All Quotes

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
‐‐ Aslan Maskhadov

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
‐‐ Josh Billings

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
‐‐ Andre Gide

It is not always possible or even right for a man to make his wife number one in his life. This is due to the nature of his life. His number one responsibility is to provide the living.
‐‐ Helen Andelin

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.
‐‐ John Updike

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
‐‐ Tony Blair

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.
‐‐ David Limbaugh

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.
‐‐ Eugene Ormandy

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
‐‐ Atom Egoyan

It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.
‐‐ Max Weber

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.
‐‐ Erich von Stroheim

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
‐‐ Adam Smith

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
‐‐ David Ricardo

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
‐‐ Lucretia Mott

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
‐‐ Dixie Lee Ray

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
‐‐ David Hume

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
‐‐ Hassan II of Morocco

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
‐‐ Henry Fielding

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
‐‐ Epictetus

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
‐‐ Jefferson Davis

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'
‐‐ Arthur H. Compton

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
‐‐ Mencius

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
‐‐ Herman Melville

It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
‐‐ Ilya Ilyin

It is not easy for me to sing consonants, and I am sorry if I don't sing the 'S'.
‐‐ Jose Carreras

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
‐‐ Juvenal

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackwell

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
‐‐ Florida Scott-Maxwell

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
‐‐ Charles Eames

It is not easy to dress well.
‐‐ Jil Sander

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier