Isn Quotes

897 Isn quotes by 623 unique authors

In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on… — Greg Mortenson
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? — George Carlin
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades… — Richard Dawkins
Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? — George Carlin
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after… — Boris Pasternak
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for… — Gregory Maguire
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our… — Eudora Welty
Why isn’t the word “phonetically” spelled with an “f”? — Steven Wright
Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but… — Robert A. Heinlein
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. — Eckhart Tolle
Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich? — Bill Bryson
[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are serious about following… — Rob Bell
Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be. — Rob Bell
Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that… — Oprah Winfrey
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that… — Tom Hodgkinson
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out… — Eckhart Tolle
What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for… — Jodi Picoult
Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life? — Gustave Flaubert
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the… — Gustave Flaubert
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s… — Aidan Chambers
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. — Gustave Flaubert
It’s true, isn’t it? Then what else really matters? — Gordon B. Hinckley
Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but… — Julian Barnes

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