”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
“It's not an unkind thing to make a new home. And it will be one where all whom you love are welcomed.”
Source: The Gilda Stories
“It's not anyone's fault that this world is full of omens.
By all accounts, history is a practice
of ignoring things & hoping for the best. You can drive
yourself crazy with looking. You can expect
bad luck to mark you unfooled, fooled.
Light to mark you with light.”
Source: Brute: Poems
“It's not anyone's job to make another person happy, but the truth is, people can either be very happy or very unhappy together. Happiness or unhappiness isn't a measure of their love. You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.”
Source: Leaving Before the Rains Come
“It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.”
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
“It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?”
Source: God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
“It's not Art trusting again. Art is trying to believe again”
“It's not as easy
as it is with chewing shame and foolishness
to chew the wreckage of broken time.”
“It's not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic jam or stadium trampling or the hierarchy of cruelty in high school; it's something we collectively force one another to do.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“It's not as if I don't know how to handle the truck now. A license is just a piece of paper”
Source: Ice Dogs
“It's not as if the place remembers you”
Source: Before You Knew My Name
“It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I've seen too many estates not to know that. Idolatry! Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?”
Source: The Goldfinch
“It's not as though the world hates you- it just has no idea who you are”
Source: Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
“It’s not at all what I thought it would be. Nothing is. No matter how much I love it, it doesn’t love me back. If I weren’t so broken, it would fit. I feel like I don’t have a home.”
“It's not automatic that when you marry, your spouse will be your best friend; it's something you have to work towards.”
“It's not automatic to have a successful friendship in marriage; it's decisive and intentional.”
“It's not bad, but it's not good either!”