Top 100 Not In Quotes
#1. The issue is not answering questions, but leaving discussions open. Not in the sense that probably one day you are going to have an answer or you are not going to have an answer. Just live your life, do what you have to do, what you are enthusiastic about doing.
Paulo Coelho
#2. According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.
Kage Baker
#3. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
Michel De Montaigne
#4. My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.
Dan Webster
#5. Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.
Ayelet Waldman
#6. The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
Rupert Sheldrake
#7. Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without these one] fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.
John Dewey
#8. If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
Johann Most
#9. To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it
Socrates
#10. Only as equals can we keep the peace. It is not in our nature, but it is the only way to survive.
Rachel Caine
#11. my curse is that i fall in love with
men who believe in gods but not in me.
Salma Deera
#12. I think often there is no good way out of something. No nice, easy ending or neat resolution, no clear way to set things right. That works in stories, in children's fairy tales, but not in real life. Nothing everything can be fixed. And perhaps not everything should be.
Elana K. Arnold
#14. Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it
Socrates
#15. A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place
Bill McKibben
#16. I am not in Us Weekly . I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
John Mayer
#17. In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
Andre Maurois
#18. My voice is my instrument ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back ...
Holly Near
#19. One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.
Giorgio Agamben
#20. There are so many kinds of beauty-have you ever looked in a small hidden pool in a wood, Becky? It's full of beauty, but it's not in the least spectacular, only restful and quiet and never-endingly fascinating.
Betty Neels
#21. When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
Charles Hodge
#22. People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
#23. I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.
Dan Fogelberg
#24. Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
Candace Cameron Bure
#25. In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin of the gods. "Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor" is an old and true saying of Petronius.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#27. Only direct experience of the peaceful internal state will remove doubt and provide enlightenment - not in a spooky, out-of-this-world kind of way, but in a rational, let's-turn-on-the-lights sort of way.
Gudjon Bergmann
#28. The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with ... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.
Will Self
#30. At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
John Ruskin
#31. If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, ... shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.
Marcia Gay Harden
#32. and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.
Adrienne Rich
#33. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.
Wim Crouwel
#34. You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
Hermann Hesse
#35. What I couldn't see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go.
Christina Baker Kline
#36. They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
Gregory Maguire
#37. The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
Etgar Keret
#38. The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts - the cells.
Theodor Schwann
#39. I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
Yulia Tymoshenko
#40. Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.
Jeff Bezos
#41. If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.
Corrie Ten Boom
#42. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
#43. The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#44. I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
Alan Lightman
#45. In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
Pete Sampras
#46. I have never felt any connection with my family. There is-I must say simply-something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.
Jean Cocteau
#47. The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
Oswald Chambers
#48. Hunched down in the small bright room Nel waited. Waited for the oldest cry. A scream not for others, not in sympathy for a burnt child, or a dead father, but a deeply personal cry for one's own pain. A loud, strident: 'Why me?' She waited.
Toni Morrison
#49. You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.
John Mulaney
#50. The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company. (Ellen Hopkins)
Ellen Hopkins
#51. But the Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.
John Stott
#52. While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
Brennan Manning
#53. My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone - never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it.
Paul Hoffman
#54. The wild is where you find it, not in some distant world relegated to a nostalgic past or an idealized future; its presence is not black or white, bad or good, corrupted or innocent... We are of that nature, not apart from it. We survive because of it, not instead of it.
Renee Askins
#55. Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks ... but not in my area.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#56. I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
Marshall McLuhan
#57. Not in depraved things,
but in those well oriented according to nature,
are we to consider what is natural.
Aristotle.
#58. How prettily we swim. Not in water, not on land, but in love.
Gertrude Stein
#59. Not in this lifetime, buddy," I said finally. "Resistance is futile, Kitten." "So is your charm." "We'll see.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#60. Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
Lady Caroline Lamb
#61. I know women who are not in the lifestyle wouldn't understand this, but watching Melanie arouse my man made my pussy wet.
Jessica N. Watkins
#62. Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield
#63. There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#64. Happiness is an awareness - a blissful perception, not in ownership or in material possessions.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
G.K. Chesterton
#66. If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
George W. Melville
#67. The day after I became king, S'yan offered a single piece of wisdom. 'Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.' This was profound. For it meant that the majesty of kings lay in their mystique... not in their might.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#68. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#69. DEAN: ...life sucked, and not in a good way.
Mina Carter
#70. We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.
Tommy Franks
#71. I trust that you'll find your way, and whether you succeed or not isn't significantly important. What damns a man lies in the choices he makes, not in the cards he's been dealt.
Yvonne Von Innes
#72. A sin ... consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
J.C. Ryle
#73. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
#74. I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
Marianne Faithfull
#75. Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons. For thou art crunchy and go well with Ketchup.
Unknown
#76. Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#77. It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.
Evan Parker
#78. That is their happiness: they see all life without observing it. They're buried in it like crabs in mud. Except men, of course. I am not in a mood, just yet, to talk of men.
John Gardner
#79. For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
H.L. Mencken
#80. Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Cato The Younger
#81. In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
Jane Pauley
#82. I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.
Marlon James
#83. Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
Carlos Castaneda
#84. IMPERCEPTIBLE IMPELLENT
God exists in the heart, not in the show of religious alignment
Kamil Ali
#85. The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.
George Inness
#86. Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.
Simone Weil
#87. I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").
Linus Torvalds
#88. I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
Jim Garrison
#89. Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Maimonides
#90. I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.
Ryan Reynolds
#91. We email, teleconference, webinar, but we are not in the room with the people. It is a false connectedness - artificial team-building. It's like eating the menu instead of the food.
Linda Robinson
#92. I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.
Ayn Rand
#93. May your strength be not in your fingernails but in your heart!
Kelly Flanagan
#94. Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.
Archibald Marwizi
#95. A lot of Democrats ask and a lot of people ask, "Why is it necessary for people in this country, who are not in law enforcement, to have assault weapons?"
Chuck Todd
#96. Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#97. When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not in himself.
Michel De Montaigne
#99. The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#100. Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you're not in denial, you're not pretending, and you're not avoiding.
Debbie Ford
