Isn Quotes
897 quotes by 631 authors
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Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy,…
— Timothy Keller
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Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.
— Josephine Tey
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The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the…
— David Ogilvy
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Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the…
— Daniel Gilbert
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Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot…
— Jim Butcher
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Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that…
— Gillian Flynn
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Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity…
— Tim Cook
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Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the…
— Howard Lyman
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Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving…
— Francis Chan
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Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
— Bill Hicks
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Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s about seeing connections…
— Tory Burch
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For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing.…
— Helen Vendler
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Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to…
— Noah Levine
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Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of
— Manuel Puig
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There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very…
— Pierre Klossowski
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All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify
— Erving Goffman
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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is…
— Pema Chodron
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Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of…
— Jack Kornfield
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