Top 100 Not For Quotes
#2. This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.
Paulo Freire
#3. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
Rex Stout
#4. The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.
Dan Inosanto
#5. I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.
Daniel Radcliffe
#6. Word 'Classy' is not for commons. Try to be classy!
Anamika Mishra
#8. I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.
Siobhan Davis
#9. I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.
Sharon E. Rainey
#11. We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
Douglas Adams
#12. Hands are not for hurting but should always be used to better our world.
Always remember a bully never wins unless you believe their hurtful words and then it will keep you from truly living!
Timothy Pina
#13. Take any job, get started and stop with the video games and pot. I'm not for that.
Dana Perino
#14. Danger for the mind, of course, but not for you.
Osho
#15. Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.
Peter D. Schiff
#16. If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
Elizabeth Edwards
#17. This was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.
J.G. Ballard
#18. I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
Will Self
#19. Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic.
M.F. Moonzajer
#20. Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
Orison Swett Marden
#21. The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.
J.I. Packer
#22. Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.
Luis Barragan
#23. The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.
Richard Baxter
#24. We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been,
George W. Merck
#25. When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
Dick Bruna
#26. The strange thing was that you felt such a great sense of affection, not for anything or for anyone, but the fullness of what may be called love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#28. If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
Wayne Newton
#29. It occurs to me, not for the first time, that things change whether you're around to notice them or not.
Katie Cotugno
#30. Happiness can come solely from within, but not for long - The Bern Seer -
Hugh Howey
#31. Would we love the warm sunny days as much, if it were not for the cold rainy ones?
Charles F. Glassman
#32. Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible
Sarah Dessen
#33. The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead; it is the living only that has any right in it.
Thomas Paine
#34. Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale ... Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.
Denis Waitley
#35. Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.
Felix Dennis
#36. I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.
Dalai Lama
#38. There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#39. Oh, Draven. You're my hero too! If not for you, that mean old boar would have eaten me alive. (Simon)
Get off me, you nimble-pated gelding. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#40. When I awaken in the morning, I Thank God, not for my life, but for yours, because without you, I could not exsist
Rick Ferreira
#41. A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity.
Confucius
#42. I'm going to stab you through the heart with the same blade ... not for the good of the world ... but for myself.
Kaori Yuki
#43. It was hard to be human. Hell, it was hard to live at all. Life was definitely not for the meek.
Everytime something seemed to go right, at least 3 or 4 things had to go wrong. It was just the law of nature.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.
Alexander Whyte
#45. Sometimes I hated myself but not for long.
Alan Bradley
#46. Next time someone tells you 'never,' remember that means 'not for at least one hour.'
Jeffrey Gitomer
#47. It struck me, not for the first time, that there seemed to be more places in Australia for tourists to go than there were tourists to fill them. At
Bill Bryson
#48. Miracles are not for grown men, they are for children or unbelievers.
Sunday Adelaja
#49. What did it feel like, I wondered, to be kissed like that right out in public? Not like some passionate tongue-wrestling thing, just a kiss to declare: We are each other's. I'd never been kissed like that, not by him or anyone else. No one had declared me his, not for the whole world to see, anyway.
Sara Zarr
#50. I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.
Cheryl Tiegs
#51. Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Muhammad Iqbal
#52. Thank you people that are laughing with your hand away from your mouth. That joke is clearly not for everyone, but I enjoy watching people that don't laugh make the people that do laugh feel shitty about themselves.
Daniel Tosh
#53. I wouldn't take that tablet Cassia. Not for a report. And perhaps not ever. You are strong enough to go without it.
Ally Condie
#54. While I'm all for positivity, I'm not for forced positivity. "Being positive" doesn't respect our pain, struggles, or challenges. You have to feel the positivity coming from the inside; you can't smash it into yourself from the outside.
Kira Lynne
#55. Act, not for results, just for action.
Give, not for appreciation, just to help.
Be kind, not for something in return, just to love.
Debasish Mridha
#57. When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
Myles Munroe
#58. It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.
J. Michael Straczynski
#59. My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.
Ibn Al-Farid
#60. There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
Helen Keller
#61. Choosing to be deligent in all areas of your life is not for the weak of heart. It requires hope, strength and the ability to see the light through the fog.
Deborah Day
#62. I don't know what this is you're trying to do, but you and I are not the same." He took another step back from me. "And I am not for you. I'm not your white knight. I'm just the guy who wanted to fuck you.
Samantha Young
#63. 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
#64. The bell tolling not for us, it's time for bluebells.
Lara Biyuts
#65. In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
Bill Moyers
#66. I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!
Gloria Stuart
#67. The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
Edward Abbey
#68. If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.
Michael Audain
#70. Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.
Cassandra Clare
#71. I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'
Donatella Versace
#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. The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.
Nelson Mandela
#74. Bosoms," she announces, with a hand to her own, "are for bedrooms and breastfeeding. Not for occasions with dignity."
"Well, what do you want her to do, Eleanor? Leave them at home?
Kathryn Stockett
#75. To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.
Ravi Zacharias
#76. All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms. But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.
John Francis Xavier O'Conor
#77. I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it.
Dennis Muren
#78. Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.
B. Traven
#79. It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.
C.S. Lewis
#80. I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
Little Richard
#81. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
Bram Stoker
#82. The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
Ziggy Marley
#83. Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
Danielle Steel
#84. Bet on technical insights that help solve a big problem in a novel way, optimize for scale, not for revenue, and let great products grow the market for everyone.
Eric Schmidt
#85. Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.
Malorie Blackman
#86. What is meat for one is not for another
no accounting for fancy.
Abigail Adams
#87. Religion is for the intimacy of your heart, not for your tongue and hands to hurt others.
Gabbo De La Parra
#89. I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.
Grover Norquist
#90. Annie laughed. She had a face, a body, made not for a Paris runway but for good meals and books by the fire and laughter. She was constructed from, and for, happiness. But it had taken Annie Gamache a long while to find it. To trust it.
Louise Penny
#91. I'm for gay marriage. I've been married for 14 years. Marriage is not for everybody, it's not easy and divorce is there for a reason. If a gay person wants to get married, get married.
Wendy Williams
#92. I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
Eva Zeisel
#93. But you could not blame someone for dying. For leaving on purpose, perhaps, as her brother had left her and her parents, but not for dying, the power over which was surely beyond the grasp of any mortal human.
Cassandra Clare
#94. Why was I chosen?'
'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#95. A bra was not for little kids who dreamed of being astronauts. What are you gonna do with boobs in space? Unless they are currency for some far-flung civilization, all they're going to do is interfere with proper oxygen flow inside your space suit.
Aisha Tyler
#96. Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. Lucifer's last words in heaven may have been "Non serviam," but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil's hell on earth.
Thomas Ligotti
#98. In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, one would almost be damaged by travel in these historic lands.
William T. Sherman
#99. Religion should be a basis for overcoming division, not for creating it.
Julia Suryakusuma
#100. The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved
Charles Spurgeon
