Not Necessarily In That Order Quotes

#1. So far, I've only discovered four things that make life worth living for me. My work is one of them." "What are the other three?" Jacob wanted to know. "Music, books, and sex," I said. "Not necessarily in that order." His eyebrows

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#2. My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#3. If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

Penn Jillette

#4. My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.

Ashwin Sanghi

#5. Where are you going? (Nykyrian)
To get a drink and kill Cruel ... not necessarily in that order. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.

John Varley

#7. I am the man who is going to collect your soul and fuck your woman. Not necessarily in that order, but both will involve screaming.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#8. A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Jean-Luc Godard

#9. He woke with Max's arms wrapped around his torso and Max's genitals soft against his ass. And for the first time in days he wasn't aware of wanting anything but breakfast. Breakfast and Max. Not necessarily in that order.

Josh Lanyon

#10. A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

Bud Grant

#11. You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Mike Huckabee

#12. The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.'

Carol Burnett

#13. And it's not my fault that I have a penchant for good breeding, reasonable intelligence, and passable personal hygiene, not necessarily in that order.

Kami Garcia

#14. My body's reaction is irritating. Maybe this will stop if I fetter, fuck, and flog her ... and not necessarily in that order. Yeah. That's what I need.

E.L. James

#15. Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.

Tim Burton

#16. Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.

Frederick Reines

#17. The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

Pope John XXIII

#18. That by the decrees and volitions, and consequently the providence of God, Scripture (as I will prove by Scriptural examples) means nothing but Nature's order following necessarily from her eternal laws.

Baruch Spinoza

#19. I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Eric Morecambe

#20. I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

Brian Eno

#21. Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

Henry Petroski

#22. We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#23. An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

Nancy Pearcey

#24. It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

Martin Van Creveld

#25. Everything that is online is not necessarily in line.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#26. It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Jacob Bigelow

#27. Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more...

Selena Rezvani

#28. You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

Michelle Rhee

#29. The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

Janet McTeer

#30. A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.

James Hutton

#31. 'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By 'Revolution' we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change.

Bhagat Singh

#32. Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Douglas Adams

#33. Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

Douglas Adams

#34. It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.

David Byrne

#35. This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin ... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

Thomas Hobbes

#36. Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.

Benjamin Carson

#37. The political criminal is the victim of an attempt of a more or less despotic government to preserve its own stability. He is not necessarily guilty of an unsocial offense; he simply tries to overturn a certain political order which may itself be anti-social.

Emma Goldman

#38. Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

J.I. Packer

#39. Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid.

Elena Kagan