Top 100 Not Mine Quotes
#1. Hospitality, however, seeks to minister. It says, "This home is not mine. It is truly a gift from my Master. I am His servant and I use it as He desires." Hospitality does not try to impress, but to serve.
Karen Burton Mains
#2. The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie
#3. I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have your own cat, you really don't understand.
Denise Flaim
#4. I hate your stupid stories." The old woman smiled at him toothlessly.
"My stories? No, my little lord, not mine. The stories are, before me and after me, before you too.
George R R Martin
#5. Not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours.
A.R. Ammons
#6. I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.
Michael Phelps
#7. We all have our handicaps. You're not mine.
Kelly Moran
#8. I want to mate with you more than my next breath, but I need you to be sure." His eyes were human again as he continued. "Dragon matings are for life. I... don't ever want you to regret mating with me. Even if every second that you are not mine is torture.
Katie Reus
#9. Uh, no! This is your dreamy stalker moment, not mine. You do it.
Chanda Hahn
#10. But that's her problem, not mine. No, my problem is elephantine. How do you eat an elephant, sir? Bit by tiny bit.
Sally Gardner
#11. In a world where we are accustomed to rivalries over possession, authority, and borders, and people clashing over the issue, "Ours," or "Mine, not yours," it is rather strange to find two people debating whose the kingdom is not, and asserting: "Yours, not mine.
R.K. Narayan
#12. I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
Colm Toibin
#13. I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
Alexander McQueen
#14. That's right. I'm scared to death. You said it's your first time, feeling chest pain, and nausea. Well it's not mine. I've felt that before, and I know how crazy hot it boils, and how dangerous it is. And I know myself. I'm a Yang Eun-nem-bi, so I boil faster, and hotter, than everyone else.
Cheon Eunbi
#15. Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
Horatius Bonar
#16. Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.
Ronald Perelman
#17. We read to know we are not alone (obviously not mine but good)
C.S. Lewis
#18. When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not mean I do not love them, because I do, with all my heart, it simply means that the meaning they produce is not sufficient to fulfill a whole life. Not mine, at any rate.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#19. No one can teach you anything, not at the core, at the source of it. What you're doing - it's yours, not mine, I can only teach you to do it better. I can give you the means, but the aim - the aim's your own.
Anonymous
#20. People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.
Dolly Parton
#21. My dreams were welcome; they were what felt real to me, and to wake in a world where Abby was not mine was the dream, the true nightmare.
Ashlan Thomas
#22. Yes we do. If I don't have you soon, I'm going to implode. Can't you see that? I want you to be with me. I can't stand all these guys coming on to you. The fact that I'm not allowed to do a God damn thing about it because you're not mine is killing me."--Noel
Michelle A. Valentine
#23. I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was exactly the right word to describe it. It was John's life that was over, not mine.
Elizabeth Berg
#24. The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.
John Dryden
#25. I love you because you are not mine, because you are from the other side, from there where you invite me to jump and I cannot make the jump, because in the deepest moment of possession you are not in me, I cannot reach you, I cannot get beyond your body ...
Julio Cortazar
#26. There were many reasons why I chose to stay silent about my past for so long, mostly fear and shame. Now im older and wiser.Now I understand that I should never have to live in fear of another human being, and if I do, that's their shame, not mine.
Gabriella Gillespie
#27. I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
Kate Walsh
#28. People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own skin - I know who I am.
Lily Cole
#29. Some call me nature, others call me Mother Nature. ... How you choose to live each day, whether you regard me or disregard me, doesn't really matter to me. One way or other, your actions will determine your fate, not mine. I am nature. I will go on. I am prepared to evolve. Are you?
Conservation International
#30. Life is a bunch of 'universal truths', not mine, not anyone else's ...but which exist as a fact..until we 'crack' them for ourselves as 'truths'!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#31. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#32. He had to think he was Michael Wayland's son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed a debt to, not me. It was on Michael's account that they loved him, not mine."
"Maybe they loved him on his own account," said Clary.
Cassandra Clare
#33. With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.
Kingsley Amis
#35. There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.
Dara Horn
#36. You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)
Anne Lamott
#37. For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of "Is your novel an open work or not?" How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or "With which of your characters do you identify?" For God's sake, with whom does an author identify? With the adverbs, obviously.
Umberto Eco
#38. I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Charles Dickens
#39. I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine.
W. H. Auden
#40. For a moment I wondered if I were not going to
love humanity. But, after all, it was their Sunday, not mine.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#41. Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking it still might be?
Amy Tan
#42. The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.
Paul Stanley
#43. I believe in fate and what's meant to be mine will be mine, and if it's not in my lap, then it's not mine.
Cameron Diaz
#44. Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Mason Cooley
#45. C. S. Lewis, when he wrote of his wife, We both knew this: I had my miseries, not hers; she had hers, not mine.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#46. Ivy still had her tree up in the living room, and we exchanged presents when we felt like it, not on a specific date. Usually that was about an hour after I got back from shopping. Delayed gratification was Ivy's thing, not mine.
Kim Harrison
#47. We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z
Max Brooks
#48. I was a man seeking power. For good reasons, maybe. But I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else about my actions. If I killed him, I would be taking a life, something that was not mine to take. I would be committing deliberate, calculated murder.
Jim Butcher
#49. I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
Claudia Schiffer
#50. You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.
Janny Wurts
#51. To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.
Carter Heyward
#52. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.
Frederick Douglass
#53. I stepped inside. It smelled like cleaning fluid and salt: sanitized tears. Not mine, I thought. "You
Kerry Kletter
#54. She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.
Erica Jong
#55. I am not mine.
You are not yours.
No one can be his own.
I am not yours.
You are not mine.
No one can belong to another.
Werner Bergengruen
#56. To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God's gift by which he gives being to me, and he indeed gives to all, gives being to all. (p. 271)
Soren Kierkegaard
#58. If you force me to pay a debt that is not mine, let me thank you in the afterlife
Miguel El Portugues
#59. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.
Steve Lonegan
#60. I am not sorry that i kissed you, I am only sorry that i kissed you when you were not mine to kiss!
Kandi Steiner
#61. I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.
Jacques Verges
#62. Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar
Jim Elliot
#63. everything we knew, everything we felt!' 'Not quite everything,' he said, touching her cheek. 'I'm Jason to you, Bourne to me, because that's the name I was given, and have to use it because I don't have any other. But it's not mine.
Robert Ludlum
#64. As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator. - Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#65. I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.
Suzanne Collins
#66. Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.
Henri Nouwen
#67. If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.
Jose Mourinho
#68. Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
Helmut Newton
#69. My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it's for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won't ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.
Rabindranath Tagore
#72. All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.
Robert Fulghum
#73. If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine.
William Meikle
#74. This is your world, kid. Not mine. You know I don't belong here."
"You once told me you loved it down south."
"I was talking about anal sex."
"Of course you were.
Tiffany Reisz
#75. The time is gone when mere accidents could still happen to me; and what could still come to me now that was not mine already? What returns, what finally comes home to me, is my own self and what of myself has long been in strange lands and scattered among all things and accidents.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. If people wanted to talk to me from a million miles away, that was their problem, not mine.
Seanan McGuire
#77. The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.
James Lipton
#78. To think that he left me because he met the one." "Why does that make you feel better?" I cannot possibly conceive of how that could make her feel better. "Because if I'm not his soul mate, then that means he's not mine. There's someone else out there for me. If he found his, maybe I'll find my own.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#79. The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.
Philip Zimbardo
#80. The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. I let you go, Harold, because you were not mine and you never would be. You belonged to your wife.
Rachel Joyce
#83. Forever resent this body is not mine,
when do we forget calculating to thrive? (Su Shih)
Sung Yee Poon
#84. I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
Gordon Getty
#85. It was the way he looked at me when he climbed on top of me that excited me the most. The look of pure dominance that told me that this was going to go his way and not mine made me so eager for it that I pulled him down gruffly toward me and kissed him deeply.
Yolanda Olson
#86. I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.
Cassandra Clare
#87. There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.
Al Lewis
#88. FYI I am well aware that you are married.
That does not mean that you are not mine.
Jade Reyner
#89. Show so clearly that this matter is God's work, not mine.
Mary Potter
#90. Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality
Brenda Perlin
#91. Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.
Isabel Allende
#92. I'm not going to touch her," he said "She's not mine.She never will be."
"Indeed." Bruiser rolled his eyes and dusted off his hat. "Definitely no years of pent-up lusting there. Glad we have that sorted.
Tessa Dare
#94. Begging ocean please, help me drown these memories. All I need to hear is that you're not mine,you're not mine.
Tegan Quin
#95. I' with 'my' is known as the embodied Soul [Jivatma]. 'I am' and 'All this is mine' is the state of an embodied Soul [Jivatma]. And 'I indeed am' and 'All this is not mine', is the state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!!!
Dada Bhagwan
#96. I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.
Wesley Snipes
#97. So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.
Marcus Aurelius
#98. A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to study, to work, to rest, eat, or do a service to my fellowman- can some external circumstance "get in the way," and then I am grieved.
Tito Colliander
#99. I sheathed my blade and glared at him. "And here I almost thought you weren't a complete bastard."
"Well, that's your mistake, not mine.
Julie Kagawa
#100. I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
Oswald Chambers
