Top 100 If You Don't Want Quotes
#1. If you don't want me to come then I'll come she said. This sort of thing passes for logic among siblings.
Terry Pratchett
#2. Don't let your schedule rule you - just do what you gotta do - or don't do it if you don't want to do it. The paradoz about schedules is that they can either help keep you sane, or drive you insane. It's your choice.
Art Hochberg
#3. My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.
Fay Weldon
#4. If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?
Stephen King
#5. Heaven is His choice for you. But He won't force you to go there if you don't want to.
Bo Sanchez
#6. The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.
Sara Pennypacker
#7. If you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don't want to publish it, I'd love to read it. Frankly, I'd read your grocery lists.
John Green
#8. Don't ask why if you don't want to die. Do as you're told if you want to get old.
David Foster Wallace
#9. If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.
Daley Thompson
#10. The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.
Steve Rider
#11. You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course ... but you don't have to.
Stephen King
#12. I'm putting this topic right here. If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine. I'll simply take it away and talk about something else you may be more interested in.
Roosh V
#13. Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
Annette Bening
#14. If you want something then you lose everything. If you don't want anything then you already have everything.
Seungsahn
#15. I feel like I've influenced in the sense that if you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. But don't rely on what people are saying you can do or saying what you can't do.
Lance Mountain
#16. Say there's this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you've been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it's almost as if you don't want to change. Because you'll miss the person you were before.
Bennett Madison
#17. If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.
Arno Allan Penzias
#18. You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.
Will Smith
#19. I guess, really, in summary, everything I've been trying to say is that your life should be full of stories you want to tell. If you don't want to tell it, ever, why are you doing it? Likewise, if no one else cares to hear your story, with limited exceptions, why are you doing it?
Nick Manning
#20. If your eyeballs move, this means that you're thinking, or about to start thinking.
If you don't want to be thinking at this particular moment, try to keep your eyeballs still.
Lydia Davis
#21. I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
Oscar Robertson
#22. You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
Ray Bradbury
#23. DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.
Mark Ronson
#24. If you want to be the best,
Work hardier than the rest.
If you don't want to be the best,
Just work like the rest.
Bob Stinson
#25. There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.
Bernhard Schlink
#26. If you don't want to lose your job, you become conservative, you keep your head down," he told me. "And it's pretty unfortunate, because without the willingness to fail, the possibility for great success is eliminated. [quoted from Mark Roth]
Sanjay Gupta
#27. If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#28. Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.
Meera Lester
#29. I know there's something troubling you. I'm not going to ask what it is, if you don't want to tell me. But remember that I'm your mother. Nothing you say could ever shock me or make me love you less.
Erin Hunter
#30. Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#31. Don't trouble the trouble if you don't want the trouble to trouble you.
Hlovate
#32. If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.
Richard Bach
#33. If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.
E. Lockhart
#34. In fact, I was hoping that if I came to see you off, I would be asked to do manual labor." Iko shrugged. "If you don't want to do any heavy lifting, then stop having such impressive muscles." Cinder
Marissa Meyer
#35. If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.
Romano Prodi
#36. If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Bruce Lee
#37. In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.
Andy Rooney
#38. Joey, it's high time, dear child. What will people say? If you don't want to be a doctor, at least be a womanizer, or a fancier of horses, be something ... be something definite ...
Witold Gombrowicz
#39. Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.
Muhammad Ali
#40. Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.
Mac DeMarco
#41. Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.
Demetri Martin
#42. With pleasure," Kinney deadpanned. "In fact, I was hoping that if I came to see you off, I would be asked to do manual labor." Iko shrugged. "If you don't want to do any heavy lifting, then stop having such impressive muscles.
Marissa Meyer
#43. You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.
Sunil Mittal
#44. Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.
Mark Twain
#45. If you don't want my answer, don't ask me the question.
Abby
#46. I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.
Julia Voth
#47. If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.
Ally Carter
#48. I'm coming inside you in three seconds. Pull off if you don't want a bunch of my swimmers attacking your eggs.
Jessica Clare
#49. Hey, if you don't want to tell me, don't. But I can tell when you lie."
Ok, that was super creepy. "You can?"
He smiled grimly down at the dirty dishwater. "Nope. But see? You fell for it anyway. Careful, or I'll read your mind with my incredible vampire superpowers.
Rachel Caine
#51. If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.
Pete Townshend
#52. If you don't want to take risk, life would be cruel to you.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live underneath them.
Janet Fitch
#54. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.
Tyler Perry
#55. If you don't want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what's happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.
Diane Coyle
#56. Sometimes you have to sacrifice something you love, if you don't want to lose everything you have.
Madeleine George
#57. It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions ... it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.
Alex Flinn
#58. I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to be a feminist and don't want to claim feminism, that's entirely your right.
Roxane Gay
#59. My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
Abraham Lincoln
#60. I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.
Mark Gatiss
#61. Men are very visual, so if you don't want them to notice your stomach, just put fake mustaches on your breasts to distract them.
Amy Poehler
#62. In the end, the truth finds a way to surface, even if you don't want it to.
Jennifer Lopez
#63. Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
Lance Bass
#64. If you don't want to fail, find your will to stay alive, everything else will follow.
Anonymous
#65. Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.
Julian Bond
#66. Wherever you it is that you want to see the face of God, there you will see it. And if you don't want to see it, it doesn't matter, so long as you are performing good works.
Paulo Coelho
#67. It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.
Jean Rhys
#69. If you don't want the fish, why do you catch them?" A few seconds pass. "For the quality of the conversation.
David Mitchell
#70. The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
Buzz Aldrin
#71. If you don't want to deceive yourself in this new year, don't be a miracle chaser
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!
Jerry Lewis
#73. If you don't want vows to materialize in your next life; don't take them!
Lizelle DuPlessis
#74. If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.
Anthony Mackie
#75. People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don't want to have children.
Janeane Garofalo
#76. If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
Tony Abbott
#77. It's your secret. A piece of your life that's yours to share or not to share, as you see fit. You never have to tell a soul if you don't want to.
Lilah Pace
#78. It ends up with everybody at this long dinner table laughing their asses off because the great Dane comes in with a bunch of puppies. Everybody thought it was a male , I suppose, or some goddam thing. All I can say is, don't see it if you don't want to puke all over yourself.
J.D. Salinger
#79. Every tattoo should tell a story of the person inside. Each is open to interpretation to the viewer. No one has to know the real meaning if you don't want them to.
Charisse Spiers
#80. Don't
tempt the scorpion if you don't want to
get stung.
Colleen Hoover
#81. If you don't want me to see, I guess, don't sleep in the same room as me."
He looks at her with a sly smile. "But I'm known for sleeping in school. It's my shtick.
Lisa McMann
#82. If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.
Mary Garden
#83. Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" I asked him that evening.
"Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common."
"'s what everybody at school says."
"From now on it'll be everybody less one
"
"Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, why do you send me to school?
Harper Lee
#85. Mather lifts a white eyebrow. "You don't have to actually yell, if you don't want to. Slightly elevated whispering would be fine.
Sara Raasch
#86. I'm totally twisted. Instead of, "Oh god, I don't have platforms - they won't like me," I was much more, "I'm doing what I'm doing, and if you don't want to buy it, then don't buy, but that's just what I'm gonna do." It gave me strength. It worked for me.
Manolo Blahnik
#87. If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.
Jay Leno
#88. The Fire Brigade recognise only two kinds of people at a fire, victims and obstacles, and if you don't want to be either it's best to stay back.
Ben Aaronovitch
#89. A friend is like a flower of life, it continue to make your life beautiful and happy even if you don't want it to.
Debasish Mridha
#90. If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
Ethan Mordden
#91. If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
Stefan Molyneux
#92. Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.
Bernie Sanders
#93. New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.
Susan Sarandon
#94. Fool your heart and take over control if you don't want to be hurt.
Aashi Uppal
#95. I just want an opportunity. If you don't like the audition, don't hire me! But if you don't want to even see me
that's hurtful. And why? You know nothing about me!
Jessica Biel
#96. If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.
Naomi Novik
#97. If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.
Graham Nash
#98. If you don't want to keep him, then pretend he's a book. Enjoy him for two weeks, then return him
Shannon Stacey
#99. It's just,' he said. 'If you don't want to be with him, you shouldn't be.
Andrea Cremer
#100. If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don't want to dance, then you're going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.
Sherman Alexie
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