Nonnegotiable Quotes

#1. As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.

Hans Jonas

#2. Their world is governed by children, little despots whose needs - school and camp and activities and tutors - dictate every decision, and will for the next ten, fifteen, eighteen years[...] Having children has provided their adulthood with an instant and nonnegotiable sense of purpose and direction.

Hanya Yanagihara

#3. Maybe I find him ... interesting. Attractive in an uptight sort of way. But that won't keep me from killing him if he does something stupid - like try to double-cross us. That is something thats nonnegotiable, no matter how much fuck potential he might have.

Jennifer Estep

#4. The modern university is the institution through which the next generation's elite is formed. It inculcates the two essential, nonnegotiable principles of the American ruling class: consumerism and relativism.

Jonathan V. Last

#5. If you seek God as the nonnegotiable good of your life, you will get happiness thrown in. If, however, you aim mainly at personal happiness, you will get neither.

Timothy J. Keller

#6. The language of flowers is nonnegotiable, Victoria, Elizabeth said,

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#7. This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.

Sherry Turkle

#8. The nonnegotiable ethos of a confession may actually force a slacker generation to return to Scripture and steer through some difficult issues. Such may actually help us mature.

Anonymous

#9. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human;

Patrick O'Brian

#10. I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

Corey Smith

#11. I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write ...

Wilhelm Steinitz

#12. No, no. I have been practicing ... I bowled a 129. It's like
it was like Special Olympics, or something."
making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009

Barack Obama

#13. I'd say I was a tomboy ... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

Marisa Miller

#14. His wives had discovered early on what a poor or frightening prospect of a father he presented and they had protected themselves and got out.

Ian McEwan