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

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Earl Nightingale

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

Elinor Ostrom

I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

Ellen Page

What is Twitter?! I don't know what Twitter is! Everyone keeps inviting me to Twitter and everyone's going on about twittering and tweeting and this whole thing, and I just don't understand it.

Emma Roberts

I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their children are eating.

Eric Schlosser

there exist a great parity between things inside books and things outside books. What are inside books, are not all that different from what are outside books

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

Freddy Adu

But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish them was what attracted them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Felix Frankfurter

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Franz Kafka

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

Frank Miller

Be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

F.B. Newman

Always be careful what you say. You can say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

F.B. Newman

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

Flannery O'Connor

But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?

Fernando Pessoa

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Frances Wright

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

George Carlin

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

Graydon Carter

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

Cus D'Amato

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

Charlotte Eriksson