Top 100 That Is Quotes
#1. JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere.
Alfred Jarry
#2. I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
Gary Neville
#3. Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.
Charles Studd
#4. One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
Ray Stannard Baker
#5. I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
Richard Rogers
#6. I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love ...
David Bowie
#7. We need to start a new philisophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life.
Jandy Nelson
#8. Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
Karl Lagerfeld
#9. The Orient was Orientalized not only because it was discovered to be "Oriental" in all those ways considered commonplace by an average nineteenth-century European, but also because it could be - that is, submitted to being - made Oriental.
Edward W. Said
#10. There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?
Richard Dawkins
#12. So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick with it. And that is all: contingent and brutal without meaning. There is nothing to be learnt here. No ecstatic forgetting. There is no redemption in the sea.
China Mieville
#14. Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland , covered with rubbish heaps, and the hanging garden of the Great Khan's palace. It is our eyelids that separate them, but we cannot know which is inside and which outside
Anonymous
#15. The preaching of God's word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ.
William Tyndale
#16. We cannot hide behind high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.
David Gemmell
#17. Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Baltasar Gracian
#18. I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
Ayn Rand
#19. I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#20. I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
Lee Child
#21. I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
Michel Gondry
#22. That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
John Amery
#23. Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.
Alexandre Dumas
#25. Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that is completely all right. We are who we are - and so is everyone else.
Joan D. Chittister
#26. Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.
Friedrich Schiller
#27. An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.
Ameen Rihani
#28. The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible.
Dennis Miller
#29. Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
George MacDonald
#30. It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.
Tony Dungy
#31. I am a believer, I am believer that we shape and create the life that we choose, and I believe that the tool that we have to do that, is our mind.
Kai Greene
#32. Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
C.S. Lewis
#33. You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail.
Jim Butcher
#34. I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
Karin Slaughter
#35. if someone merely wishes to provoke you, shake the dust from your feet and carry on. Fight only with a worthy opponent, and not with someone who uses trickery to prolong a war that is already over, as does sometimes happen.
Paulo Coelho
#36. For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.
Anne Waldman
#37. I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.
Annabeth Gish
#38. The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
Natasha Leggero
#39. When the aromatic savour of the pine goes searching into the deepest recesses of my lungs, I know it is life that is entering. I draw life in through the delicate hairs of my nostrils.
Nan Shepherd
#40. Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
Plato
#42. A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives ... that is the miracle of marriage.
Denis De Rougemont
#43. Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.
George R R Martin
#44. We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
David McCullough
#45. It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.
James Hunter
#46. I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.
Woodrow Wilson
#47. Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.
C.S. Lewis
#48. The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. Bush
#49. Practice," Shallan said. "I should suspect that is how everyone learns, eventually.
Brandon Sanderson
#50. I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
Bruce Conner
#51. Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.
Jason Alexander
#52. The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested.
E. M. Forster
#53. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
Dale Carnegie
#54. A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
Peter Landesman
#55. That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#56. I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.
Tony Dungy
#57. Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.
Deepak Chopra
#58. Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.
Nick Hanauer
#59. Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.
Erma Bombeck
#60. Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.
Vladimir Lenin
#61. That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.
T. S. Eliot
#62. The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
Tania Bruguera
#63. But there is a second answer to the question of why greatness, one that is at the very heart of what motivated us to undertake this huge project in the first place: the search for meaning, or more precisely, the search for meaningful work. I
James C. Collins
#64. What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
Doris Lessing
#65. We have nothing that is really our own; we hold everything as a loan.
Nicolas Poussin
#66. It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#67. I waded out of the sea while loving it still, even as I had earlier dropped from the stars while loving them; and in truth there is no place in Briah that is not lovely when it no longer holds the threat of death, save for the places men have made so.
Gene Wolfe
#68. There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
Ian Gardner
#69. Creativity cannot be placed in a box. There is no right or wrong, just a human being daring to share their idea of beauty. Their unique expression will either delight and resonate with you or it won't. But every creation is beautiful to someone, if only its maker, and that is enough.
Gabriel Lea
#70. When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
Pierre Bonnard
#71. No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
Marvin Minsky
#72. I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.
Pete Doherty
#73. That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournier
#74. God does remain in a state of witnessing (sakshibhav), but that is a worldly God. Worldly God means witnessing through 'egoism'. If one constantly remains in the witnessing state, then he would not bind karma.
Dada Bhagwan
#75. There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#77. The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.
H.L. Mencken
#78. I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.
Luis Gonzalez
#79. I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
Uday Kotak
#80. I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas.
Jan Koum
#82. Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#83. I'm 25 and just trying to understand women. Obviously, that is a process that never ends.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#84. Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.
Larry Winget
#85. I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.
Liz Halliday
#86. Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
Jean Piaget
#87. Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness ...
Guillermo Del Toro
#88. Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#89. I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.
Jon Oringer
#90. You forsake all that you hold dear,
for a dream that is not your own;
you would rather live a lie
than live your life alone
Lang Leav
#91. We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
Wayne Rogers
#92. Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
Chanakya
#93. I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.
Channing Tatum
#94. A friendship will stand the test of time when all the good that is given is repaid in kind.
Theodore Volgoff
#95. If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no place for you in it. You will come back with me and take the place that is yours in my heart. No obligations to the past stand in the way. We will marry.
Addis de Valence
Madeline Hunter
#96. I no longer pursue happiness, for it alludes me in every occasion. It is as if I'm trying to find something that is invisible, and sometimes I can't help to wonder if I'm the only one who it is oblivious to
Dave Guerrero
#97. Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.
Elisabeth Elliot
#98. What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
Marcel Duchamp
#99. Natural for you, perfectly natural," the Professor whispered. "Natural to refuse the key that is given. To be blind in the darkness of knowing. To be filled with a dark light that we must shine on the people around us. A light that makes us weep and pull down our own houses.
Timothy Taylor
#100. There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Pierce
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