Top 100 What It Is Quotes
#1. This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
#2. Mankind, He has told you what is good u and what it is the Lord requires of you: v to act justly, w to love faithfulness, x and to walk humbly with your God. y
Anonymous
#3. I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are colors I cannot see. As though I have ears, but there's a range of notes I cannot hear.
Franny Billingsley
#4. A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too.
Larry McMurtry
#5. This book has awoken something in me. I don't know what it is, but it feels good.
C.M. Stunich
#6. This is what it is like to be married: conversations in which no one actually speaks.
Anna Quindlen
#7. 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
#8. You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.
Harry Styles
#9. Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.
Joe Morton
#10. You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.
Jon Bon Jovi
#11. A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
Terry Brooks
#12. I'll play it and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis
#13. You have to do all you can as a parent to stop your kid from doing all the craziness that's going on in the world. And although I still have music that's saying one thing, I still let them know what it is, and I'm not doing anything in my music that I wouldn't tell my kids about.
Ginuwine
#14. If there exists in this universe anything more infuriating and crazy-making than a man, I don't know what it is, thank you, and I don't want to know.
Jill Conner Browne
#15. Insofar as a purely transient construction of flesh and blood can remember (or foretell) what it is to be stone, Lucy understood the mountain's wish to listen at the window of a den of gamblers and be warmed by all that free-floating hope and desolation.
Helen Oyeyemi
#16. I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.
Stephane Hessel
#17. Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#18. I loved you, you know ... It's not my fault the world is what it is.
Ed Brubaker
#20. 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
#21. Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.
James Frey
#22. I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.
Dave Davies
#23. The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much.
Albert Camus
#24. Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.
Jaggi Vasudev
#25. A perfect word left behind in an imperfect World who does not know what it is capable of
Rosemarie Yusen
#26. I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
David Mamet
#27. Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
L.M. Montgomery
#28. Real-time marketing is not for everyone. To take advantage of it, you need to have a clear idea of what it is you want to achieve through it.
David Amerland
#29. They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see.
... No, a book wasn't invulnerable to the appearance of its cover, not by any means.
Ken Kesey
#30. Even though we may want something so badly, most times when it arrives we cannot see the thing for what it is. Opportunity knocks all the time, Molly, but it is your responsibility to open the door.
Kent Allan Rees
#31. '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
#32. I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
Don Rickles
#33. Ask yourself what it is you want more, to ease your ancient fear or to revenge your childish dopey injured male pride." I
Don DeLillo
#34. Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.
Richard Rohr
#35. My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
Karen Duffy
#36. People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
David Petraeus
#37. It's nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn't trapped in a hovering prison in the men's bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.
Cecil Baldwin
#38. People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meaning to the music, and thats great when this happens because it shows its striking a chord.
Enya
#39. 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
#40. When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
Haruki Murakami
#41. Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.
Honore De Balzac
#42. But when Robert touches me in just the right way, I forget. I forget what it is I want, or rather I forget that I want anything other than him.
Kyra Davis
#43. There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.
Jean Craighead George
#44. Enjoy fantasy for what it is, fantastic! Not for what it might be.
Marie Clair
#45. I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is.
Jeffrey DeMunn
#46. Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#47. There's just something so amazing about being anywhere, and some music starts playing, and you just hold up your phone and can find out what it is. You never again have to say, 'That's a great song! Who is it by?'
Phil Schiller
#48. If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand.' It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.
Richard Saul Wurman
#49. I have something very important to say to you, but I can't tell you what it is. It's a very important thing, but I'll tell you another time.
Rhona Cameron
#50. Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.
Milton Berle
#51. I don't know what it is I exude.
But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!
Janet Leigh
#52. Salvation: to see each thing for what it is - its nature and its purpose.
To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.
What else could it be but to live life fully - to pay out goodness
like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.
Marcus Aurelius
#53. Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.
Simon S. Tam
#54. Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what it is, but it's critical to know what it was
Texas Bix Bender
#55. I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.
Kali Hawk
#56. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.
Ken Blanchard
#57. Your soul is Me, and it knows it. What it is doing, is trying to experience that. And what it is remembering is that the best way to have this experience is by not doing anything. There is nothing to do but to be.
Neale Donald Walsch
#58. Zeal
what is it? How shall I describe it? Possess it, and you will know what it is. Be consumed with love for Christ, and let the flame burn continuously, not flaming up at public meetings and dying out in the routine work of every day.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.
Joseph Butler
#61. It is too difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it.
Erin Morgenstern
#62. And don't knock nepotism, Cheeseman; my well-connected uncles all agree, nepotism made this country what it is today.
David Mitchell
#63. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Alexandre Dumas
#64. Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.
Shia Labeouf
#65. I dont know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe its because when youre headed somewhere, you dont have to be where youve already been.
Steve Hofstetter
#66. There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone
John Stuart Mill
#67. I want to venture a hypothesis that, roughly expressed, goes like this: you cannot learn to love yourself until you find something in the world to love; no matter what it is. A dog, a garden, a tree,a flight of birds, a friend ... Because what we love in ourselves is ourselves loving.
John Burnside
#68. The significance of things can only evolve in time.Nothing is what it is until it becomes what it must become
Gaye Shortland
#69. 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
#70. The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Why, with all this good intention, does it still feel so muddy when we talk about culture, what it is, and how to make it better? It's because we're trying to bring personal growth and spiritual ideas into the workplace without first changing the underlying agreement that governs it. The
Jonathan Raymond
#72. Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.
Jason Reitman
#73. I'm a big PAX person ... just because it's accessible. I feel like between the weed and the wax it's kind of like BetaMax and VHS. You can carry it around, people don't really know what it is, no smell.
Donald Glover
#74. You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.
Upasana Saraf
#75. Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.
Andy Samberg
#76. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.
Adele
#77. You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You'll never be the same man again.
Raymond E. Feist
#78. U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract
Wayne Dyer
#79. That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.
Terry Pratchett
#80. It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'.
Joyce Rachelle
#81. Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.
Judith Merril
#82. Abandonment - and that's precisely what it is-is never a solution. It never takes away pain, but only adds to it.
Eric Mason
#83. Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.
Samael Aun Weor
#84. They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
T. S. Eliot
#85. I don't know what it is about Ackbar that tends to quash arguments. He has a kind of moist charisma, I guess, that no one wants to challenge. I know I don't want to dispute him, anyway.
Kevin Hearne
#86. I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.
Herschel Walker
#87. Anyway,' she said more seriously this time, 'whatever it takes, find out what it is you're willing to suffer for. You've got to balance pleasure with pain in this life.
Okamoto Kanoko
#88. Sandpaw, put that fire ant down. No, I don't care that Firepaw might not know what it is.
Erin Hunter
#89. WHAT IT IS
It is what
it is. But
what is it?
What it is
Some soft
tautology
whose terms
are touch
Time to give, time
to give it up.
Maggie Nelson
#90. I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.
Erin Duffy
#91. Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.
Brian Behlendorf
#92. Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.
Robert D. Hare
#93. If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.
Chali 2na
#94. Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself
Alice Walker
#95. [ ... ] leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree against golden heavens; ripples of light on the inner curve of a bridge; a thing impossible to capture.
Vladimir Nabokov
#96. When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.
Tracy McMillan
#97. 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
#98. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
C. G. Jung
#99. You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.
Charles Dickens
#100. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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