All Quotes

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.
‐‐ Ellen Key

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
‐‐ Voltaire

It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
‐‐ Natan Sharansky

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
‐‐ Paulo Freire

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
‐‐ Matthew Henry

It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
‐‐ Vince Gill

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
‐‐ Cesare Pavese

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
‐‐ Van Wyck Brooks

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
‐‐ Gordon W. Allport

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
‐‐ Junius

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
‐‐ David Allan Coe

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
‐‐ Billy Graham

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
‐‐ Gilbert Parker

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
‐‐ Arthur Wellesley

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
‐‐ George MacDonald

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
‐‐ Simone Weil

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
‐‐ David Mamet

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
‐‐ Owen D. Young

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
‐‐ Henry Ford

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
‐‐ Dorothy Thompson

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
‐‐ Hans Hofmann

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
‐‐ Robert Jackson

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
‐‐ John Amery

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
‐‐ Mary Astell

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
‐‐ Jesus Christ

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
‐‐ Branch Rickey

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
‐‐ Sydney Madwed

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
‐‐ Anna Julia Cooper

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
‐‐ Peter Stuyvesant

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
‐‐ Aeschylus

It is not the position, but the disposition.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
‐‐ Max Planck

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.
‐‐ Morris Hite

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.
‐‐ Jerrold Nadler