All Quotes

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
‐‐ Michael Crapo

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
‐‐ Johannes Brahms

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
‐‐ Epictetus

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
‐‐ Karl Marx

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
‐‐ John Ruskin

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
‐‐ Jules Renard

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
‐‐ Corazon Aquino

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
‐‐ Anaxagoras

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
‐‐ Joseph Wood Krutch

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
‐‐ Ben Okri

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
‐‐ Rahul Gandhi

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
‐‐ Morris Raphael Cohen

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
‐‐ James F. Byrnes

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
‐‐ George MacDonald

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
‐‐ Denis Waitley

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
‐‐ Archibald MacLeish

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
‐‐ Samuel Adams

It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.
‐‐ Johann Rupert

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
‐‐ Bob Barr

It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
‐‐ Laurie Colwin

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
‐‐ Herman Hesse

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
‐‐ Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
‐‐ Voltaire

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

It is not like casting me in your movie is going to help you get financing.
‐‐ Adam Scott

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
‐‐ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
‐‐ Socrates

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
‐‐ Lawrence Durrell