All Quotes

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
‐‐ Voltaire

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.
‐‐ Anouska Hempel

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
‐‐ Annie Besant

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
‐‐ Lord Melbourne

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
‐‐ Thomas Edward Brown

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
‐‐ Martin Fleischmann

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
‐‐ Sitting Bull

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
‐‐ Jim Ratcliffe

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
‐‐ Josiah Strong

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.
‐‐ Anne Wilson Schaef

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.
‐‐ Aly Khan

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
‐‐ Frank Dane

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
‐‐ Pierre Beaumarchais

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
‐‐ Luis Gutierrez

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
‐‐ George William Curtis

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
‐‐ George Boole

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
‐‐ E. B. White

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.
‐‐ Christophe de Margerie

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.
‐‐ Mick Cornett

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
‐‐ Aristotle

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.
‐‐ Russ Feingold

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
‐‐ Aesop

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
‐‐ Moliere

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
‐‐ George Porter

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
‐‐ Thomas Francis Meagher

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

It is not only the living who are killed in war.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
‐‐ Antonin Artaud

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
‐‐ John Paul Stevens

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
‐‐ George McGovern

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.
‐‐ Russ Feingold

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
‐‐ Alexander Lebedev