Top 100 Not Getting Quotes
#1. I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.
Dennis Christopher
#2. When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.
Craig Sheffer
#3. I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.
Tamora Pierce
#4. Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness is the key initial step.
Marsha Petrie Sue
#5. I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
Matt Bomer
#6. It was so much easier when I don't want anything. Not getting want you want want can make you cruel.
David Levithan
#7. Be comfortable with "Not getting to bottom of everything"
Sometimes unconsciously we must find out why this happened, who started what, how am I going to do this.
Have faith that things will work out, and be GOOD with knowing that some things are unexplainable.
Matthew Donnelly
#8. Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.
Ezer Weizman
#9. You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.
Chuck Palahniuk
#10. This seems like some type of romantic mood lighting." I turn to him. "And I can tell you right now that you're not getting sex tonight."
He laughs and puts his hand on my shoulder. "Tonight? So you'd consider it some other night? Okay. That works for me.
Allie Everhart
#11. It's so funny because a lot of times we'll have these discussions as writers, and you feel like you're having a discussion with your wife: 'I don't know. Are they ready to have another baby? Is it time? Well, she's not getting any younger.'
Jason Katims
#12. My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.
Wladimir Klitschko
#13. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.
Kiera Cass
#14. Um, hate to break it to you, nut Em doesn't need justice", I pointed out, voice heavy with sarcasm. "She needs to not get cut with a knife in the first place. Women are finicky that way - we like not getting cut.
Joanna Wylde
#15. Avoiding sin isn't about us not getting in trouble; it is about us trusting that the Creator knows his creation best and has designed the world to work in a certain way.
Jefferson Bethke
#16. You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#17. Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me ... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
Gus Van Sant
#18. EVERY morning, when I open my eyes to the so-called "new day," I feel like closing them again, staying in bed, and not getting up. But I can't do that.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Due to not getting pumped regular, females take the oddest fancies, such as imagining they can think.
Loretta Chase
#20. The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
Krishna Das
#21. We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
Oliver North
#22. I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).
Amy Poehler
#23. It's not getting it right the first time
it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.
Susan Mallery
#24. Obviously I'm not getting much sleep. You guys can see I'm not getting much sleep right now, but I'm OK with that. I'm OK with not sleeping to be able to prepare myself and mentally keep myself intact on what's the main objective for me right now.
LeBron James
#25. - I hope I'm not getting in your way.
- I don't have any way for you to get in.
Haruki Murakami
#26. It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.
Bill Maher
#27. It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.
Alexandra Potter
#28. Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
Larry Wall
#29. Absolutely pay off credit card debt. If you're not getting a match in your 401(k) and you've got credit card debt, you've got to get yourself out of credit card debt. When you get out of credit card debt, your credit score goes up and interest starts to go down.
Suze Orman
#30. Justice is getting what you deserve.
Mercy is not getting what you deserve.
And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.
... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift
Cathleen Falsani
#31. I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.
Billy Bob Thornton
#32. When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.
Jack Nicholson
#33. In other words, when women acquire critical skills and starting weighing their options they soon wise up to the fact that they're not getting enough recompense for their labors. In trade union terms, you'd call it a production slowdown ...
Meghan Daum
#34. Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.
George W. Romney
#35. If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.
Shannon Leto
#36. It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
David Levithan
#38. I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.
Rick Bass
#39. There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.
Dominic Cooper
#40. You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
Carolyn Hax
#41. I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that.
Paul Farmer
#42. There are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. I'm not getting much penetration here!" Gibbs yelled.
"Aim for an open mouth!" Walsh barked. "It's their weakest point! When you empty the cartridge, load armour piercing rounds!"
Alan shouted, "For the record, I'm very uncomfortable firing ballistics inside a space ship!
Jennifer Foehner Wells
#44. True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.
Bill Gothard
#45. Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.
Joe Green
#46. If you're dealing with a pack of werewolves I'll jump in without hesitation, but I was not getting in the middle of a pack of crazed shoppers on Black Friday
James R Tuck
#47. Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers
Tony Robbins
#48. The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.
Yaroslav Trofimov
#49. These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.
Jerry Sloan
#50. Sometimes
sometimes it just hits me, you know? And, it's not getting any easier." I choke, my eyes flooding all over again.
"I'm not sure that it will. I think you just get used to the feeling, the hollowness, the loss, and somehow learn to live around it
Alyson Noel
#51. Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.
Aimee Bender
#52. If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.
Andrew Weil
#54. As John Newton said, if we are not getting much out of going to God in prayer, we will certainly get nothing out of staying away.
Timothy J. Keller
#55. I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.
David Boreanaz
#56. You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.
Feist
#57. Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
Bill Griffith
#58. I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!
Chris Evert
#59. Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.
Josh Peck
#60. I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
Jason Bateman
#61. The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
Zig Ziglar
#62. I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
Hedy Lamarr
#63. People who are checking things off the list all the time might look like they're getting stuff done," he said, "but they're not getting the big stuff done.
Anonymous
#64. Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
Helen Keller
#65. Good job not getting blown up." Men, in Tabitha's opinion, always seemed to need praise. Accordingly, she made an effort to dole it out. "Thank you," Stephen said drily. "I wasn't sure the mission was a success until just now." "I
Natalie Grey
#66. Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.
Peter McWilliams
#67. Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth ... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
John Templeton
#68. If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.
Molly Ivins
#69. Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
Jack Dee
#70. Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
[Verse 223]
Gautama Buddha
#71. We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.
Rick Riordan
#72. The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.
Mark McGwire
#73. So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll
#74. Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again
Mary Pickford
#75. You're not getting away from me. Never again. - Percy
Rick Riordan
#76. Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
Hayley Mills
#77. He kept messing with her, trying to get her to sleep with him, but Eve had yet to do anything but tease him. In a world full of whores and junkies, not getting laid was a huge turn-on.
Debra Anastasia
#78. When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.
Mark Nepo
#79. Ask anyone; possibly ninety-five percent of our wishes have come true. The unfortunate part is, we all overlook that, and regret all our lives and torment ourselves for not getting the other five percent.
Uday Mukerji
#80. But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers - and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.
Muriel Siebert
#81. My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.
Stephen Root
#82. I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.
Kenny Smith
#83. Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.
Alan Cohen
#84. What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford
#85. The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
Eduardo Galeano
#86. Quote taken from Chapter 1
Bill hung up, grumbling to nobody in particular. Emily was about the only caller using the landline phone, and he regretted not getting rid of it. The Robinses were probably the lone holdouts on their city block to still have one.
Ed Lynskey
#87. Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!
Sailor Jerry
#88. I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.
Paul Weller
#89. I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.
Hope Davis
#90. I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.
Paul Darrow
#91. Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
Molly Ivins
#92. Real failure', so they say, is not 'the falling down'. Real failure is 'not getting up again'.
Peter Jones
#93. Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
Lorii Myers
#94. It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.
Damian Woetzel
#95. 'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
Gary Sinise
#96. I don't get nominated, and I have to say, I've probably gotten the greatest mass of press in my life through not getting nominated. It's definitely been a winning situation as far as I'm concerned.
Nick Offerman
#97. The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.
Lemony Snicket
#98. First, I'm not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn't have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have kids, it would be a cold day in hell I'd let you babysit.
Jennifer Crusie
#99. Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
Robert A. Heinlein
#100. Quit it," Kitty warns. "We're not getting a cat. Cats are blah. They're also very manipulative
Jenny Han
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