Top 100 Like It Or Not Quotes
#1. So like it or not, the question for us, as it has always been for working women, is how will we navigate the emotional mine field of love and power, career and family?
Lia Macko
#2. By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not,
Kurt Cobain
#3. Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. - Jon Kabat
Howard Zinn
#4. Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.
Susan Cheever
#5. When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
Kathleen Quinlan
#6. Not everybody reads poetry or listens to music, but every single person in the world gets up in the morning and puts on something, and whether you like it or not, that's a statement about who you are.
Dana Thomas
#7. ......like it or not, there'll be some bad apples out there, and sometimes you might find yourself mixed up with one of them. That's not your fault.
Nico Jaye
#8. When despair brings home the bacon and self-esteem with it, it's hard to let it go. 'When you are suffering enough,' I suggested, 'I mean so much that it's simply impossible to go on, then something will give and the stories will change, like it or not.
Tim Parks
#9. But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.
Alan Arkin
#10. Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.
Kevin Kwan
#11. Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
Eddie Vedder
#12. The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
Emanuel Lasker
#13. A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.
Max Kellerman
#14. We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.
James Warburg
#15. Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.
Ashton Kutcher
#16. The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.
Hamid Drake
#17. Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.
Ara Parseghian
#18. Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.
Gerard Houllier
#19. With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.
Sarah Baker
#20. Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.
Kola Boof
#21. I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it or not. It comes out in the writing.
Simon Beaufoy
#22. Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love
genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that,
few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.
Toba Beta
#23. ...despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.
Ian Rankin
#24. I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.
Zoe Bell
#25. That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
Alan Arkin
#26. Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.
Michael Robotham
#27. Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
Alan Hirsch
#28. Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.
Kevin Drum
#29. Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.
Charlie Munger
#30. Every Fey warrior and shei'dalin born in the Fading Lands learns very early in life that, like it or not - fair or not - there will be many days when they must decide between a bad choice and a worse one. Today is such a day.
C.L. Wilson
#31. Because falling in love, even when it's unrequited, is not something that happens to only one person. The other person can't help getting involved, whether they like it or not.
Kate Le Vann
#32. The great spectacle of human crookedness. It keeps coming at you from all sides, and whether you like it or not, it's the most interesting show in town.
Paul Auster
#33. With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.
Edward Norton
#34. what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He
Mercedes Lackey
#35. Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.
Alex Haley
#36. You can hope all you want for a happy ending, but sometimes, like it or not, the guy writing your story is working on a tragedy; you may not even be the main character.
Shalom Auslander
#37. We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.
Chang-rae Lee
#38. The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
Manolo Blahnik
#39. Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#40. Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.
Harvey MacKay
#41. Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).
Richard L. Evans
#42. Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
Maisie Williams
#43. The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?
Matt Cutts
#44. When we find a painting or a novel or a musical we love, we are briefly connected to the best that human beings are capable of, in ourselves and others, and we are reminded that our path through the world must intersect with others. Whether we like it or not, we are not alone.
Andy Miller
#45. I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly complete, the puzzle. And when they're finished they can look at the picture that they've managed to piece together and decide whether they like it or not. On their own time. Let them discover you.
Carrie Fisher
#46. Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living of our days, and whether we like it or not, whether we choose to participate or not, we will, in time, every one of us, wear the deeper part of who we are as a new skin.
Mark Nepo
#47. Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?
Beth Moore
#48. You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
Rahul Dravid
#49. The village is coming back, like it or not.
David Brin
#50. Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not.
Marisha Pessl
#51. Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Bob Greene
#52. You as a soul you are alive, you as an actor - dead, as a character - dead... That's life, like it or not, it's not my problem!
Deyth Banger
#53. Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.
Shah Rukh Khan
#54. If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
Henry W. Kendall
#55. I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.
Maya Angelou
#56. As Daniel Pink notes in To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now."4
Carmine Gallo
#57. Wether you like it or not, life drags you forward.
Dee White
#58. The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.
Seth Godin
#59. A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.
Leonora Carrington
#60. Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.
Ben Brantley
#61. Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.
Philip Roth
#62. No, I don't live in heartache. I don't cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And - like it or not - I still think about her every single day.
Harlan Coben
#63. Charity," Davidson continues, "is forced on us, whether we like it or not; if we want to understand others, we must count them right in most matters."13
Karen Armstrong
#64. Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.
Bill Maher
#65. Put plainly, there is a natural moral law, existing in reality, i.e., not invented by man, which transcends and trumps our desires. Something is right or wrong, whether we like it or not.
William Shakespeare
#66. The best literary device I got from my people was their talk, rough, earthy, salty speech that starts dancing on me sometimes, crying on me other times whether I like it or not.
Mairtin O Cadhain
#67. When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not.
Mark Cuban
#68. Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
Werner Heisenberg
#69. Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
Dan Millman
#70. Whether you like it or not, when you claim to be a Christian, the world takes note.
Monica Johnson
#71. Like it or not, I'm the new f***ing Aquaman buddy.
Jason Momoa
#72. The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have ... whether you like it or not.
Josh McDowell
#73. I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.
Joschka Fischer
#74. Like it or not, I'm here now, in the year 1Q84. The 1984 that I knew no longer exists. It's 1Q84 now. The air has changed, the scene has changed.
Haruki Murakami
#75. The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits - not animals ... . There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
Ronald Reagan
#76. Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
William S. Burroughs
#77. But then again, chance has nothing to do with it. Your two fates did not cross through mere happenstance. The two of you set foot in this world because you were meant to enter it. And now that you have entered it, like it or not, each of you will be assigned your proper role here.
Haruki Murakami
#78. Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.
Ana Ortiz
#79. He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view
Marcus Sakey
#80. Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.
Walter Smith
#81. If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
James D. Watson
#82. The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.
John Key
#83. The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. We are as strictly and solemnly commanded to pray as in the others . . . not to kill, not to steal, etc."165 We must pray whether we feel like it or not.
Timothy J. Keller
#85. You know as well as I do, damn you. Like it or not I seem to have grown a heart. I have absolutely no use for the damned thing, but there it sits, demanding Elinor. I can't live without her.
Anne Stuart
#86. I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.
Susan Glaspell
#87. Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#88. I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
Tawni O'Dell
#89. Like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning.
Barack Obama
#90. Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.
Peter V. Brett
#91. THERE ARE MEMORIES we cannot escape. We take them with us wherever we go, however far, like it or not. They pursue us or accompany us in good times and in bad. We smell their scents. We hear their sounds. We delight in them or dread them. By day and by night. My
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#92. We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon
#93. In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.
Eli Broad
#94. Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we're seeing this resurgence, and it's happening, whether you like it or not!
Carson Daly
#95. Like it or not, she was going to belong to him.
Julie Garwood
#96. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
Meister Eckhart
#97. You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.
Annalee Newitz
#98. We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#99. Strong and independent? I'm neither. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
Haruki Murakami
#100. Now that I've come to terms with the fact that the bastard is going to affect me whether I like it or not, he's even hotter than before.
K.A. Tucker
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