Top 100 I Do Not Quotes
#1. I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true.
Plato
#3. I don't know whether I love Gina. I doubt it very much. I would not make any sacrifices for her. I do not know whether I can love at all. I can desire and can seek myself in others; I can listen for an echo, demand a mirror, seek pleasure, and all that can look like love.
Hermann Hesse
#4. In November I received a ransom note telling me exactly what to do if ever I wished to see my uncle Theobald alive again. I do not have an Uncle Theobald, but I wore a pink carnation in my buttonhole and ate nothing but salads for the entire month anyway. In
Neil Gaiman
#5. She lifted her chin and glared at him. "If you had but asked, I would've informed you that I do not attend masquerades." "That is precisely why I didn't ask.
Erica Ridley
#6. I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.
Jane Austen
#7. I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy, ...
Kathryn Stockett
#8. People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
Leonard Alfred George Strong
#9. A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.
Simon Greenleaf
#10. Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them.
Thomas E. Kennedy
#11. I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder. From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings.
George Orwell
#12. I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.
Harry Houdini
#13. If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility of such an a priori knowledge.
Immanuel Kant
#15. I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself. 1 CORINTHIANS 4:3
Joyce Meyer
#16. I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him
Leo Tolstoy
#17. I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.
William Shakespeare
#19. I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
Saint Augustine
#20. I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.
Melody Carlson
#21. I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.
Pol Pot
#22. I walk into this room
All eyes on me now
But I do not know the people inside
Look straight through me these eyes
Seeking more wisdom
Than I have to give away
Dave Matthews
#23. I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#24. Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.
Confucius
#25. I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.
Hjalmar Branting
#26. I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?
Saint Augustine
#28. Do you ever stand in here with that garage door open?"
"No I do not."
"Interesting," Clark said.
John Corey Whaley
#29. I confess that I do not believe that one human brain is capable of answering every objection that another human brain could raise against the most obvious truth in the world.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.
C. D. Broad
#32. 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
#33. 21Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" 22Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. [87] 23"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king
Anonymous
#35. I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.
Arthur Ruppin
#36. I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
Raoul Vaneigem
#37. I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#38. I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
William McKinley
#39. This mirror inside me shows. I can't say what, but I can't not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.
Rumi
#40. My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke. Like a volcano. Like a monster. I want to fume. I do not want to be the girl whose job it is to wail in a high-pitched voice at funerals.
Deborah Levy
#41. I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.
Armand Assante
#42. I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
Benjamin Britten
#43. I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there.
Anonymous
#44. I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
Albert Camus
#46. Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Hugo Claus
#47. I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".
A.E. Samaan
#48. I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.
Margaret Thatcher
#49. I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other's error and nobody discerns his own.
Michael Servetus
#50. I'm not a runner. I do not like running. I love to swim. I love to surf. I do not like to run.
Laurie Holden
#51. Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.
Paulo Coelho
#52. I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.
C.S. Lewis
#54. K
: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.
David Foster Wallace
#55. I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
Flannery O'Connor
#56. I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
Elizabeth I
#57. I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.
Ne-Yo
#58. I do not regret anything I have ever done. That is a policy of mine.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#59. If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy Parker
#60. It is up to the school more than anything else to work against barbarism. ... By barbarism, I do not mean the Beatles.
T. W. Adorno
#61. I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.
Chris Hedges
#62. The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough ... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
Michael Baumgartner
#63. I am good enough, attractive enough, important enough just as I am. I do not have to fix, help, or caretake others to earn their love.
Shary Hauer
#64. Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long
Samantha Shannon
#67. Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings ... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition ... I do not believe ... that this belittles my own personality.
Rico Lebrun
#68. I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#69. In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
Lionel Blue
#70. I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.
C.J. Cherryh
#71. I do not run late. Growing up on a farm, you're just not late when it's time to do chores or go to work. I grew up Mennonite, and so that work ethic and timeliness was just ingrained in me from a very young age.
Greg Brenneman
#72. Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.
Nico
#73. Prayer is to me now what the sucking of the milk was to me in my infancy. Although I do not always feel the same relish for it, yet I am sure I cannot live without it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#74. I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
A.J. Ayer
#75. I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.
Charlotte Bronte
#77. If I do not love my fellow man, I can be sure of it that I do not love Jesus Christ. And I would do well if guilty of loving Jesus Christ even more than I love my fellow man, because only by this may I fully come to love my fellow man.
Criss Jami
#78. He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
Martin Luther
#79. I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.
Malcolm X
#80. I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle.
Lewis Thomas
#81. I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
Egon Schiele
#82. I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Aaron Sorkin
#83. I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
Dorothy Fields
#84. I do not approach my life tactfully at all, i'm incredibly impulsive and I am definitely an intense weirdo. I love living and I love people. They trip me out and I want to know more about them all the time. That isn't something I can turn off and on.
Kristen Stewart
#86. I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
Joseph De Maistre
#87. To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
Galileo Galilei
#88. Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.
Miguel Cotto
#89. I do not see how it's possible to have a "friends with benefits" lifestyle, because if the sex is great, it's going to naturally expand into a more meaningful relationship. Otherwise, it's just a booty call.
Jenna Elfman
#90. I do not dare to disturb it with the truth, because I am too busy clinging to it for support.
Veronica Roth
#92. I do not mind if you break my heart into two or a million pieces, I will bring another heart for you to play with! My body will keep on making hearts for you!If it fails to do so, I will kill myself and be born again to do so.
K. Hari Kumar When Strangers Meet
#93. I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.
John Von Neumann
#95. I am not like other women. I do not like the things they like or feel the things they feel. And it is better so. I do not want to be like them. I do not want to turn into one of them.
Sharon Shinn
#96. I do not want anything on this earth except the warmth of your pure love.
Debasish Mridha
#97. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein
#98. I do not know
if I
will ever be
complete,
but I know
whatever I am,
You
will always be
the rest of
me.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#99. Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.
Giuseppe Verdi
#100. I do not remember much of that illness, except that I woke to find my head in Emile's lap. She looked into my eyes.
'You are a fool,' she said. It was the nicest thing she'd said to me in two years.
Christian Cameron
