Top 100 Not For Me Quotes
#1. I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious.
Jay Carney
#2. Chase shook his head, his jaw set stubbornly. "You say that our responsibilities to the city have to come first. Not for me. My mate has to come first, every time.
Zoe Chant
#3. Moral codes were not designed to be selective, nor indeed were they designed to be questioned. You could not say that you would observe this prohibition but not that. I shall not commit theft
certainly not
but adultery is another matter: wrong for other people, but not for me.
Alexander McCall Smith
#4. This is why I didn't get married last year," she said to him. "I wouldn't be here to nurse you." She thought about that for a moment. "Of course, one could make the argument that you wouldn't be in this situation if not for me. But we're not going to dwell upon that.
Julia Quinn
#5. It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
Idi Amin
#6. Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.
Brendon Burchard
#7. I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.
Matthew Perry
#8. But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.
Sarah Silverman
#10. A pomegranate is filled with rubies when you open it up. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend - but not for me. I love rubies; they're great over necks, you know.
Lynda Resnick
#11. The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Muhammad
#12. There once was a man who was sore
'Cuz his wife wouldn't open the door.
Celibacy
is just not for me
Let me in, you cock-teasing whore.
Jake Wizner
#13. I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
Jack Brickhouse
#14. I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins
#15. Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.
Justin Broadrick
#16. This is the moment of the end. This is where we give up hope on reversing time, where we abandon finding a cure to death, where we live in this Theo-less universe, where we say goodbye. But I can't. It is goodbye for most, but not for me. Never me.
Adam Silvera
#17. Forgive? It's not easy, Millicent. But I must forgive. Even if he never say he sorry. I do my part. Leave Boone's part to God. That not for me to control. So, not for me to worry about.
Julie Cantrell
#18. He'd kill one to save me, but not to save himself. Just like I'd risk Dylan's life for him but not for me. It makes us a little horrible.
Hannah Moskowitz
#19. I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#20. The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and not feel shame.
Francesca Lia Block
#21. Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.
Karl Lagerfeld
#22. There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#23. It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.
Richard Branson
#24. An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us.
Vironika Tugaleva
#25. I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
Ang Lee
#26. Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.
Paul Desmond
#27. Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
Iris Apfel
#28. The east is not for me
the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.
Kami Garcia
#30. I dont know why, but I feel some pain when she knew I was writing a lot of writing for her and when she suddenly wrote one, it's not for me. You can't go on with the situation like that, it could have kill you at the exact moment.
Ariel Seraphino
#31. An urge to gather her close and tell her everything was going to be okay rode me hard, which was bullshit. Everything would not be okay in the end. Not for me. And not for her. She was just a tool, a last resort against the Titans, just like she ... like Alex had been a last resort.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#32. My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it's not for me.
Stephanie Sigman
#33. I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.
Shel Silverstein
#34. Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#35. I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.
Frank Oz
#36. Maybe Christ died for somebody but not for me.
Albert Camus
#37. It would be one kind of penance. And there are never enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for you, my friend.
John D. MacDonald
#38. I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
Cilla Black
#39. I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
Ted Rall
#40. I honor Earth First for having the guts to do the things they do. It's not for me, but I understand why they do what they do. And, ultimately, we all help each other.
Brock Adams
#41. What he offered me is not for me to keep, but for me to give to another.
Garth Stein
#42. Tab and I don't play it that way. You wanna order your old lady around, do what you do, not for me to say. I asked her to go, she didn't go. Not gonna make her. But you try, you'll deal with me
Kristen Ashley
#43. I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.
Story Musgrave
#44. It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Hermann Hesse
#45. Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
Gail Carson Levine
#46. Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.
Brian Clough
#47. Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Max Ernst
#48. If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!
Carlson Gracie
#49. One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.
Sarah Bernhardt
#50. I don't think I could live with anybody. I had roommates, and it's not for me. I like my space!
Ashley Benson
#51. Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there's definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It's also a very exciting thing, to do that.
Charlie Hunnam
#52. My friends said, 'You're crazy, enjoy single life.' But that's not for me.
Kurt Warner
#53. My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known. OK, but this is not for me, and it will not be for Little Igor.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#54. Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.
Donald Knuth
#55. I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.
Carlos Tevez
#56. All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
Bess Myerson
#57. Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. Weep not for me but for thy children.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#58. This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The lesson of Mimmy and my dad was not for me. It was for her. It was for them. I was so sick with understanding that I was practically yelling at her.
Joshilyn Jackson
#59. He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
William Shakespeare
#60. If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.
Edward Teller
#61. A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.
Steve Gleason
#62. But then, I do not know what love is. I know lust and anger. Despair and satisfaction. But love? No. That is not for me.
Jessica Clare
#63. GROWTH - It is not for me or for you, it is for US. When we grow, it literally means that the world grows with us and for us. Let us keep growing.
Ahamed Nafaz Raja.S.N
#64. Please, young sir! Have mercy! If not for me, please think of my dear wife and my four lovely children who'll be without their daddy!"
"You're not married," said Malicia. "You don't have any children!"
"I might want some one day!
Terry Pratchett
#65. I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
Aaron Johnson
#66. When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she's Ava Gardner. It's the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I'm never Grace Kelly, I'm always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.
Grace Kelly
#67. Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
Ikue Mori
#68. I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.
LeBron James
#69. Some people say vaulting is like riding a bike-but not for me. I have to put in a lot of days to feel confident in what I'm doing.
Stacy Dragila
#70. Don't cry, Raine. Not for me." "Someone should," she said.
Shay Savage
#71. I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of their Jewish existence and of their faith. I have always felt that that's not for me.
David Gregory
#72. If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.
Annie Lennox
#73. As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.
Michelle Fairley
#74. It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.
Paul Cornell
#75. I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
Sarah Dessen
#76. I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.
Jason Alexander
#77. My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.
Agatha Christie
#78. I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.
Paul Weller
#79. By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter.
Anne Bronte
#80. This secret-keeping business was not for me.
Liz Czukas
#81. Not for me, - I shall die in my bonds, - but for fresh young souls who have not known the night and waken to the morning; a morning when men ask of the workman, not "Is he white?" but "Can he work?" When men ask artists, not "Are they black?" but "Do they know?
W.E.B. Du Bois
#82. I'd rather have a career that utilizes my creativity, but torturing people all day long is not a bad gig. At least not for me.
Jarod Kintz
#83. I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.
Megan Alexander
#84. My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.
Matt Bomer
#86. I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the boy.
Charlaine Harris
#87. Now, tomorrow you got to put on a happy face, not for me, nor May, or anyone else, just for yourself. 'Cause that's a magic trick I learned a long time ago, if you look like you're happy, you soon get to be.
Lesley Pearse
#88. No, no, no. This ain't right. I finally find a woman who'll actually let me into her place and you bring her home for you? Oh, please tell me you brought her home for you and not for me. You didn't pimp me out again, Wulf, did you? I swear I'll stake you in your sleep if you did. (Chris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#89. I went to theater school in France, and when I finished I thought I would never go back to acting again. I don't want to be acting in theater. It's not for me. I'm sick of all this theater world, all these actors, and all that.
Tomas Lemarquis
#90. You're not for me."
"No?"
"Sadly not." He shook his head.
"Damn."
"Yeah, I know. You're really missing out." He sighed.
Kylie Scott
#91. It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
R. Buckminster Fuller
#92. At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.
Kelly Reilly
#93. What I came to understand is that change is not a choice, not for a species of plant, not for me. It happens, and you are different.
Charlie Kaufman
#94. That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.
Amy Poehler
#95. If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
Marcus Aurelius
#96. Today's business climate is not for me.
Berry Gordy
#97. I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.
Kami Garcia
#98. It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life.
Clive Davis
#99. I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.
H.P. Lovecraft
#100. It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up.
Chris Eubank Jr.
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