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It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.

It is not worrying, but rather trusting and abiding in the peace of God that will crush anything that Satan tries to do to us. If the Lord created the world out of chaos, He can easily deal with any problem that we have.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try something but let's also be very thoughtful about what that something is.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

It is only when we possess ourselves that we can give ourselves to others. If what we possess feels wrong, bad, or wicked, then we try not only to hide it from others, but we also try to hide it from ourselves.

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake - fairly or unfairly - get me off to a bad start with a person.

It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.

It is really really important that you deal with Trump either by letter or by personal contact. Trying to deal with him on telephones or through the media is not a good idea.

It is said that if our intention is to help others-even if we are unable to follow it through-we will never have any regret. Regret is a result of trying to make "me" happy.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.