Top 100 Is What It Is Quotes
#1. Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.
Miyamoto Musashi
#2. When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."
James Patterson
#3. It is what it is"... and "You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time, and sometimes when life throws things at you that are pretty challanging and it is really big elephant, envision it to be chocolate covered to make the bites much more yummy and easier to swallow."
T.L. Wood
#4. There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them. As an actress, you get to go to these events and wear their things - it's fun, but it is what it is. I don't put a lot of time into it, but I respect what they do.
Penelope Cruz
#5. Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is arrogance. Life merely is what it is, neither more nor less. To deem it less because it is not more is to heed the counsels of the Despiser.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#6. True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#7. Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of "is" and "it.
Tom Robbins
#8. You know deep down something is over a long time before you face it and do something about it. In bed, as in life, we pass through endless little deaths and wake reborn from them to start again. This is what it is to be human.
Chloe Thurlow
#9. life is then, in sum, "constantly deciding what we are going to be."[78] As a result, our life is intrinsically a collision with the future. Thus, "life is futurity, it is what it is not yet."[79]
Oswald Sobrino
#10. IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.
Scott Dixon
#11. Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
Venus Williams
#12. I think you're bound to feel guilty, and you're going to feel sad. You have to simply feel it. Don't hate yourself. It is what it is.
Mhairi McFarlane
#13. I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As a new mom, it is what it is, and we just have to do our best.
Kourtney Kardashian
#14. My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.
Misty Copeland
#15. The streets made me. They stay at me. There's nothing that's gonna take away from my legacy. I'm sorry. It is what it is. I'm dying this way. With the crown on my head, nobody can take nothing away from me. It is what it is. I am who I am. Bottom line.
Lil' Kim
#16. It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else ... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
Dan Flavin
#17. This is what it is, to be an Abhorsen.
Garth Nix
#18. Life's experiences are not woven with a constant thread; Life in our world is constantly changing. We must repurpose what we have endured and the lessons we have learned; creating a renewed sense of hope. Life is what it is. The question is... What are you willing to do to change your life?
Brian Michael Good
#19. America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait ... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.
Isabel Wilkerson
#20. Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your brain happening right now. And if that's happening now, what's actually happening right now isn't really happening for you at all. This is what it is meant when people say, live in the present.
Dan Pearce
#21. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what it is; I tend not to do that.
Harry Styles
#22. Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
Michael Keaton
#23. One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.
Stuart Pearson Wright
#24. Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.
David Cottrell
#25. We don't know why anything is what it is. It just is.
Marty Rubin
#26. It's screwed up, is what it is. Ain't normal to rain roses. That's like a clock running backward, or well water turning to blood.
Jodi Picoult
#27. But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
Jimmy Page
#29. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#30. I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is.
Lorde
#31. Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!
Rod Stewart
#32. Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
#33. It's hard to train that in practice time. You can make calls, you can make adjustments, but just that pressure, 'This is what it is, this is reality, I need to concentrate on every play,' that's what we've got to get through.
Bret Bielema
#34. It's fucking lame, is what it is! The swords look like they were made out of tinfoil. And that soundtrack is epically lame. Full of synthesizers and shit. By the motherfucking Alan Parsons Project! Lame-o-rama! Beyond lame. Highlander II lame.
Ernest Cline
#35. Instead of using the expression "It is what it is," just shut up.
Bill Maher
#36. Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.
Frederick Lenz
#37. It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.
Queen Latifah
#38. It's perverting the course of justice is what it is. Do
Bess Hart
#39. My intellect tells me read between the lines.. No need to humor something that is what it is and is not what it was.
Phil Thersby
#40. I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.
Paul Farmer
#41. Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.
Lisa Randall
#44. It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.
Giles Duley
#45. I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.
Rosie O'Donnell
#46. My public Facebook page is what it is. My Twitter account is sort of what it is, but if I'm totally honest with you, that is not my personal, private self. I have another Facebook page that is devoted to my dear friends and family, and they can keep in touch with me that way.
Tim Daly
#47. A thing is what it is....and not something else.
Robert Parker
#49. Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future.
Sabrina Paige
#50. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not being forced out. It is what it is. I have no reason to lie.
Mike Hargrove
#51. I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.
Steven Strait
#52. Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be home looking at how the math tutor was today. But it is what it is.
Renee James
#53. Dawn
5am: the frogs
ask what is it, what is it?
It is what it is.
Campbell McGrath
#54. For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.
Jodi Picoult
#55. One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
Neil Young
#56. I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.
James Durbin
#57. The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.
Drew Brees
#58. You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.
Sufjan Stevens
#59. In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
James Schuyler
#60. We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you will helplessly believe what I believe. I will give you my reasons and reasons are contagious. That is what it is to be a rational human being.
Sam Harris
#61. Some of these new country singers aren't really country. I think some of them ought to be singing pop music and just leave country alone. You don't have to see them, you can hear it. It is what it is, I guess, but I'd still rather they just let the ones that sing country sing country.
Loretta Lynn
#62. It is what it is. It, meaning terrorism. Terrorism is what it is,
Gretchen Carlson
#63. It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.
John Szarkowski
#64. We are what we are, and life is what it is, but God is bigger than any cross we bear
Kate Wicker
#65. The past is what it is - good and bad, it's written and unchanging. And there's solace to be had in that.
J.R. Ward
#66. I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
Tarvaris Jackson
#67. I feel like the human body is what it is, and the more you make yourself comfortable with it, the better off you are. Love your body and embrace that.
Mehcad Brooks
#68. I cannot understand the motivation of a bully, is what it is; this is the one thing that makes me unreasonable. I
Patrick DeWitt
#69. Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best we can. We show up. We strive for gratitude, and try not to be such babies.
Anne Lamott
#70. A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.
John Curran
#71. You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."
Lenny Kravitz
#72. All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
Markus Zusak
#73. Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
Jeb Bush
#74. This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
#75. If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it.
Bruce Lee
#76. The significance of things can only evolve in time.Nothing is what it is until it becomes what it must become
Gaye Shortland
#77. Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.
Joseph Butler
#78. I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.
Jeremy Luke
#79. Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.
Richard Rohr
#80. 'It would be great not to have to deal with any of this. When I found out, I wished Killian could have wiped my memories so I wouldn't have to know that all this shit exists. I was like, "Vampires can get rid of memories. What are you good for?" But it is what it is.'
Tara Lain
#81. The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much.
Albert Camus
#82. Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.
Charles A. Reich
#84. I loved you, you know ... It's not my fault the world is what it is.
Ed Brubaker
#85. In the end," Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, "it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That's what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It's lonely. It's impossible. It's all-consuming." It is what it is.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#86. This is what it is like to be married: conversations in which no one actually speaks.
Anna Quindlen
#87. Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
Chinua Achebe
#88. This is what it is to be a muse. I walk the line between want and need, between power and submission. And I make the hard choices.
Cora Carmack
#89. I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.
Hugh Hefner
#90. If only this mist would clear, it would be a lovely day," she said faintly.
"And if only the clouds would thicken up it would be a miserable day," Mr. Allen contributed from behind the paper. "It is what it is.
Val McDermid
#91. This City is what it is because are citizens are what they are " -Plato
Red Wemette
#92. You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.
Jim Shepard
#93. When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one's soul with recognition. 'Heaven' seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.
Victoria Kahler
#94. The world is what it is: those who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Sir Vidya Naipaul
#95. I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#96. This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.
Sarah Ruhl
#97. To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#98. Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.
Rick Springfield
#99. This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
Janet Malcolm
#100. Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is after a wide consensus and unity for political change in Greece. This is something that departs from the narrow limits of the radical left.
Alexis Tsipras
