Top 100 Not Enjoy Quotes
#1. My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
Jenny Slate
#2. At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl.
Nancy Mitford
#3. Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.
Gilbert Highet
#4. A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.
Saint John Chrysostom
#5. There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
Christopher Morley
#6. It is not so bad. It is just, when I come home so tired, and then he ... I do not enjoy it. My ... my marital duties."
"Oh, my God ... He makes you do chores?!?
Joss Whedon
#7. Live every day to its fullest, and do not be a slave to your hopes for the future. If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.
Jane Roberts
#8. Even a King wishes to be loved for Himself, not for the gifts He bestows." He smiled at me. "If you do not enjoy being with Me now, why do you believe you will enjoy My company for eternity?" He smiled at me. "The pursuer wants to be pursued also."
Jesus
Anna Rountree
#9. I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
Nelson Mandela
#10. We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.
Kofi Annan
#11. It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
George Muller
#12. As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.
Xi Jinping
#13. If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.
Amy Hoggart
#14. I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
Mary Shelley
#15. We profit little by books we do not enjoy.
John Lubbock
#16. Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate.
Marco Rubio
#17. People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you won't find me bungee-jumping ... It is a disadvantage that my pursuits are inherently dangerous. A large part of my effort is to reduce risk.
Steve Fossett
#18. I am a man who did not enjoy poetry until I heard a woman recite it. And in that desert she dragged her university days into our minds to describe the stars. That night I fell in love with a voice.
Michael Ondaatje
#19. We're all going to hell anyway, why not enjoy the ride?
Robert Ferrigno
#20. To me, it's a little odd to ever think 'model into actor.' I modeled once. I was about as far from a decent model as you can possibly be. I did not enjoy the world at all. I fell in my stilettos quite a bit.
Analeigh Tipton
#21. I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash - absolutely.
Charlie Day
#22. You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
P.G. Wodehouse
#23. I should probably warn you ... I had a personal trainer once. He and I did not enjoy each other.
Priscilla Glenn
#26. I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.
Gerry Lindgren
#27. We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.
C.S. Lewis
#28. I felt God had conned me by telling me to marry Grace, and allowed Grace to rule over me since she was controlling our sex life. I loved Grace, but in the bedroom I did not enjoy her and wondered how many years I could white-knuckle fidelity.
Mark Driscoll
#29. The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.
Aristotle.
#30. If you happen to be a person who does not enjoy your own company, a visit to Edinburgh in January will teach you how it's done.
Vivian Swift
#31. As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven ... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.
John Climacus
#32. Excepting Will," Mrs. Bulloch amended. "Such an affront to put upon ye, Thomas! Yon man'll not enjoy heaven if he gets there." "He'll
D.E. Stevenson
#33. I don't want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens. I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.
Sandra Bullock
#34. There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?
Peter Diamandis
#35. If we want developed societies with women doctors, political leaders, teachers, bus drivers, and computer programmers, we will need qualified people to give loving care to their children. And there is no reason why every society should not enjoy such loving paid child care.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#36. There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.
Colin Powell
#37. He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.
Coco Chanel
#38. The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws ...
Stephen Fry
#39. Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. I wanted to take from him. Not enjoy what he'd give
Pepper Winters
#41. But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.
F. E. Adcock
#42. An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.
Samuel Beckett
#43. I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.
Adoniram Judson
#44. You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.
Josh Duhamel
#45. I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.
Don Ho
#46. We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries.
Brandon Mull
#47. Life's too short to not enjoy each day we're given to live.
Marie Daley
#48. Write something that people might not "enjoy" but will never forget.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. Most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.
Larry Burkett
#50. No, I didn't enjoy that in the least. Do it again so I can not enjoy it some more.
Katie MacAlister
#51. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.
Hugh MacLeod
#52. I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#53. I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
Naomie Harris
#54. He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Samuel Butler
#55. I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
Israel Horovitz
#56. If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
George Bernard Shaw
#57. unless a person learns to set goals and to recognize and gauge feedback in such activities, she will not enjoy them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#58. It is difficult to learn what you do not enjoy. So love every bit of knowledge and enjoy every moment.
Debasish Mridha
#59. I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
Audre Lorde
#60. We are already in Hell. It is the earth itself that is Hell, the prison constructed for us by an intelligence superior to our own, in which I could not take a step without injuring the happiness of others, and in which my fellow creatures could not enjoy their own happiness without causing me pain.
August Strindberg
#61. There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.
Sarah Hall
#62. If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?
Henry David Thoreau
#63. No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
Helen Clark
#64. I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
Cilla Black
#65. He did not enjoy speaking about women with other men, a practice which, in his estimation, was always clownish and braying.
Eleanor Catton
#66. Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
Robert Henri
#67. There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.
Meryl Streep
#68. The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The
Karen Armstrong
#69. Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.
Gregor Piatigorsky
#70. Why should one not enjoy in a light-hearted sort of way stories of ladies and gentlemen who fall in love and express their feelings for each other, often in most elegant phrases?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#71. ...they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane person have for wanting to not enjoy himself any more?
Flannery O'Connor
#72. To see distinctly the machinery
the wheels and pinions
of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.
Edgar Allan Poe
#73. Freedom is inevitable; it is only the matter of the form in which it occurs. I think it is not the freedom per se that matters but the capacity to absorb it. I could have it and yet not enjoy it.
Aporva Kala
#74. The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.
Thomas A Kempis
#75. As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite
Luke Jermay
#76. I'm on a mission. If I can make even one person not enjoy something they're currently enjoying, it's all worth it!
Andy Kindler
#77. No matter how many thousands friends you've had, or even more likes you've got, but if you do not enjoy being yourself, then you just keep lying to yourself and unto others as well.
Toba Beta
#78. While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.
William Hazlitt
#79. I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.
Novak Djokovic
#80. Cats do not enjoy being reminded of debts.
Cats don not incur in debts.
Robin Hobb
#81. I'm never going again. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#82. My favorite color is violet. The scent of roses makes me feel at home, wherever I am. I do not enjoy fish, but I will eat it to make a loved one happy, suffering through my smile.
Renee Ahdieh
#83. The everyday man does not enjoy tarrying. Everything, on the contrary, hurries him onward. But at the same time nothing interests him more than himself, especially his potentialities.
Albert Camus
#84. I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited.
Neil Gaiman
#85. When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it.
Lisa See
#86. If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.
Paul Berman
#87. If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#88. I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.
Clay Aiken
#89. Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
Julian Of Norwich
#90. She liked to think that she was wearing her beauty out - using it up, she liked to think. She took some satisfaction in it, like a housewife industriously making her way through a jar of something she did not enjoy, would not buy again, but couldn't just discard, of course.
Anne Tyler
#91. Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
Edward Yourdon
#93. You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.
Joyce Meyer
#94. Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.
Mick Hucknall
#95. You have eternity to experience your awakened self. So why not enjoy the dream while you're in it, even if it is limited?
Teresa Tsalaky
#96. Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
Atwood H. Townsend
#98. To the divine providence it has seemed good to prepare in the world to come for the righteous good things, which the unrighteous shall not enjoy; and for the wicked evil things, by which the good shall not be tormented.
Augustine Of Hippo
#99. Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed that dogs smell fear. Cats don't say.
Douglas Woolf
#100. Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.
Frederick Lenz
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