I Quotes
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“It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel.”
“It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.”
“It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.”
Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
“It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
“It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future.”
“It's not that we should declare the praises of God. It's that we may.”
“It's not that we use technology, we live technology.”
“It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.”
Source: Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life
“It's not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you're going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.”
“It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.”
“It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.”
Source: How to Be Single
“It's not that writing staffs don't change at all, but they don't change very much. Directors are freelancers. There are directors who do five or 10 episodes of a show every year for years, but most directors are freelance, they come and go.”
“It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.”
Source: Blind Date
“It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.”
“It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they operate. And they also certainly ought to know that meeting and beating expectations is probably yesterday's game and it will be increasingly so, which would be by the way very healthy for companies. Running a company that meets and beats expectations, and that runs their company accordingly, are companies that I would question why anyone would invest in.”
“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.”
“It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.”
“It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.”
“It's not that you should never love something so much that 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're not smart anymore; it's that you're unwilling to do it. Coaches who coach know what I'm talking about. You just keep battling to help your coaches and your players, to refine your scheme, to break down your opponent, to find ways to travel and take care of your players.”
“It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done.”
“It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.”
Source: Searching for Heaven on Earth: How to Find What Really Matters in Life
“It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.”
“It's not the '80s any more. We're not all riding around in limousines and snorting coke off of hookers' tits. We still have to keep working and touring. We're definitely still very much a working band. If we stopped doing this tomorrow, we'd have a little bit of cash to last us a couple of months, and then we'd have to go and get other jobs.”
“It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.”
“It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.”
“It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.”
“It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.”
“It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.”
“It's not the art, it's the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it's organic; it's relational.”
“It's not the average people that come to my show.”
“It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.”
“It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.”
“It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.”
Source: The Christmas Train
“It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.”
Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
“It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.”
Source: The Compound Effect
“It's not the black belt that you wear on your waist. It's the black belt in your heart and knowing that you can go out there and you can do it. That's what a true black belt is.”
“It's not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.”
“It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.”
“It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.”
Source: Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
“It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.”
“It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.”
“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”
Source: Little Children
“It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.”
Source: I'm Just a Person: My year of death, cancer and epiphany
“It's not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for something called same-gender marriage have essentially put that potato on the fork. They're the ones who have created a situation whereby the law of the land, one way or the other, is going to address this issue of marriage. This is not a situation where the Church has elected to take the matter into the legal arena or into the political arena. It's already there.”
“It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.”
“It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want”
“It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.”
Source: The Dogs of Babel
“It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.”
“It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.”