Quotes of: It-is-what-it-is Keyword

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Mark Twain

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

Namie Amuro

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Namie Amuro

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

Neve Campbell

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Agnes Martin

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Herbert Marcuse

What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street.

Marco Rubio

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

Arnold Palmer

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

Hilary Duff

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Samantha Power

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

Jill Lepore

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

Marc Jacobs

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

Natasha Trethewey