Top 100 Is Not The Quotes
#1. We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#2. Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
Ben Carson
#3. Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man.
Joseph Murphy
#4. Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm; be patient!
Israelmore Ayivor
#5. If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.
Liz Rosenberg
#6. There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.
David F. Wells
#8. Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.
Abhysheq Shukla
#9. War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
Gustav Heinemann
#10. Dream is not the thing you see in sleep but is that thing that doesn't let you sleep.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#11. My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.
Craig Venter
#12. Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, that the object we're buying is going to make us happy.
Celso Cukierkorn
#13. We came to find me home, boy, but this is not the place. Me people once lived, here, 'tis true, but the darkness that creeped into Mithral Hall has put an end to me claim on it. I've no wish to return once I'm clear of the stench of the place, know that in yer stubborn head.
R.A. Salvatore
#14. The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.
Terry Winograd
#15. The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#16. Fang is not the huggiest person in the world - he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which
James Patterson
#17. I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I'm still in my pyjamas at nine o'clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone.
Miranda Hart
#18. Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.
Philip Kotler
#19. Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.
Asa Gray
#20. Where there is no peace; there is not the slightest religion there.
Dada Bhagwan
#21. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives.
Rick Warren
#23. Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.
John Shelby Spong
#24. In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.
Robert Towne
#25. The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
Simone Weil
#26. The most important aspect of life is not the creation, but the creator in you and the process of creation. Once you realize the flow of cosmic energy inside, along with its source, you understand the creator of the universe, and its cosmic order.
Roshan Sharma
#27. The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or petty bureaucratic intrusions.
Douglas Wilson
#28. It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#29. The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.
Stephen F. Lynch
#30. The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue - it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#31. One of the biggest challenges in investing is that the opportunity set available today is not the complete opportunity set that should be considered. Limiting your opportunity set to the one immediately at hand would be like limiting your spouse to the students you met in high school
Seth Klarman
#32. The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.
Wendell Berry
#34. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
#35. The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
I. F. Stone
#36. We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to do. This is not the time to hide.
Anne Stevens
#37. Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.
Sandra Boynton
#38. It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.
Wm. Paul Young
#39. In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.
Henri Nouwen
#40. Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.
Billy Sunday
#42. When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."
Robert Green Ingersoll
#43. Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.
George W. Bush
#44. Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.
Michael Moriarty
#45. It is not the rights of women to occupy "official" ministerial roles, nor their equality to men in those roles, that set the terms of their service to God and their neighbors. It is their obligations that do so - obligations that derive from their human abilities empowered by divine gifting.
Alan F. Johnson
#46. Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.
Virginia Postrel
#47. significant cause of rising emissions is not the reproductive behavior of the poor but the consumer behaviors of the rich.
Naomi Klein
#48. Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.
Charles F. Glassman
#49. And so he calmly responded, "Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not."* The
Walter Isaacson
#50. Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#51. God's kingship is present in the church, but it must be insisted that it is not the property of the church. It
Lesslie Newbigin
#52. Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity
Peter Drucker
#54. The shit is *not* the shit (this was Mo's mantra,) the *pigeon* is the shit.
Zadie Smith
#55. I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
Yanni
#56. Work on your goals, one step at a time. Remain focused and do not stop. You will be amazed how much you can accomplish over the years. In most things in life, it is not the speed but the consistency that matters.
Roopleen
#57. Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
Esther Perel
#58. What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
Cormac McCarthy
#59. Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast.
Terry Goodkind
#60. It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace
#61. Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw - the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere - that's the real beauty of football in England.
Roman Abramovich
#62. The endless pursuit of new life styles or academic degrees and recognition is not the way to priestly happiness.
Catherine De Hueck Doherty
#63. Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
Tom Shadyac
#64. Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#65. It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.
David Caruso
#66. 20)1Jesus is not the Christ in himself. 2The Christ is the Son of God, and no one is left outside of the Christ.
Regina Dawn Akers
#67. However, it is not the same with the subject matter, but, generally speaking, that which is true and better is naturally always easier to prove and more likely to persuade.
Aristotle.
#68. It is not the rough times endured that define your relationship, it's how you deal with them and bounce back.
Mark W. Boyer
#69. Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
John Nelson Darby
#70. There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Charles E. Wilson
#71. Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#72. Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
Albert Einstein
#73. Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.
David O. McKay
#74. A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.
Martin O'Malley
#75. Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#76. It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#77. information costs," is not the way to maximize one's investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision.
Barry Schwartz
#78. Observing is not the same as experiencing.' Li Wei gestures angrily at my stump. 'You sit there and judge others from a safe distance every day. You assume because you watch us, you understand us. But you don't.
Richelle Mead
#79. What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.
Joseph Campbell
#81. No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Lynn Abbey
#82. Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.
John F. Kennedy
#83. You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.
Billy Collins
#84. A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
Paulo Coelho
#85. I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.
Myles Munroe
#86. There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.
Scott Turow
#87. The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
#88. Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future
if mankind is to have a future
Ayn Rand
#89. Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
Moliere
#90. We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
Ezra Taft Benson
#91. The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
Bruce Lee
#92. To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.
Sidney Hook
#93. The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E.B. White
#94. This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate ... the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss ... this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.
Steve Maraboli
#95. The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
Theodor Adorno
#96. Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a 'working God.' Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#97. My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.
James Howard Kunstler
#98. Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now.
Werner Erhard
#100. What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.
Stanley Fish
