I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s not that it can’t be done. It’s that we’ve talked ourselves out of what can be done.”
“It’s not that love falls to the power of pain. Rather, it’s that pain is shaped by power of love.”
“It’s not that mankind is failing. Rather, it’s that mankind has failed to understand that failure is most often a choice based on the belief that we cannot succeed.”
“It's not that many Americans can't think: They just don't want to.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“It's not that other people seduce us. It's that we so desperately crave the destruction of our own lives.”
Source: Птичка на перваза / Bird on a Window Sill
“It’s not that people are not compassionate. But that compassion has to be aroused. Emotion is a critical factor in helping us understand an event, and it is a motivator that impels action as opposed to just abstract thoughts.”
Source: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
“It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.”
“It’s not that plants are human, but that humans are just one kind of person, as are animals. Personhood means one has agency and volition, and the right to exist for their own sake.”
Source: The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
“It’s not that simple. We’re talking about going to Mars. Living on Mars! How can I give up becoming one of the colonisers of another planet?”
Source: Deserto rosso - Punto di non ritorno
“It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.”
“It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“It's not that Teta doesn't think about money—that's a privilege our family will never know—but to discuss her anxieties with me would be 'ayb. It would be a mark of shame; she'd feel like she'd failed me. The children and grandchildren of "real Americans," the ones who made it, shouldn't need to fear poverty. But Teta has found walls in this country that she never could have imagined.”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“It’s not that the battle is a lost. Rather, it’s more about the fact that we are lost in the battle.”
“It’s not that the bee hovers in the seemingly effortless way that it does that amazes me. Rather, it’s more the amount of air that it has to move in order to do that.”
“It’s not that the brilliance of a sunrise is dulled cold by thick clouds, or that it is left to fire a morning sky free of them. Regardless of how the day might begin, we can be thankful that the opportunities of any day always sit awaiting our arrival whether the hours of that day be spent in clouds or sun.”
“It’s not that the hero is blind to the dangers of the journey; it’s those dangers that raise the hero in him”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“It’s not that the means corrupt the ends. It’s that the ends never work, and that’s why they need brutal means.”
“It’s not that the old are wise
But that we thirst for the wisdom
we had at twenty
when we understood everything
when our brains bubbled
with tingling insights
percolating up from
our brilliant genitals
when our music rang like a global siege
shooting down all the lies in the world
oh then we knew the truth
then we sparkled like mica in granite
and now we stand on the shore
of an ocean that rises and rises
but is too salt to drink”
“It's not that the people are bad but it's the situation which ruins the thoughts of the people. The situation where we forget what's right and what's wrong... that's the moment where we do wrong which we realize long later...”
“It's not that the planet can't heal itself, it can, but once it starts to heal itself, humankind will be eradicated as disease-causing germs.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“It's not that there is nothing real to fear--
it is that fear itself is not rationally based--
it's projecting into the future--
as irrational and projecting as hope,
equally possible and impossible.
But hope emboldens us and fear paralyzes us.”
“It’s not that they mistook your kindness for weakness. It was a test that they failed miserably.”
“It's not that Twitter isn't successful, it just isn't successful enough to justify all the money investors have pumped into it.”
Source: Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
“It's not that we are awesome or good people that nice things happen in our lives. It's because God is good and awesome.”
“It’s not that we don’t have the answer. It’s that we don’t have the answer that we want. And until we get that, our stance is that we don’t have the answer.”
“It's not that we get all the answers in life. Its just that the questions disappear and there we flow with life - quenched yet thirsty; full yet empty.”
“It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable...What was worse, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?
"So we decided to hold parties and pretend each week had become the new year. Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. We weren't allowed to think a bad thought. We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that's how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”
“It’s not that we have to leave this life one day, it's how many things we have to leave all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, wine, summertime,
drunkenness, and the physics of falling leaves, clothing, myrrh, perfumed hair, flirting friends, two strangers' glance; the reflection of the moon, with words like, 'Soon' ... 'do you
want me?' ... '...to lie enlaced' ... 'and sleep entwined' thinking ahead, with thoughts behind...?' Ô, Why!
Why can’t we leave this life slowly?”
“It’s not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it’s how
many things we have to quit
all at once: music, laughter,
the physics of falling leaves,
automobiles, holding hands,
the scent of rain, the concept
of subway trains... if only one
could leave this life slowly!”
Source: Rooftop Soliloquy
“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!”
Source: Hope and Despair
“It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…”
Source: The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“It's not that we stop working when we get old, but we get old when we stop working.”
“It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged.”
Source: The Rachel Incident
“It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.”
Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
“It’s not that you’re actually an island, Alice. It’s just that you still act like one. And nobody can change that but you.”
Source: Windfall
“It's not that you should never love someone so much it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness-
It's your best strength-”
“It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled
It's not a weakness-
It's your best strength-
...
I know it in my heart-
Right now-
Todd Hewitt-
There's nothing we can't do together-
And we're gonna win-”
Source: The Ask and the Answer
“It's not that you were not able to understand. It's only that I failed to understand how you preferred to understand.”
“It's not the 3 bucks you spend on the game, it's the time you sunk into it.”
“It’s not the absence of good. It’s being brave enough to oppose the presence of evil.”
“It's not the absence of imagination that keeps us from our dreams, but the belief in the possibility that we can. Never stop believing.”
Source: Pearls of Light: passion, poetry & positive affirmations
“It’s not the actions, but the desires connected with actions that can be misleading.”
Source: Quantraz
“It’s not the activity that holds the key to finding your passion; it’s what your actions accomplish.”
Source: The 25 Mindsets: Understand Anyone, Even Yourself
“It's not the age that counts but the vitality”
“It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.”
Source: Designed For Inheritance: A Discovery of Sonship
“It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.”
“It’s not the application that is stopping people from using timeless knowledge passed on to us, it’s the acknowledging part.”
“It's not the awards and prizes that add value to one's work, it's the work that adds value to the awards and prizes.”
“It’s not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It’s the good ones.
- Cassie”
Source: Killer Instinct