If It's Not Okay Quotes

#1. My philosophy now is this: Everything will be all right in the end. If it's not okay, the end is nowhere in sights

Victoria Haugnes

#2. Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Julie Johnson

#3. Everything will be okay in the end. And if it's not okay,, It's not the end.

Orizuka

#4. In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese

Fernando Sabino

#5. While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

Chetan Bhagat

#6. Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just ... I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?

Markus Zusak

#7. it's okay if college isn't your thing. I'm sure there's a pole somewhere with your name on it, but next time you might not want to buy your tits off Craig's List. Just sayin'.

Candace Vianna

#8. As for wondering if it's okay to be who you are--that's not a symptom of mental illness. That's a symptom of being a person.

Jeff Garvin

#9. I'm not perfect. And I don't have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it's okay if I still screw up.

Melissa Darnell

#10. If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.

Derrek Lee

#11. Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring.

Pat Benatar

#12. There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

Calvin Trillin

#13. It's fine to be able to stand on your own, admirable, but I think you also need to prove to yourself that it's okay if you don't have to. That it's okay to choose to not be alone. To choose to let someone support you, emotionally and otherwise.

T.L. Haddix

#14. We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we're happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist. But ours does. And it's okay here, if we open our eyes up and let it be.

Heidi Priebe

#15. I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

Katy Perry

#16. I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

Cate Blanchett

#17. Yes," I said "You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it?"
He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. "Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?

Kelley Armstrong

#18. Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Bruce Sterling

#19. It's okay as long as you don't get caught." If there is no dishonor, it is not wrong.

Nabeel Qureshi

#20. My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.

Suzanne Collins

#21. The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

Mick Jagger

#22. Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

Charlie Sheen

#23. It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?

Bill Hicks

#24. The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

Rush Limbaugh

#25. Saying good-bye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It's making it okay for that to be the last conversation you have. So if you don't say it--if you leave the conversation open--it means you'll have to see them again." ~Roger Sullivan

Morgan Matson

#26. If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

Tanya Davis

#27. You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.

Biz Stone

#28. I'm not lookin' to be anybody's keeper. What I say and do is meant to protect me. If it works for somebody else, that's okay, but I don't want people depending on me to save them.

Dan Groat

#29. If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for.

Jesse Ventura

#30. The most immediate is that if you tell your partner "It's okay to ask for anything you want," it better be true. If you're not prepared to make it safe for your partner to open up to you, he won't. Because he'll feel he can't.

Franklin Veaux

#31. Sometimes we like more than one and that's okay too. It's not like you have a finite source of love and if you share it too much it will drain twice as fast. You love them for different reasons, because they speak to different parts of your soul.

Kayti Nika Raet

#32. Learn from your failures & go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

H. Stanley Judd

#33. And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#34. Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself [with more advanced games].

Shigeru Miyamoto

#35. You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it's okay to steal a loaf to feed them?

A.J. Darkholme

#36. Faint and not so pleasant. "Okay," I said. "It's the pantry. Neat and fully stocked. You get an A in supply management, if there is such a thing." "What do you smell?" "Spices, mostly. Coffee. Maybe air freshener, too, I'm not sure.

Stephen King

#37. It's not okay, it's not all right. But if you just hold on, One more day, one more hour. It will be. It will be.

Jasinda Wilder

#38. For the record," I interject, "I don't agree with Lo. I'm not a comic book elitist." Anyone can read comics, and if you don't it's perfectly okay to enjoy the characters in other mediums.

Krista Ritchie

#39. Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said that means girls like it, not that there are small birds in it.

Anne Bishop

#40. It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay?

Kevin Hearne

#41. But at least try to look a little more raider-ish, okay? We don't want to attract attention."
Zeke's snort sounded suspiciously like laughter. "Allie, you're a beautiful, exotic-looking vampire girl with a katana. Trust me, if anyone is going to attract attention, it's not going to be me.

Julie Kagawa

#42. In the old days, people thought that wouldn't be amenable to life. Modern studies with computers have shown that it's okay to be tidally locked. If a planet heats up on one side and not the other, the atmosphere can still circulate, because heat wants to move around.

Sara Seager

#43. Okay, Frey, actually, I am hiding something and it's my something to hide and you can be a big, strong guy but if I have something on my mind I won't wish to share, I don't have to share it. So suck it up because I'm not going to share it. All right?

Kristen Ashley

#44. If young kids choose to have me as a role model ... what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.

Anne Hathaway

#45. It's all about money, not freedom, y'all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?

Bill Hicks

#46. Whenever y'all are in the store from and y'all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it's okay.

Kanye West

#47. If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.

Lea Thompson

#48. It's all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.

Anne Ursu

#49. Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

AnnaSophia Robb

#50. You always ask if I'm okay
But it's not the same as being happy

Frank Turner

#51. Okay, rule number one: if you do not understand something, you need to stop me and tell me you don't understand. If I ask if you've got it and you say you've got it but you don't really have it, then it's not my fault that you haven't got it. Got it?

Jeff Erno

#52. I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

Quentin Tarantino

#53. I won't say it's okay, because it's not. If you want to break up with me, Elle, then do it. But I'm not going to make it easy for you.

Megan Hart

#54. Oh, Gillian..." Her voice was soft. "You are a disappointment. But that's okay. Everyone can't be great and I love you all the same. It's not the end of the world if - " I

Whitney G.

#55. If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall.

Irene Cara

#56. Okay, Barrons, it's time."
"I am not helping you shave your legs." he said instantly.
"Oh please. As if I'd let you.

Karen Marie Moning

#57. I'm not the greatest husband - I've got a girlfriend. It doesn't really please my wife, but then if I was looking to please her I wouldn't have a girlfriend. I mean she knows about it, and I guess she's okay with it. Plus my kids like both of them.

Andrew Dice Clay

#58. I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.

Stephanie Seymour

#59. If you look at the actual movies that I've done, the whole struggle is to get to that point, so it's not something that you just have so easy ... But it's okay. It doesn't bother me. I've done okay so far.

Kristen Stewart

#60. If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

Dalai Lama

#61. I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one - at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

D.J. MacHale

#62. Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.

Imelda Staunton

#63. Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#64. If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a lot of taste," and continuing to chew it.

Jaco Van Dormael

#65. Okay, let me state right now that I am not a coward. I'm really not. But I'm not a fool, either. I think if you recognize that you are up against a force greater than your own, it is perfectly okay to run.
It's not okay to leave others behind, though.

Meg Cabot

#66. Every time people ask me if I'm okay, it's just a reminder that I'm not OK at all.

Unknown

#67. Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that. Just say 'Yes sir', Alright', 'Okay' - but they're not seeing the movie because if they can, they should be directing the movie.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#68. Are you okay?" Kelly cried.
"I shot dinner," Nick said.
Kelly snorted. "Look, Hannibal, you can shoot back if they 're shooting at you, but it's still not okay to eat them afterward.

Abigail Roux

#69. What if I decide my destiny is someone else?'
'Then that's your decision and I would respect that. Also I know a whole lot of gods to smite whoever it is you choose instead of me.'
'You-'
'Kidding! Totally kidding. Mostly kidding. Okay, not really kidding

Kiersten White

#70. Okay, so let's say we're all in the bubble. What's tonight then? Part of the bubble too? Because, it can't be all bad if there's Nutter Butter pancakes, right?"
He flashed a crooked smile. "This? This is a blip in the bubble. A glitch in the matrix. This is the ultimate not-supposed to.

Margaux Froley

#71. It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

Tori Amos

#72. I want to be still and small, and not have to man up or act like everything's okay, but the thing about living in a house where someone is sick is, it's like they have a monopoly on it. If one person is always needing things , then no one else is really allowed to.

Brenna Yovanoff

#73. What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.

Maya Angelou

#74. We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay.

Jessie J.

#75. In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

Antonin Scalia

#76. If you do something bad to me, and I say "okay, let's move on," it does not mean I forgive you.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#77. You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

Sam Altman

#78. I've prowled the dirtiest back alleys of sadness, okay? And I know what it's like to fight for your life on those mean streets. So if you need someone to vent to or someone to be quiet with or someone to talk your ear off, I can be that person. I'm not scared of the dark places.

Emery Lord

#79. It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would not have discovered my enormous capacity to endure. I would have not have embraced this deeply contemplative place within my own being.

Katina Makris

#80. If you enjoyed making a thing, and you're proud of the thing you made, that's enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that's okay.

Wil Wheaton

#81. Saying you just want your kid to be happy puts enormous pressure on the child. They feel if they're not happy, they're failing. Periods of unhappiness are okay and our kids need to know that; it's the struggle that makes you who you are.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#82. It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.

Malachy McCourt

#83. Sloane," he said pulling away when I started to fall out of his arms. "It's killing me to fight this. I can't. I don't want to. Not anymore."
I swayed and his arms steadied me.
"Are you okay?" he asked. His lips quirked. "I might have to refrain from kissing you if you're going to faint.

Micalea Smeltzer

#84. When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.

Glenn Close

#85. I don't feel good anymore with this skin... probably a new title... a new chapter.. something new will be more okay than that... to much honesty... I am not on this... After all if you don't know this fact, I am going to point it to you...
Marriage is successful if it's build on a lie...

Deyth Banger

#86. It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be the one who stays behind.

Audrey Niffenegger

#87. I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

Aidan Gillen

#88. 'It's okay. I understand that you're tempted and know you shouldn't grab the apple, and when you did you wanted to drop it. But I'm not good at resisting temptation. I'd rather eat the fucking thing, and enjoy it, even if I end up in hell.'

Barbara Elsborg

#89. I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#90. Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today, there's not a thing I would change? I've lived well. Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain but all in all, it's been okay. I've lived well.

Jhene Aiko

#91. It's okay to fall. Everyone falls. It's not okay to stay there. Grieve. Cry. Get mad if you need to. The important thing is in the end, you're standing.

Me

#92. Don't defend them like it's okay. Because it's not. I won't let them do that to you again. I'm just warning you, I'll make you leave with me if I think that -

Rebecca Donovan

#93. If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

Asne Seierstad

#94. As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

Angelique Kidjo

#95. Cats do not hunt seals. They would hunt them if they knew what seals and where to find them. But they do not know, so it's okay.

Terry Pratchett

#96. It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check you in.

Jennifer Niven

#97. Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.

Karina Longworth

#98. Mal!"
"What?"
"Close the door down there and lock it," David yelled. "Don't you come up here under any circumstances. Not till I tell you it's okay. Understood?"
There was a pause then Mal yelled back. "What if there's a fire?"
"Burn.

Kylie Scott

#99. People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

Michael Patrick King

#100. Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

Julie Gregory