All Quotes

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
‐‐ George William Curtis

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
‐‐ Quentin Crisp

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
‐‐ Frederick William Robertson

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
‐‐ Evander Holyfield

It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan

It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
‐‐ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
‐‐ George Washington Carver

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.
‐‐ David Whyte

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
‐‐ Frank Shorter

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
‐‐ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
‐‐ Julius Caesar

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
‐‐ Dominique de Villepin

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
‐‐ George Ade

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
‐‐ Gerrit Smith

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
‐‐ Frank B. Kellogg

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.
‐‐ Floyd Abrams

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.
‐‐ Eugene Ormandy

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
‐‐ John Osborne

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
‐‐ Max Weber

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.
‐‐ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
‐‐ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.
‐‐ Konrad Zuse

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
‐‐ S. I. Hayakawa

It is not uncommon for angels to take corporeal form, to appear before us on earth as people with names and credentials.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
‐‐ Elihu Root

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.
‐‐ Rick Bragg

It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
‐‐ Andy Summers

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.
‐‐ John Bruton

It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
‐‐ Zach Cregger

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

It is not well to make great changes in old age.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.
‐‐ Anne Wilson Schaef