Top 100 It Is Not Quotes
#1. Oh! it is not my remembering God, it is God's remembering me which is the ground of my safety; it is not my laying hold of His covenant, but His covenant's laying hold on me.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#2. It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.
Andres Segovia
#3. If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#4. No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
Floyd Abrams
#5. 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
#6. Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak.
G.K. Chesterton
#7. Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace
a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
Edward Abbey
#8. We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
Plato
#9. It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.
Matthew Henry
#10. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#11. It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
Anthony Collins
#12. No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in. . . .
Leo Tolstoy
#13. Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Laurence Olivier
#14. Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting ... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. If your opinion needs to be corrected than it is not your opinion.
Kim Yannayon
#16. It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.
Graham Sutherland
#17. To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#18. In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.
Fulton J. Sheen
#19. It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
B.C. Forbes
#20. If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
African Spir
#21. Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.
Arsene Wenger
#22. The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
Timothy Keller
#23. Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life
but may be a penetration into reality ... as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.
Henry Moore
#24. It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#25. When you rest, realize it is not simply ceasing from activity ... it is a gift from God.
Dillon Burroughs
#26. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
A.B. Simpson
#27. It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch
Ronaldinho
#28. It is not too late to fall in love with yourself again.
Debasish Mridha
#29. It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.
Thomas Davis
#30. Kah Circe, you are kah Lahnahsahna, you are my warrior queen. It is who you are. It is not what anyone made you. It shines from your eyes.
Kristen Ashley
#31. That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
Joseph Goebbels
#32. HIV is not what defines me. You get that? It is not what defines me. I am not my disease. I am a human being. A guy
J.H. Trumble
#33. Is it real? No, it is not real. What is this not real? Not real can tell us about real.
Margaret Atwood
#34. because it happens in your head, does not mean it is not real.' This
Rena Rocford
#35. In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.
Peter Rollins
#36. 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
#37. Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.
Nguyen Quyen
#38. Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
Howard Fast
#39. It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .
Cesare Pavese
#40. The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.
Samuel Reshevsky
#41. It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#42. In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.
Ted Gup
#43. The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
Richard Bach
#44. You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#45. If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.
Iamblichus
#46. is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.
S.M. Butler
#47. I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
Erica Jong
#48. Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved.
Albert E. Bowen
#49. Mr. Beckwith, it is not possible for me to believe that God sees any true love as evil, no matter what the words of man might tell you. Hate is the only truly evil thing in the world. Second only to it false love, followed by its twin, hypocrisy. If your love was true, then it was blessed.
Ulysses Grant Dietz
#51. Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.
John Climacus
#52. 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
#53. If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.
Liz Rosenberg
#54. It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
#55. Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
Dorothy Parker
#56. Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar
Jim Elliot
#57. It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.
Malala Yousafzai
#58. Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
Raini Rodriguez
#59. I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#60. 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
#61. It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy ...
Rajneesh
#62. When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?
Epictetus
#63. Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours ... not somebody else's ... it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth ... yours and mine.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#64. The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.
Jackie Chan
#65. Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Helen Keller
#66. It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.
Ole Hallesby
#68. It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.
Max Weber
#69. It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.
Mother Teresa
#70. It is not so bad. It is just, when I come home so tired, and then he ... I do not enjoy it. My ... my marital duties."
"Oh, my God ... He makes you do chores?!?
Joss Whedon
#71. I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#72. We don't own mission, and it is not ours to define.
Ed Stetzer
#73. It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.
William Carlos Williams
#74. My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
Charlie Chaplin
#75. Because if you are fragmented and uncertain it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. Survival in a desert, then, requires that you lose this fragmentation, and fast. It is not a mystical experience, or rather, it is dangerous to attach these sorts of words to it.
Robyn Davidson
#76. It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.
Charlie Day
#77. It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
#78. It is not who you are underneath but it is what underwear you wear and what you do that defines you
Bruce Wayne
#79. We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.
Margaret Thatcher
#80. When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame De Stael
#81. It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.
Mark Twain
#82. There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.
Arjuna Ranatunga
#83. It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer
#84. Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
Dogen
#85. Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century.
Eoin Colfer
#86. Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go. (Works, 59)
Robert Murray McCheyne
#87. Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?
Kristin Cashore
#88. Shaping someone's understanding of the things of God is a huge responsiblity, and it is not to be taken lightly.
Jen Wilkin
#89. You are not the most intelligent creature in the universe. You are not even the most intelligent creature on your planet. The tonal language in the song of a humpback whale displays more complexity than the entire works of Shakespeare. It is not a competition. Well, it is. But don't worry about it.
Matt Haig
#90. It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#91. The one contains what is accepted as necessary when it is not yet so; the others, what is imagined as possible and, a moment later, is possible no longer.
Italo Calvino
#92. Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.
Samuel Butler
#93. It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
Simon Sinek
#94. And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
#95. It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.
Brian Trubshaw
#96. Only as equals can we keep the peace. It is not in our nature, but it is the only way to survive.
Rachel Caine
#97. Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin
#98. It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Denis Diderot
#99. Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
Francis Bacon
#100. This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it - your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all.
James Howe
