Top 100 Either You Quotes
#1. Leaving home does something to your sense of identity. Either you become more of that place than you ever were while you lived there, or your identity calcifies around the rejection of this place. It is challenging to inhabit the space between these two positions.
Sari Botton
#2. You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money.
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.
Thomas Leonard
#4. Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?
David E. Hoffman
#5. To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not.
Joyce Carol Oates
#6. Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. That's because you loved me. You just didn't know it yet."
"You didn't know it either. You were just as blind as me.
Jessica Sorensen
#8. Either you take a path, RIGHT or LEFT, and if it was a mistake, turn back and take the other path, because your are the one who can change it.
Adel Sakura
#9. Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. Do what you want to do, and with the people you love. Learn to appreciate time and make doing so a habit. And if you want to do nothing, then enjoy doing it well. Why do anything by half? Why live a life diluted? What's the use?
Carew Papritz
#10. you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current - as
Charlotte Bronte
#12. Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.
Duke Ellington
#13. Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Alex Haley
#14. When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
Gautam Adani
#16. There are just two ways in life..either you do it or you don't!!
Tripta Arora
#17. It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
Kara Swisher
#18. Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
Daniel Handler
#19. Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
J. B. Pritzker
#20. As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that's no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
Pauline Reage
#21. And what you thought you came for
is only a shell, a husk of meaning
from which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled
if at all. Either you had no purpose
or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
And is altered in fulfillment.
T. S. Eliot
#22. Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.
Mike Krieger
#23. She knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think
or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#24. Unless the nightmare is strong enough to wake you up you go right on retreating, and either you end up on a bench or you end up as vice-president. It's all one and the same, a bloody fucking mess, a farce, a fiasco from start to finish.
Henry Miller
#25. God says that, 'Either you tell me that you want only God, or you tell me that you want this worldly life; then I will give it to you.' Do these people really want God? They actually want a house, they want wife and children.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.
Orrin Woodward
#27. Sleepless nights?
Either you are in love or you are on a mission. For some.... it's the same.
Shikha Kaul
#28. You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.
Jenny Han
#29. To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.
Rebecca Eaton
#30. Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.
Lamar Odom
#31. Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.
Greg Laurie
#32. Get away from me, you sick fuck!"
"I'm not the one who kidnapped you, so save it. Either you want the water and aspirin or you can eat shit and die, your choice."
Lyonette groaned. "Maya.
Dot Hutchison
#34. I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.
Sunil Mittal
#36. Usually it seems like either you sacrifice something and a lot of people will pay attention, or you stay true to yourself and appeal to a smaller group of people, but now we've managed to do what we felt was the right thing to do in our heart and had it reach a wide audience. It feels very rare.
Jack Antonoff
#37. Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. Don't get cute. Don't brag. Just state the facts.
Austin Kleon
#38. Either you're one hell of an actress, or you're the dumbest person to ever walk the face of this planet.
Kimberly Spencer
#39. Either you're an able being, or you're not. Able
Leah Remini
#40. Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo.
Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.
Rajneesh
#41. You couldn't think of after, you only thought of now, and come to think of it, you didn't do that either -- you were left with pools of memory, each stranded from the next by time pulling forward like a tide.
Nam Le
#42. You don't have to come here to see them, Cory. Or to see me, either. You really don't. You don't have to leave what is, to visit what was.
Robert McCammon
#43. There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.
John Kessel
#44. Either you have your dreams or you live your dreams.
Zoe Koplowitz
#45. Your refusal to forgive one who has sinned against you us a manifestation of hypocrisy - a telltale sign that either you have not experenced God's forgiving grace, or that you take such grace for granted.
Joe Thorn
#46. It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just ... still alive.
Isaac Marion
#47. You don't always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else's problems. Sometimes it's okay to let somebody else worry about you.
Alyssa Day
#48. There's this world,' she banged the wall graphically, 'and there's this world,' she thumped her chest. 'If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.
Jeanette Winterson
#49. Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.
L. Frank Baum
#50. To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.
Mignon McLaughlin
#51. In life, you would regret definitely, either you become good person or the bad one, but being good is better to regret for
-Samar Sudha
Samar Sudha
#52. Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
Jeremy Clarkson
#53. There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite
#54. It's always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I'm wrong, or I'm right, either you bring us back, or you don't, either Deputy Chiefs are what they say they are, or they're not. Always fifty-fifty. One thing or the other is always true.
Lee Child
#55. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
Ben Affleck
#56. I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.
Curtis Jackson
#57. Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.
Robin Farina
#59. For politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not
Joyce Carol Oates
#60. I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.
Eleanor Catton
#61. There are two ways to change things: Either you are forced to change or you have the intuition to change.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#62. Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
Jerry Garcia
#63. There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.
Henry A. Kissinger
#64. We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."
John Hurt
#65. Young sir, this merchant is in the right, and whatever his trade may be, his blood is as good as your own. After your brave words, either you should fight him or take back the blow you gave. Then he leaned down
H. Rider Haggard
#66. Either you can have life or you can be remembered in history
Osho
#67. Qualified help was weak and timid. Either you come out dead against the attachment or else help without reservation, without giving the impression of reluctance and disapproval.
Winston Graham
#68. Life teach you everything either you want to learn it or not ...
Nutan Bajracharya
#69. EITHER you have work or you have not. When you have to say, "Let us do something," then begins mischief. 172
Rabindranath Tagore
#70. It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
Mel Brooks
#71. Reacher said, So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
Lee Child
#72. The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.
Greg Giraldo
#73. I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands.
George Carlin
#74. Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.
Robert Towne
#75. I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.
Carnie Wilson
#77. When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you
Either you'll find something solid to stand on
Or you'll be taught how to fly!
Richard Bach
#78. Now - either you all give yourselves up now and let us beat you up a bit, though not very much of course because we are firmly opposed to needless violence, or we blow up this entire planet and possibly one or two others we noticed on our way out here!
Douglas Adams
#79. Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.
Nirmala Srivastava
#80. When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.
Helen Fisher
#81. Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.
Gautam Adani
#82. The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
Milan Kundera
#83. Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.
Tim Green
#84. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.
Bruce Lee
#85. My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.
Kevin Hart
#86. Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both ... Not both.
Ayn Rand
#87. Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
Nathaniel Branden
#88. No. I don't
deserve you either. You need someone who will cherish you, protect you and take
care of you. Someone that realizes they'd never be able to find another you in the
world, no matter how hard they looked.
Molly McAdams
#89. There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.
Rocky Marciano
#90. Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Abraham Lincoln
#91. You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.
Lauren Bacall
#92. It's only a question of time before either you die or your motivation dies. Naturally we all hope to go first.
Sophie Schiller
#93. Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.
Anne Dudley
#94. I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
Dambisa Moyo
#95. You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
Saul Bellow
#96. Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me."
"Do you mean you want a secretary or something?"
"No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.
Daphne Du Maurier
#97. I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art ... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
Carine Roitfeld
#98. If you spend time wishing you had other players and scheming to get rid of them or not being loyal, either you end up hating them or they end up hating you, and that cannot be productive.
Sam Smith
#99. [On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish right alongside of him - and have much more fun - and much more expense.
Sylvia Beach
#100. Either you believed in something or you didn't - you couldn't have it both ways and be honest with yourself.
Terry Brooks
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