Not From Quotes

#1. Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment." And

Kahlil Gibran

#2. Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.

Ralph Nader

#3. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.

Anonymous

#4. We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

Jose Saramago

#5. The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#6. The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.

Egon Friedell

#7. Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

Billy Graham

#8. Wisdom ... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Anton Chekhov

#9. Every worm has his weak spot,' as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Alain De Botton

#11. Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

Joseph Barrell

#12. The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

Zephyr Teachout

#14. Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside.

John Kremer

#15. The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

David Cameron

#16. Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

Robert Gibbs

#17. I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#19. The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Seth Godin

#20. Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

C. G. Jung

#21. It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Wendell Berry

#22. Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

Robert B. Leighton

#23. I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

Oleta Adams

#24. Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.

Craig Stone

#25. [W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Meister Eckhart

#26. Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Jonathan Swift

#27. It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#28. Not from here is one of the most damning insults that can be tossed, carrying with it the eternal question mark of what an outsider might be carrying inside of them, a mental or biological dark passenger that will rear up and bite your ass thirty years down the road.

Mindy McGinnis

#29. Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Jeffrey Fry

#30. We are living from inside out not from outside in.

Sunday Adelaja

#31. When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.

Anton Chekhov

#32. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#33. I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.

Thaddeus Stevens

#34. The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is not something written by men and frozen in time. It is not from a source outside myself. My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

Sue Monk Kidd

#35. True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure - not from success.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

Zig Ziglar

#37. The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Cyril Connolly

#39. In truth, our concepts 'natural' and 'unnatural' are taken not from biology, but from Christian theology. The

Yuval Noah Harari

#40. A lot of people do comedy about India, but they're not from India. It's a Kwik-E-Mart perspective. I want to provide a genuine view and maybe one on how we see the West.

Vir Das

#41. The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

Andrew Shue

#42. There is a tendency to treat them as though they were acting, not from the inside, but from the outside, so that it may be possible to bring the shield against stimuli into operation as a means of defence against them.

Jean Laplanche

#43. I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.

Carolina Herrera

#44. Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy.
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well ...

William Shakespeare

#45. Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov

#46. The hardship in living out the vision comes from human frailty, and want of understanding; not from evil or malice. "Men

Basil Johnston

#47. He paused, I thought, like a man who is watching the effect of the terrors he excites, not from malignity but vanity, merely to magnify his own courage in encountering them.

Charles Robert Maturin

#48. To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.

Herman Melville

#49. Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

John Stuart Mill

#50. Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

Victor Hugo

#51. We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

Edward R. Murrow

#52. Women should never be ashamed to be feminine. Strength comes from conviction, not from acting like a man. Being feminine doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're proud to be a woman.

Steven James

#53. The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Ornette Coleman

#54. Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

LL Cool J

#55. An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.

Stephen Covey

#56. We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.

Julia Cameron

#57. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.

Margaret Atwood

#58. So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

Cornelius Nepos

#59. When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I've met in real life.

Abbas Kiarostami

#60. Though Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, yet not from the command of it,

Matthew Henry

#61. Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.

Jack Kerouac

#62. It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#63. ... mischief, ... arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.

Karen Swallow Prior

#64. Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.

Jill Telford

#65. Thank God there are places
with sounds that make me cry
from beauty,
not from pain.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#66. Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Tom Peters

#67. I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith - no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone. - OMAR KHAYYAM

Ernest Becker

#68. You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.

Edgar Cayce

#69. After seventy-eight days and 2,200 miles, the enterprise was in serious trouble - not from crocodiles, hippos, bandits, diseases, or even bureaucracy - but from simple human conflict.

Richard Bangs

#70. Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Pope Benedict XVI

#71. That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us.

Eve Ensler

#72. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages

Adam Smith

#73. Whosoever hath, to him it shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that

Neville Goddard

#74. I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it.

David Kay

#75. There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?

Mark Dunn

#76. In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline.

Rabindranath Tagore

#77. Time flies when you're falling down ... (not from a book, it's a lyric)

Courtney Love

#78. We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'

Dumitru Tepeneag

#79. I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side.

Nancy Greene

#80. [On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#81. Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.

Jackie Gleason

#82. She lied not from a desire to deceive but in order to correct reality and mitigate the absurdity that struck her world and mine.

Kamel Daoud

#83. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

Wilfred Grenfell

#84. Carma,
Here are the Pants and a little sketch I made of Leo. From memory, not from life. (And no, I'm not thinging of him day and night. God.)
Funny hair, huh?
He did not realize I was in his class. I think I'm making a big impression around here.
Love you,
Len

Ann Brashares

#85. Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.

Debasish Mridha

#86. But there is a cure in the house,
and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.

Aeschylus

#87. Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.

Lynn Austin

#88. Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.

Nhat Hanh

#89. We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

R.C. Sproul

#90. Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better.

David W. Earle

#91. I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.

Natasha Trethewey

#92. I think the best movies are made not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin, or the politics that you've had, or the place that you come from.

Harrison Ford

#93. If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it

Ralph Marston

#94. Importantly, the demand for day-care services to be provided by social insurance came from textile workers and not from the Mexican feminist movement.

Michelle L. Dion

#95. Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

Paulo Coelho

#96. Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

Alex Tabarrok

#97. He's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said.
"Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?

Barbara Kingsolver

#98. As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

Marianne Williamson

#99. We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.
Ender stopped. "Not from them.

Orson Scott Card

#100. The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

Steven Pressfield