Top 100 Don't Just Talk Quotes
#1. Don't just talk about Hispanics and say immediately we must have controlled borders. It's kind of insulting when you think about it. Change the tone would be the first thing. Second, on immigration, I think we need to have a broader approach.
Jeb Bush
#2. Be peace, don't just talk about it.
Nhat Hanh
#3. There are many world leaders who are worse than [Donald] Trump.They don't just talk about violence, they practice it on an extreme scale. And we welcome them to our country.
Edward Leigh
#5. Don't Just Talk About What You can Do; Make It Happen!
Rick Levine
#8. Talk is cheap and easy; making dreams real takes hard, humble work. Dreams in the Midwest are acceptable, just keep them to yourself. Maybe tell your family, but don't just talk - do something about it.
Peter Jenkins
#9. Leaders must live by the same principles and values that they expect from their teams and people. Leadership is about action: leaders must do their part before asking others to do theirs. Walk the walk; don't just talk.
Brian Hiner
#10. Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.
Will Self
#11. We're a society that creates super heroes who aren't really super heroes. They are just regular people who live in alignment with their goals and dreams. They don't just talk about it, the LIVE it. You can choose to do the same.
Steve Maraboli
#12. CHANGE: Don't just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don't just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don't just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - Steve Maraboli
Steve Maraboli
#13. Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!
John Davidson
#14. I love the Lord with my life and through that love, I walk the walk, I don't just talk the talk.
Christian Hosoi
#15. Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.
Chris Gardner
#16. I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen.
Mitt Romney
#17. All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take action. Don't just talk about it. Don't just read and think about it. Do it.
Larry Winget
#18. A wise man once said to me, "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Actions speak louder than words. Don't just talk about what you plan to do. Make it happen.
Jes Fuhrmann
#19. People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
Dan Farmer
#20. I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time
Nas
#21. Twitter seems just to be constant updates; it seems to me as promotional tool where people talk themselves up, and I don't want it to take over what I'm doing.
Tristan MacManus
#22. I wanted to talk," he said.
"I don't want to talk," said Jared. "And I won't want to talk. Ever."
"Can we just - "
"Talk?" Jared asked. "All right, if you insist. Let's talk about the many definitions of the word no.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#23. Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#24. When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
Karen Salmansohn
#25. Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.
Nicholas Hoult
#26. Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk.
Elvis Costello
#28. People are full of things you don't know but that doesn't mean they're secrets; you just don't know everything yet.' He lets go. 'And that's good, otherwise you'd have no reason to talk anymore.
Eric Lindstrom
#29. I can't look at you. I don't want to talk to you. I just want my things. I want to go home.-Blaire Wynn
Abbi Glines
#30. There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?
Sasha Grey
#31. Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
Joschka Fischer
#32. Don't talk then. Paint. Dance. Write. Just don't hold your feelings inside. The longer we let pain hide in our hearts, the more it turns to poison.
Chelsea Sedoti
#33. I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.
Jason Schwartzman
#34. So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out.
Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.
Kami Garcia
#35. You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said.
He smiled. "No."
"Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking."
"I talk, I just want to have something to say first.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.
Ashton Shepherd
#37. Forward thinkers create a plan, focus on the plan, and execute the plan. Procrastinators just talk about the plan, get distracted with the minor things and postpone the plan. - We don't need time management, we need life management with purpose.
Farshad Asl
#38. To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just
to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.
Jon Schmidt
#39. Whenever I get to talk to young girls like me I always say, 'The only difference between you and I is that I know that I'm special and you just don't know that you are yet.'
Keke Palmer
#40. I don't really want to talk about my personal experience. It's something that I have talked about just because it came out in the press but I've tried to navigate the waters in my own comfort-ability.
Kirsten Dunst
#41. Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
#42. I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.
Mariella Frostrup
#43. I don't believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I'd rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because I don't talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have an attitude.
Shailender Singh
#44. My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.
Stefano Pessina
#45. 1. Ask: "Do you want to talk about how you're feeling?" 2. Don't ask if there's anything you can do. Suggest things, or if it's not intrusive, just do them. 3. You don't have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough. The
Will Schwalbe
#46. For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.
Jarvis Cocker
#47. In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.
Brad Pitt
#48. Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.
Grant Heslov
#49. We don't talk. We just swing. There is comfort in the act of swinging. True, unexpected comfort.
Lisa Schroeder
#50. The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.'
Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.
Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man.
Is that any way to talk to me?'
It's the way I talk to whores.
Milan Kundera
#51. I'm outgoing when I have to be, but usually, I'm kinda shy. I always think people don't want to talk to me. Some people might take that as being stuck-up, but I'm just shy.
Hilary Duff
#52. Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think about it on my own. Because it is mine. And no one else's.
Michael Rosen
#53. George Clooney likes to talk about himself in the third person mostly. He's always enjoyed it. Listen, I don't like to think in those terms, where you just have to completely separate yourself one from the other.
George Clooney
#54. I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
Laura Linney
#55. Don't talk to me about the stars, about how cold and indifferent they are, about the unimaginable distances. There are millions of stars within us that are just as far, and people like me sometimes burn up a whole life trying to reach them.
Ted Kooser
#56. I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, Don't talk. You'll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.
Susan Ee
#57. It is said that I'm distant and cold. I'm just someone who's very shy. I'm not comfortable doing interviews because I have to talk about myself. To talk about yourself, you have to know yourself pretty well and I feel like there are still some shades in me that I don't know about.
Kristen Stewart
#58. You guys are not leaving me out there. They're going to talk books and sex. And the books are about sex. Who knew women were so damn chatty about sex? Men don't do that. We just look at a girl, announce we did her, and everyone moves on.
Lexi Blake
#59. Sometimes when we're standing at the edge, we don't need anyone to talk us down ... we just need a push.
Buffi Neal
#60. There's an elitism that comes out with the entertainment industry. I'll talk about some shows, but I'm not gonna say that you're dumb for watching one over the other. I just let it go. I don't have to declare a fatwa on any of these things. I've gotten over some of my elitism.
W. Kamau Bell
#61. I think it's corny and cheesy for a dude to holler at a girl. That's just disrespectful in my mind. I may talk to girls, but I don't hang with girls; I don't date girls. I haven't really found anybody.
Rob Kardashian
#62. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.
Mario Puzo
#63. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe
#64. What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the fact that I wanted to talk. I was not there to plug things. I don't do a hell of a lot of research. I go on a sort of kindred-spirit bonding that preexists the interview, and just see what unfolds.
Marc Maron
#65. Well, you're my roommate. You've smoked my pot. That makes us bros. It's not really anything crazy, though. We just meet a couple times a week and fuck." "Just sex? You don't talk or anything? Or hang out?" "We usually smoke a bowl, fuck,
Jasinda Wilder
#66. When she brought Mira up, Eve gave Roarke another glance. "Don't talk to him," she warned. "He can get bitchy when he's in this deep. I don't know if we have any of that tea stuff."
"I had it stocked, and I don't get bitchy. Bloody, buggering HELL."
Eve just rolled her eyes and got the tea.
J.D. Robb
#67. I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Sally Kirkland
#68. I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
Charles De Lint
#69. If I got to pick anyone, anyone at all, to be stranded on a deserted planet with, it would be you, I always want to be with you. And not just ... not just to talk to. When you touch me ... I don't want you to stop.
Stephenie Meyer
#70. Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
#71. I believe Donald Trump is the best guy for president; and I'm not going to shy away and I take the risk. I could just stay home and don't talk about any candidate.
Joe Arpaio
#72. We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.
Donny Miller
#73. When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
Barack Obama
#75. People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.
Chuck Palahniuk
#76. I think it's weird how vanilla people just jump into a bed and fuck and don't ever relish the moment, don't talk to each other about what works and what doesn't. So many people just expect sex to happen, but really great sex takes work, like everything in life. You have to talk to your partner.
Lexi Blake
#77. There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.
Robert C. Solomon
#78. I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.
Ben Roethlisberger
#79. You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.
Christoph Waltz
#80. It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence ...
Eddie Vedder
#81. A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
Afrika Bambaataa
#82. So, why the hell don't adults talk about anything interesting anyway? Or maybe it's just the ones I know, but really, what the fuck?
Victor David Giron
#83. Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.
Ellen Pompeo
#84. Those are for us,' growls Detering. 'Don't talk rubbish,' Kat snaps back at him. 'You'll be lucky to get a coffin at all,' grins Tjaden, 'they'll just use a tarpaulin to wrap up that target-practice dummy you call a body, you wait and see.
Erich Maria Remarque
#85. Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us."
When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. "Now what's up?" I asked.
"Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that."
I said: "if you're lying to the old man, God'll punish you.
Dashiell Hammett
#86. Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#87. Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.
Sue Johanson
#88. I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.
Norah Jones
#89. You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left," they'll do it.
Nina Hartley
#90. The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was just a boy. We must believe in God, he told me, because if we don't we will have to believe in man, and then we will only be disappointed.
Anna Funder
#91. Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.
Jamie Oliver
#92. And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
Betty Ford
#93. I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.
Michael Ironside
#94. You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.
Christopher Moore
#95. We don't have to tell secrets. We don't have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff.
Tracy Brogan
#96. I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
Annie Lennox
#97. At one point she said something along the lines of: 'But if the soul is ageless, I don't know why we should be so worried about all this', then realized that it was all right just to relax and talk about superficial subjects.
Paulo Coelho
#98. You don't always need to talk with experts; sometimes the consumer, who just might be a friend or acquaintance, is your best consultant.
Blake Mycoskie
#99. Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.
Chris Bosh
#100. To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.
Tim Allen
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