It Is Not Quotes

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

I am afraid of the worst, but I am not sure what that is.

I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.

I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next, I learned all that matters is now.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Save myself from death is that it?! Is that why I've come here?! I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death!

Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent--always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.

I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.