Top 100 Else But Quotes
#1. I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.
Steve McNair
#2. My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.
Wayne W. Dyer
#3. I idly wished for something else, for any situation that was neither this forsaken chamber nor the tenseness of Burrich's room. For a restfulness that perhaps I had once known somewhere else but could no longer recall. And so I drowsed into oblivion.
Robin Hobb
#4. I don't know about anyone else, but if I had problems or issues, maybe I wouldn't feel as comfortable talking about them in a group.
Jermain Defoe
#5. She loved Manhattan and could not imagine living anywhere else, but her world was upside down now, and, well, there was nothing certain in her future.
John Grisham
#6. Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.
Lord Hailsham
#7. I have my brain switched on and I might be thinking something else but we've come to an arrangement. That sort of play is maybe easier with someone who also thinks that way. But that is not necessarily a national thing, but maybe a little bit of a cultural thing.
Christoph Waltz
#8. I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.
Dawn Olivieri
#9. Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes me sexy. I like skirts and dresses just like everyone else, but I had a message I needed to put out there. It was up to me to show people and young girls there was another way.
Janelle Monae
#10. Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.
Terry Pratchett
#11. Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.
John Dryden
#12. Asking for help isn't a weakness."
"It's more a matter of trust. Not just trust in someone else, but in myself.
Jenn Bennett
#13. First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
Harold Ramis
#14. I don't want to spend another day without you. I want to go to sleep every night with you by my side and wake up next to you every morning. I want nothing else but you, for the rest of my life.
Kass Morgan
#15. You want him like you have never wanted anything else. But does he feel the same?
Cassandra Clare
#16. You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.
Aaron Tippin
#17. I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club.
Bob Hope
#18. What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
James T. Walsh
#19. Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it ... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The Weeknd
#20. I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.
Amy Hempel
#21. Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.
Jane Jacobs
#22. I am smaller in size compared to everyone else. But my dreams are bigger than everyone else.
Yoseob
#23. After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
Joe Torre
#24. Every woman should know how to make one signature dessert. Not for anyone else but herself.
Jennifer Probst
#25. When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
Naomi Judd
#26. When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
Colin Greenwood
#27. I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.
Sarah Hall
#28. If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.
Malcolm X
#29. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.
Peter Pook
#30. There is always a choice, Mister Walker. Even if it is not necessarily the one we wish to have. You can choose to forget all you have seen or you can act to protect your home and all you hold dear. Both choices are open to you. The decision belongs to no one else but you.
F.A.R.
#31. I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#32. Obviously I have a bit of an awareness because I go to the internet like everybody else but I don't get too involved in the details of those conversations just because it can hurt you if you stumble on something that's not nice.
Alice Eve
#33. I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.
Karen Carpenter
#34. We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future.
David Leslie
#35. I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore White
#36. Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#37. Sometimes I wish I could act like everyone else, but I can't change who I am. I've tried. But I never wear the right clothes or say the right thing, and something always goes wrong.
Kami Garcia
#38. Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#39. To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca The Younger
#40. Sweetheart, this is my first time, too. I waited a long time for you, for this. I couldn't imagine being with anyone else but you. This is the beginning for us, baby. This is my forever,
Aria Cole
#41. I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.
Graham Moore
#42. Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
Jane Goldman
#43. For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#44. Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is Thou shalt not question.
Sigmund Freud
#45. You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
David Allen
#46. When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason - God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.
Oswald Chambers
#47. How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde
#48. I'm already someone else, but the person I turn into at these low points is someone I never imagined I could be a few years ago: someone with a hot knot of fury where her heart used to be.
Harriet Lane
#49. Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.
Alice McDermott
#50. I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be.
Julian Barnes
#51. Who else but utopians could make utopia?
Dave Eggers
#52. Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
Samantha Morton
#53. Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.
George Berkeley
#54. I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.
Colson Whitehead
#55. When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.
John Sulston
#56. Love is an action that does not depend on anyone else but the person expressing it.
Amy Bayliss
#57. Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.
Phoebe Snow
#58. Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life's path to the bitter end?
Glennon Doyle Melton
#59. Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
William Penn
#60. I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.
Mason Cooley
#61. Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'
Paul Coffey
#62. We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#63. Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil
#65. A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Green is made of yellow and blue, nothing else, but when you look at green, where've the yellow and the blue gone? Somehow this is to do with Moran's dad. Somehow this is to do with everyone and everything.
David Mitchell
#67. What we are is God's gift to us. What we do with our lives is our gift to Him. He accepts us as we are. He's not going to judge us on the basis of what He has given someone else, but on the basis of what we have done with what He has given us. Never be discouraged by what you don't have. Having
Warren W. Wiersbe
#68. The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient of hearing anything about eternity.
Soren Kierkegaard
#69. He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.
James R. Silvestri
#70. I think we need to have sex now.'
His brows drew together. 'Why?'
'To remind us of what we're doing here,' I replied, my tone meaningful.
Braden's eyes narrowed. 'No,' he told me gruffly, squeezing my nape. 'I'd have sex with you for anything else but that.
Samantha Young
#71. I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.
Marquis De Lafayette
#72. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
Neil Gaiman
#73. The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#74. The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing ...
Martin Luther
#75. I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.
Anne-Marie Duff
#76. Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.
Rip Torn
#77. Sometimes things happen in your life, even tiny things that would seem insignificant to anyone else, but they make you feel like it's worth the fight. They give you strength to carry on,
Lauren Britton
#78. The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, that's guaranteed.
And I can't begin to explain that- or the craziness inside myself and everybdy else,but guess what? Sunday is my fav day again
Matthew Quick
#79. Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
James Bay
#80. I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.
Viggo Mortensen
#81. Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.
Jane Horrocks
#82. Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!
James Rollins
#83. The ground of hope is an assured testimony of the conscience, by the gift of the holy Ghost, that we are beloved of God, and this is nothing else but that which we call faith: whereof it followeth, that through faith our consciences are quieted.
Anonymous
#84. She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.
Francesca Lia Block
#85. I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Bill Veeck
#86. Morally, no one has the right to judge anyone else. But legally, it's not a right - it's a responsibility.
Jodi Picoult
#87. I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
Beverly Sills
#88. Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time. I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them. That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.
B.B. King
#89. I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
Jeanette Winterson
#90. You and I shouldn't claim we love Oregon more than anyone else, but that we love Oregon as much as anyone. Our thoughts today, and our deliberations to come, must spring from our determination to keep Oregon lovable and to make it even more livable.
Tom McCall
#91. You might belong to someone else, but you kind of belong to me, too.
Nicole Williams
#92. Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. X
Epictetus
#93. The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker
#94. Compare yourself to no one else but yourself. It's not about anybody else's anything. It's about YOU. Are you the best you? That's all you need to worry about. Imagine how awesome it would be if everyone just worried about making themselves the best they could be!
Beth Ramsay
#95. All I have are the memories The laughter The awkward moments When I should of went home The time you told me I kept you sane The time you pushed me away When you had time for everyone else, but me
Lissa Rice
#96. She had seeped into his consciousness so thoroughly, absorbing all lucid thought, that not only could he think of nothing else but no longer cared to.
Jojo Moyes
#97. I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
Madonna Ciccone
#98. What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Henry Van Dyke
#99. Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.
Chris Hedges
#100. One's first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.
Thomm Quackenbush
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