Never Volunteer Quotes

#1. I'm not like that fellow who thought it a far, far better thing to trade his life for that of another. I'm nothing like him: I'd never volunteer to lay my head in the lap of Madame la Guillotine. No, that fellow was a hero and I'm not a hero at all.

Franny Billingsley

#2. I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

Kieran Culkin

#4. Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

John F. Kennedy

#5. No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Ronald Reagan

#6. Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

Greg Louganis

#7. When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.

Bel Kaufman

#8. You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

Anne Lamott

#9. Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.

Lamar Odom

#10. When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

Michael Arad

#11. [On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.

Margaret Case Harriman

#12. Whenever we are struggling, we must fall on the promises of God that are founded in the Word. That is where our strength must always come from.

Ben Zobrist

#13. I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.'

Doug Harvey

#14. Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

Margaret Cho

#15. Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh ... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

A.S. Byatt

#16. My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Jeffrey Skoll

#17. Fascination takes many forms, but all tap into instinctive triggers, such as the need to hunt, to control, to feel secure, to nurture and be nurtured. Some fascinations last only a heartbeat, while others last beyond a seventy-fifth wedding anniversary.

Sally Hogshead

#18. Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available.

Joseph Heller

#19. We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

Georg Brandes

#20. You could never demand intimacy -- you could only volunteer it.

Elizabeth A. Lynn

#21. This here is Juan Sweeting, my second," Michael said. "Goes by Ceps." They shook, the man greeting him with a grunt. "How'd you get the name Ceps?" Peter asked. "I haven't heard that before." The man curled his arms, popping a pair of biceps like two large grapefruits.

Justin Cronin

#22. But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Alexander Pope

#23. Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Deepak Chopra

#24. Getting older is hard.

Alec Baldwin

#25. She felt free of everything that weighted her down on Earth. Free of danger, free of any pain she'd ever felt. Free of gravity.And so in love.

Lauren Kate