Top 100 Not Do Quotes
#1. He said, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you." And how had he loved them? Not by feeling emotional! But He washed their feet anyway, because love does not do what it feels, it does what is needed.
Nick Harrison
#2. Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#3. Suddenly, it hit me. Why not do a talk show that featured not one, but four engaging female hosts of varying ages and perspectives. . . create a "kitchen table" forum for discussion. If it was on their minds, ya gotta figure that it's on the minds of half of American women, right?
Jamie Collins
#4. I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
Margaret Thatcher
#5. The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this Certain Way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.
Wallace D. Wattles
#7. Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter
Condoleezza Rice
#8. It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!
Richard Parks Bland
#9. I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it ... I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
George Bernard Shaw
#10. What did she want him to say - that he was still hurt over his disappointment with Margaret Macy? After all this time? It was imbecilic. He would not do it.
Julie Klassen
#11. What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?
Bernice L. McFadden
#12. I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!'
'And I've tried living without you, and it just won't do!
J.L. Sheppard
#13. I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.
Johnny Manziel
#14. You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
Martial
#15. Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
Richard Marius
#16. Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
#17. What you must not do now is to worry and think of the Nationals that is now of the past. What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will become. Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. I have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.
Bruce Lee
#18. To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Confucius
#19. Ghost implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like Casper to you?"
"Fine," said Nick. "We're not ghosts, we're Undefined Spectral Doohickies. USDs. Are you happy now?
Neal Shusterman
#20. If you feel you can not do it, look at me, think and say I can do that too.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#21. We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Joseph Joubert
#24. A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish.
Vincent De Paul
#25. The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world.
Eric Hoffer
#26. There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
#27. Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.
Robert Greene
#28. Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
Hugo Black
#29. But when it comes to questions of meaning, purpose, and death, secondhand information will not do. I cannot survive on a secondhand faith in a secondhand God. There has to be a personal word, a unique confrontation, if I am to come alive.25
M. Scott Peck
#30. Then why do you want to know?"
"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Umberto Eco
#31. Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.
Neill Blomkamp
#32. It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. I shall answer all the questions you are afraid to ask me openly. Do I wish to pay my workers more than their services are worth to me? I do not. Do I wish to sell my product for less than my customers are willing to pay me? I do not. Do I wish to sell it at a loss or give it away? I do not.
Ayn Rand
#34. I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations
Winston S. Churchill
#35. Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Adolphe Monod
#36. I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.
Aron Ralston
#37. It takes more time to not do something than it does to do something.
Robert J. Braathe
#38. If the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.
Emma Goldman
#39. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#40. Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
Julia Cameron
#41. Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm,
The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port
May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part
Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
Ben Jonson
#42. People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
Carl Lewis
#43. Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
Benjamin E. Mays
#44. I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing ... Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
Utah Phillips
#46. To know and not do, is to not yet know.
Confucius
#47. If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.
Park Chan-wook
#48. Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
Henry David Thoreau
#49. Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...
Sigrid Undset
#50. After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming
#51. Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive
Sunday Adelaja
#52. When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.
W. Edwards Deming
#53. I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything about it knows that good actors do both - they do inside-outward and they do outside-inward. You can't not do both.
Edward Norton
#54. In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#55. I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.
Pauley Perrette
#56. A hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.
Romain Rolland
#57. I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.
Vijay Singh
#58. When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will
Swami Vivekananda
#59. 45Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, j you did not do it to me.' 46And these will go away k into eternal punishment, but the righteous k into l eternal life.
Anonymous
#60. If it is unappetizing: Do not eat, date, or sign up for it. If the mere thought of it is depressing: Do not major in it, sit through it, or devote your life to it. If it is not important to you: Do not do it only because it is important to someone else. You will thank yourself
Jessica Hagy
#61. We are in charge of our own lives and how we spend our time. You should never do something you don't want to do. Lives are incredibly short. If it doesn't feel right to do something then you have permission to not do it. Who cares what other people will think?
Shannon Kaiser
#62. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. JANE AUSTEN
Melanie Shankle
#63. Said one of the wise: the wrath of you did not do evil in you, "Go for it authors of" you, anger exposes quality of human beings
Undefined
#64. I can't make any promises ... I became a scientist because ... it's ike panning for gold in a muddy torrent. Truth is the gold. I- I don't know what I want to do ... '
'Journalists work in torrents just as muddy.'
The moon is over the water.
'Do ... whatever you can't not do.
David Mitchell
#65. Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Samuel Johnson
#66. Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
Robert Henri
#67. Every difficult task that comes across your path - every one that you would rather not do, that will take the most effort, cause the most pain, and be the greatest struggle - brings a blessing with it.
Lettie B. Cowman
#68. She waved through the dirty window from her seat as the train started up. I did not do the ape act. I stood there and did the human act as well as possible.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#70. You don't need a team! Often, we do not do certain things because we feel that to take up something new, we need a team or at least one more person who thinks as we do. If you are smart enough you may not need any one else!
Abhishek Ratna
#71. My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to become a singer.
Sonu Nigam
#72. I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.
Zachary Lazar
#73. Doctors are allowed to tell us things which they might not do themselves. They know what the right thing is, but they may not be able to do it themselves. That does not mean that their advice is bad advice.
Alexander McCall Smith
#74. But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.
Teresa De Lauretis
#75. All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen
#76. That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Law. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn.
Rabbi Hillel
#77. I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.
Chuck Palahniuk
#78. No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
Florence Nightingale
#79. Make certain decisions only once ... We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and then make them ours - without having to brood and re-decide a hundred times what it is we will do and what we will not do.
Spencer W. Kimball
#80. David's experience of unmitigated blessing from the hand of God might have lulled David into thinking that he was not accountable and that God would continue to bless him no matter what David did or did not do (what Walter Brueggemann describes as "moral autonomy").
David R. Bauer
#81. A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.
Martin Luther
#83. I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.
Wesley Clark
#84. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.
E. M. Forster
#85. You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
Yo-Yo Ma
#86. When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox
H.L. Mencken
#87. Second, the Tourette's patient cannot not do it: they cannot use free
David Eagleman
#88. My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.
John Boyega
#89. The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.
Carol Emshwiller
#90. The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
Elbert Hubbard
#91. I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
Dan Simmons
#92. I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.
Edwin Edwards
#93. I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
Abraham Lincoln
#94. The effects of preaching are a miracle." A good preacher converts persons; he casts out devils from the hearts of those whom he changes from sin to holiness. This he could not do without power from God. But what seems good, is often not good.
J.C. Ryle
#95. If you don't let me go, you won't feel quite so human anymore. Being human isn't about whether you fit in or look like the rest of us. It's about who you are and what you're willing to do or not do.
Susan Ee
#96. Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?
Ellen Mulholland
#97. Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within.
John Wooden
#98. Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice.
I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?
Nancy Mitford
#99. The masses are always wrong - Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
Charles Bukowski
#100. Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.
Edward O. Wilson
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