Top 100 I Am Not Quotes
#2. I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass.
Leo Tolstoy
#3. I am not "cured"
I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.
J. Kenner
#4. Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.
Julia Sawalha
#6. Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#7. I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.
Milan Kundera
#9. I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.
Louise Hay
#10. Can I just say that I don't care if two planes or trains or whatever take off from different locations at different times and travel at different speeds. I am not traffic control, so why the hell would I care what time they'd pass each other?
Devon Ashley
#11. I am not here to make anyone happy. What I am here for is to claim my life, my mama's death, our losses and our triumphs, to name them for myself.
Dorothy Allison
#12. With her head on his shoulder, Jean Louise was content. It might work after all, she thought. But I am not domestic. I don't even know how to run a cook. What do ladies say to each other when they go visiting? I'd have to wear a hat. I'd drop the babies and kill 'em.
Harper Lee
#13. I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
Paul Cezanne
#14. I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.
Frank McCourt
#15. I have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not a word of it. Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not going to do what He did not do.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#16. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
G.K. Chesterton
#17. I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
Philip Green
#18. I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Shakira
#19. I am not an ornithologist - I am a bird.
Saul Bellow
#20. What I am not," he says, most truthfully, "that for me is God
Will Durant
#21. The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.
Ogden Nash
#22. I've been really clear about this. If you want to be president, you should run for president. We should select our nominee from among the people who are running for president. Clear and simple. So no, I am not going to be the president. I am not going to be the nominee.
Paul Ryan
#23. I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.
Alfonso Cuaron
#24. I am not supposed to be here," he said. Drew circled her arm through his. "Oh, please. You're perfect here, sweetie.
Rick Riordan
#25. The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
Donald Miller
#26. If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
Hans Rosling
#30. In my bones, I know that I am not long for this world.
Dean Koontz
#31. I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
Eric Holder
#32. Shall a man have nothing of his own; -- no sorrow in his heart, no care in his family, no thought in his breast so private and special to him, but that, if he happen to be a clergyman, the bishop may touch it with his thumb?'
I am not the bishop's thumb,' said Mr. Thumble
Anthony Trollope
#33. The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.
Jo Brand
#34. You're such a stalker, Seth. How long were you standing there?"
"I am not a stalker, and I was standing there long enough to realize you have no self-control and you're unstable. I kind of like that about you - mainly because I find it entertaining.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#35. I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
Vera Wang
#36. I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the very least, it means that I do not think Christianity began with the Reformation.
Stanley Hauerwas
#37. I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.
William Shakespeare
#39. I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.
Richard P. Feynman
#40. You're staring at me."
"I am not. I'm just ... thinking. Without blinking.
Summer Lane
#43. I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
Tony Benn
#44. Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.
Art Buchwald
#45. I am not a lucky person, but I am a person blessed by God for what I have and I got.
Helene Koloway
#46. Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward ...
Thomas A. Edison
#47. I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
#48. I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.
Walt Whitman
#49. I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon, so I decided to change my career. But I still feel that I am a doctor. So my goal, all my life, is to bring this stem-cell technology to the bedside.
Shinya Yamanaka
#50. I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.
Kurt Cobain
#51. I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
Ruth Rendell
#52. I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.
Bobby Seale
#53. Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#54. Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#55. It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.
Enrico Caruso
#56. I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
Jane Fonda
#57. I am not looking for a thing; I am searching for a spiritual experience.
Daniel Klein
#58. I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.
David Coulthard
#59. I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
Uday Kiran
#60. You are afraid to write your first novel because you say " I am not a talented great writer " But you forget that nobody was born a talented great writer.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#61. to put forth my final words on this subject...there is no dilemma, there is no problem...unless you, the believer...create the problem yourself by adopting a set of beliefs that puts you at odds with the ongoing labor of science and discovery. I am not telling you here that god does
Robert Butler
#62. I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
Charlotte Bronte
#63. I am not so fearful of my own status that I must see it slavishly worshiped at every possible moment, Kovakar," the kinlord responded. "It bores me" - Isladar
Michelle West
#64. I bare my nakedness to the world that the world may see who I am; not the mask that hides my flaws, not the mask that hides my beauty. I bask in the light and I take off the mask!
Jocelyn Soriano
#65. You said I am a good man, but I am not that good a man. And I am - I am catastrophically in love with you.
~William Herondale, Page 413
Cassandra Clare
#66. I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
Jamaica Kincaid
#67. I am not, nor will I ever be, that irritating creature called a morning person.
Lee Roland
#68. She laughed, I love it when she laughs, although the truth is I am not in love with her.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#69. I have learned two things in my life: there is a God, and I am not him.
Rudy Ruettiger
#70. She lifted one shoulder and lowered it. 'Because love is for 'lucky among us.
'What does that mean?' he said, her words rioting through him, unwelcome in their eerie truth.
'Only that I am not counted among the lucky. Everyone I have ever loved has left.
Sarah MacLean
#71. I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.
Judith Plaskow
#72. Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.
Suzy Favor Hamilton
#73. A friend has to be outside my reach, beyond my grasp. And there can be no friendship with someone whom I am not ready to betray: a friend is someone I can betray with love.
Slavoj Zizek
#74. I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
Harold Ford Jr.
#75. When I talk about "creative living" here, please understand that I am not necessarily talking about pursuing a life that is professionally or exclusively devoted to the arts.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#77. If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.
Carolyn Custis James
#79. I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.
Dominic Savio
#80. People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
Kapil Sharma
#81. I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work, I'd say. And being in a career that is predicated on a degree of self-absorption, that is a tricky thing to negotiate sometimes.
Patrick Fabian
#82. I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world.
Jane Austen
#83. I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.
Jane Austen
#84. I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.
Ellen Barkin
#85. I did not dive and I am not a cheat. That is not the way I play.
Robert Pires
#86. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
Siegfried Sassoon
#87. I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.
Well, let's talk Algeria then. Let's talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.
Rawi Hage
#88. I am not an economist. I am an honest man!
Mark Twain
#89. I should take his kisses with me and go. But with a seeping, resolute calm, I decide to keep him. I am not losing these Wednesdays, even if I can't have anything else.
Mary Ann Rivers
#90. I am not a Bible-believing Christian in the fullest sense simply by believing the right doctrines, but as I live in practice in this supernatural world.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#91. I have a voluptuous body. I am not one of those skinny girls. I like to enjoy life.
Doutzen Kroes
#92. How about now," he said, gesturing over his shoulder. "In my bed." I put my hands on my hips, staring at him. "I am not this hot. What's up with you?
Mary Calmes
#93. I don't know what this is you're trying to do, but you and I are not the same." He took another step back from me. "And I am not for you. I'm not your white knight. I'm just the guy who wanted to fuck you.
Samantha Young
#94. I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.
Edward Snowden
#95. Fashion, ah yes. A fool's game, if I am not mistaken.
K.F. Breene
#96. I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.
Donatella Versace
#97. I, of course, took the opportunity to interpose with pigheaded Wallace pride, 'I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT.
Elizabeth Wein
#98. I am a nurse," she retorted. "I am not a gopher." "You are a nurse," the supervisor yelled, "and you are whatever you have to be to try to save lives!
Kerry Hamm
#99. In every moment of the day, in the middle of any day, I can become newly engaged with the world. Newly competent. There's so much to discover! I can still become something I am not.
Sharman Apt Russell
#100. I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.
Cherie Blair
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