Top 100 Not For You Quotes
#1. TRUST YOUR FEELINGS BEFORE YOU TRUST ANYONE ELSE. YOUR FEELINGS ARE YOUR DIVINE GUIDANCE. IF ANYTHING MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD, THEN DO IT. IF YOU DO NOT GET A GOOD FEELING, THEN IT IS NOT FOR YOU.
Premlatha Rajkumar
#2. If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
Edmund White
#3. The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else's suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your misery? Their tears are real, but they are not for you.
Christian Wiman
#4. She is not for you. She is a wild one
wild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi.
Bernard Malamud
#6. It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.
Neale Donald Walsch
#7. As a very basic guideline, when someone else asks for your yes in a situation that is good for them, but not for you, your yes is not required and may be harmful to your ability to say any genuine yes to life.
Jane Meredith
#8. You got to get outta here, Josie. New Orleans is fine for some people, real good for a few. But not for you. Too much baggage that'll pull you down. You got dreams and the potential to make 'em real.
Ruta Sepetys
#9. Your coming to Christ is not for you to fill up the seats or to take part in rites
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don't deserve my spring.
Erin Hanson
#11. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don't waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.
Etgar Keret
#12. Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way.
Stephan Labossiere
#13. I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.
Robert Stone
#14. If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
Teresa Of Avila
#15. Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
Auliq Ice
#16. I made a mistake,
to learn from it,
not for you to critize
Anish Rajan
#17. When you know all of those things exist for other people but not for you, sometimes it's very hard to endure the not having.
Susan Sheehan
#18. But no, "R." No sleep of the innocent. Not for you. Did you forget? You have blood on your hands. On your lips. On your teeth. Smile for the cameras.
Isaac Marion
#19. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.
Daniel Handler
#20. Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.
Marc Almond
#21. I felt like I was being eaten alive by guilt, and what I needed what your patience and your kindness, not for you to yell at me.
Veronica Roth
#22. Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.
John Wooden
#23. Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.
Stacia Kane
#24. I put my freezing hands on his cheeks and instead of pushing them away, he said, "Ahh, feels good." I laughed and said, "That's because you're coldhearted." He put my hands in his coat pockets and said in a voice so soft I wondered if I heard him right, "For everyone else, maybe. But not for you.
Jenny Han
#25. After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'Rourke
#26. It is not for you to determine your purpose, the reason for your existence. You discover your purpose by asking the Creator why he created you!
Pedro Okoro
#27. The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.
Angelina Jolie
#28. Words to live by: If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
Robin Glasser
#29. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.
Cassandra Clare
#30. The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Gutfreund (pronounced Good friend) liked to sneak up from behind and surprise you. This was fun for him but not for you.
Michael Lewis
#32. Democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.
Anne Stevenson
#33. Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.
Stephen King
#34. You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
Bjork
#35. It is not for you, a son of Adam, to know what faults a star can commit.
C.S. Lewis
#36. The war is not for you, Arjuna, but for civilized human conduct. Remember,
Devdutt Pattanaik
#37. If you don't want to worship a guy you can beat up, then I might humbly suggest you reconsider Caesar and the Greco-Roman narrative. It sounds like 'Christ and him crucified' is not for you. At least not yet.
Brian D. McLaren
#38. The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.
Charles Spurgeon
#39. Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.
Anne Bronte
#40. Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#41. I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it.
Chris Morris
#42. Each one has their gifts.
They are not for you-
they are to give!
Hemat Malak
#43. LADY ANNE:
What, do you tremble? Are you all afraid?
Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal,
And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil. -
William Shakespeare
#44. People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.
James Baldwin
#45. How did you get out of the suicide door?" Her disbelief was a living, pettable thing.
"Magic."
Her eyes narrowed. "There is no magic."
"Maybe not for you. But I'm from out of town.
Dia Reeves
#46. And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.
Maryann Brandon
#47. When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.
Trent Reznor
#48. You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.
Howard Pyle
#49. No, Zoey."
Heat sounded pissed.
It's not okay here. Not for you."
Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.
P.C. Cast
#50. Not for you," Lila replies ardently, "you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.
Elena Ferrante
#51. It is not for you to prove anything to me, Two Wolves. It is for you to find your purpose. A man with no purpose is a man with no soul.
Victoria Vane
#52. 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
#53. If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#55. Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.
Bryant McGill
#56. As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
Seth Godin
#57. You don't need sex for that kind of thing to happen. For your body to forget how to tell if it's hungry or not. For you to mistake someone else's hunger for your own.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#58. She's not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.
Robert Jordan
#59. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is NOT for you. (BUMPER STICKER)
Darynda Jones
#60. You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.
Rajneesh
#61. What kind of person would I be if I told you it was all right for me to risk my life, but not for you?
Cassandra Clare
#63. What is the meaning of life? This meaning is not for you to find, but for you to define. The meaning of life is found in the purposes that we pursue as we grow older.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#64. You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late."
"No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never.
Richelle Mead
#65. I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe Ruth
#66. Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.
Wayne Dyer
#67. If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.
Simon Toyne
#68. If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.
Bob Dylan
#69. Some things don't need to be mended.
Some things are not meant to be mended. Some things are not for you to mend.
Merrie Haskell
#70. It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
John Jay Chapman
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Danger for the mind, of course, but not for you.
Osho
#78. If they say "it's impossible" remember it's impossible to them, not for you.
Unknown
#79. Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10
Philip Roth
#80. I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.
Larry Fitzgerald
#81. Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.
Jay Asher
#82. You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to him. The torments and hells of [crazy men], are not for you.
Anais Nin
#83. Phillip laughed. "You always did give great head." "And I'll continue to - just not for you." With that I winked before walking away
Ethan Day
#84. My dearest girl, dearer to me than anything in life, if you are unhappy, let me share your unhappiness. If you are in need of help or counsel, let me try to give it to you. If you have indeed a burden on your heart, let me try to lighten it. For whom do I live now, Agnes, if it is not for you!
Charles Dickens
#85. You still love her, don't you?" Pie said, once they were out and walking. "Of course I love her," Estabrook said. "That's why I want her dead." "There's no resurrection, Mr. Estabrook. Not for you, at least." "It's not me who's dying," he said. "I think it is," came the
Clive Barker
#86. your lack of knowledge may not for you but surely it is dangerous for your child because you cannot teach them which you your self do not know
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#87. You really need to give us much love as you possibly can. Be kind. Be of service to people, not for you to gain anything but just out of pure love. That's what people are lacking, that pure genuine love.
DeLisha Milton-Jones
#88. Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.
Ann Wilson
#89. You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
Yasmin Mogahed
#90. I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.
J.K. Rowling
#91. There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.
Dennis Quaid
#92. Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.
Pete Dexter
#93. Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.
Cormega
#95. I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.
Josh Radnor
#96. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
Haruki Murakami
#97. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
John Steinbeck
#98. Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility ...
Christopher Cross
#99. Get you dead ass out of the sarcophagus and follow along," Tern muttered. "And no yelling for guards, and no continuing forward when we stop and then stomping all over us and crushing our spines and skulls under your undead feet because we didn't explicitly tell you not to do that.
Patrick Weekes
#100. I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn't. And it's never fun. It's all to easier though when I don't like somebody or when they're really, really bad then it becomes much easier.
Donald Trump
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