Top 100 Not Necessarily Quotes

#1. The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the "decline" of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new neighborhood and have not learned how to get along with the new neighbors.

Diana Butler Bass

Not Necessarily Quotes #466
#2. I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

Werner Klemperer

Not Necessarily Quotes #1563
#3. The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live.

Alexandra Fuller

Not Necessarily Quotes #2058
#4. A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

Susanne Bier

Not Necessarily Quotes #3870
#5. I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

Andy Andrews

Not Necessarily Quotes #5604
#6. But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.

Wendell Berry

Not Necessarily Quotes #7970
#7. Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.

Hans Selye

Not Necessarily Quotes #8437
#8. When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.

Harold Evans

Not Necessarily Quotes #8941
#9. I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

John E. Jones III

Not Necessarily Quotes #8944
#10. Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick.

Victor J. Banis

Not Necessarily Quotes #9208
#11. Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

Mark Spitz

Not Necessarily Quotes #10440
#12. The love we deserve is not necessarily the love we accept...

Steven Aitchison

Not Necessarily Quotes #10875
#13. Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention ...

Peter McWilliams

Not Necessarily Quotes #11186
#14. I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if it's about me. I just don't need to hear extra garbage.

Laura Vandervoort

Not Necessarily Quotes #11233
#15. Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.

Rita Ora

Not Necessarily Quotes #12000
#16. To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

George Orwell

Not Necessarily Quotes #12847
#17. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Judith Butler

Not Necessarily Quotes #13903
#18. If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - Well, I'm going to write about a thing.

Charlie Daniels

Not Necessarily Quotes #18767
#19. What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

Marc E. Platt

Not Necessarily Quotes #21383
#20. Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

Chris Cain

Not Necessarily Quotes #21996
#21. Get some rest. Kalr will bring supper to your quarters. Things will seem better after you've eaten and slept." "Really?" she asked. Bitter and challenging. "Well, not necessarily," I admitted. "But it's easier to deal with things when you've had some rest and some breakfast.

Ann Leckie

Not Necessarily Quotes #22074
#22. The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

Jean Piaget

Not Necessarily Quotes #23253
#23. I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

Sam Hunt

Not Necessarily Quotes #23902
#24. Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Not Necessarily Quotes #23929
#25. It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Not Necessarily Quotes #24358
#26. I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

Kat Edmonson

Not Necessarily Quotes #26172
#27. To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Woodrow Wilson

Not Necessarily Quotes #26297
#28. I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.

Ryan Gander

Not Necessarily Quotes #26443
#29. A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

George Bernard Shaw

Not Necessarily Quotes #32091
#30. If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Roger A. Caras

Not Necessarily Quotes #40498
#31. The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.

Victor Pelevin

Not Necessarily Quotes #41582
#32. 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

Not Necessarily Quotes #41900
#33. Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Not Necessarily Quotes #43027
#34. It's often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it's a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge, otherwise I would be stalking Oprah right now, begging for a transfusion.

Renee Carlino

Not Necessarily Quotes #43319
#35. A hibernating snail doe not necessarily mean it is dead

Messaoud Mohammed

Not Necessarily Quotes #43417
#36. The fact of the matter is that the world does not care about you or me, our hopes, our desires, or our dreams. And, the world of dreams, hopes, and desires that is constructed between our ears it is not necessarily a reflection of what is actually going on around us.

Miyamoto Musashi

Not Necessarily Quotes #46901
#37. If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false.

Ron Brackin

Not Necessarily Quotes #46924
#38. When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

Ingmar Bergman

Not Necessarily Quotes #47437
#39. I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

Fred Durst

Not Necessarily Quotes #49033
#40. But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

Donna Tartt

Not Necessarily Quotes #50092
#41. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

Sarah Jio

Not Necessarily Quotes #50115
#42. I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

Mika.

Not Necessarily Quotes #51356
#43. What is given by nature is not necessarily good, what is achieved by artifice is not necessarily worthless.

John Armstrong

Not Necessarily Quotes #52038
#44. No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Not Necessarily Quotes #53447
#45. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge

Not Necessarily Quotes #54608
#46. The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.

Frederick Lenz

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#47. What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Tom Riley

Not Necessarily Quotes #56461
#48. The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.

John Hagee

Not Necessarily Quotes #56918
#49. When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.

Gwen Ifill

Not Necessarily Quotes #58127
#50. The virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Pamela Frankau

Not Necessarily Quotes #58753
#51. That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.

Kurt Wagner

Not Necessarily Quotes #60292
#52. I've always been a big proponent of point of view in cinema. Not necessarily that the point of view has to be subjective, but that in all great films the point of view has been taken into account and established.

John Hyams

Not Necessarily Quotes #62078
#53. Social intelligence is a function of culture. In other words, the behaviours and characteristics one culture considers socially intelligent are not necessarily deemed socially intelligent by another. (Dong, Koper & Collaco 2008, 165). Social intelligence is something that we learn

Anonymous

Not Necessarily Quotes #65835
#54. Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

Mallory Ortberg

Not Necessarily Quotes #69242
#55. Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Bliss Perry

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#56. Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Philip K. Dick

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#57. I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.

Jeremy Grantham

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#58. For the gay and lesbian community, even though I'm not gay I think its really important to speak out for people that aren't necessarily dealing with the same circumstances you're dealing with and don't have the benefit of the health care system or the government that you do.

Chelsea Handler

Not Necessarily Quotes #77833
#59. It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

Mike McCready

Not Necessarily Quotes #79045
#60. People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Not Necessarily Quotes #79189
#61. the resilience they had both displayed, the same stubborn strength that had lifted them out of bad circumstances. Except in Auma I had also sensed a willingness to put the past behind her, a capacity to somehow forgive, if not necessarily forget.

Barack Obama

Not Necessarily Quotes #80981
#62. Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it begins to simply reward those who reproduce the most and leave the intelligent to become an endangered species.

Mike Judge

Not Necessarily Quotes #84046
#63. It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

Haruki Murakami

Not Necessarily Quotes #84619
#64. I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

Marietta Holley

Not Necessarily Quotes #85614
#65. The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.

Edgar Degas

Not Necessarily Quotes #88218
#66. What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

Susan Cain

Not Necessarily Quotes #88637
#67. A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.

Charles Kennedy

Not Necessarily Quotes #89108
#68. Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism

Wendy Doniger

Not Necessarily Quotes #90835
#69. You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

Henry James

Not Necessarily Quotes #91795
#70. I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.

Jenny Lewis

Not Necessarily Quotes #92877
#71. I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy.

Martha MacIsaac

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#72. Increasing complexity on its own is not, however, the ultimate goal or end-product of these evolutionary processes. Evolution results in better answers, not necessarily more complicated ones. Sometimes a superior solution is a simpler one.

Ray Kurzweil

Not Necessarily Quotes #94643
#73. In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

Bonnie McKee

Not Necessarily Quotes #97658
#74. Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

Darren Boyd

Not Necessarily Quotes #99212
#75. Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness ... Living consciously is living responsibly toward reality. We do not necessarily have to like what we see but we recognize that wishes or fears or denials do not alter facts.

Nathaniel Branden

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#76. The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.

Arundhati Roy

Not Necessarily Quotes #103260
#77. It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Michel Gondry

Not Necessarily Quotes #103716
#78. If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.

Alec Baldwin

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#79. Babies, babies, babies! They're everywhere, aren't they? In our eyes, in our thoughts, in our arms, in our dreams. Sometimes, in our dreams, they are riding alpacas or juggling tacos - but that doesn't mean those dreams are necessarily about babies. Look, I'm not Freud.

Julie Klausner

Not Necessarily Quotes #104167
#80. You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.

Steve Carell

Not Necessarily Quotes #107433
#81. Don't feel sorry for me, now. It was for science, and as long as something is for science, it's worth doing. It's just not necessarily worth repeating.

Mira Grant

Not Necessarily Quotes #107591
#82. I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

Mika.

Not Necessarily Quotes #108463
#83. Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

George Bernard Shaw

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#84. since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.

Erich Fromm

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#85. Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it's not necessarily everyone's place to come to Australia.

Tony Abbott

Not Necessarily Quotes #113753
#86. Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.

Will Schwalbe

Not Necessarily Quotes #114120
#87. Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits - bits.

George Dyson

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#88. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

Louise J. Kaplan

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#89. History is not necessarily what happened but what is recorded.

Debbie Terranova

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#90. I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Jesse Ventura

Not Necessarily Quotes #120310
#91. I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

Brad Pitt

Not Necessarily Quotes #120354
#92. Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#93. Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Not Necessarily Quotes #121394
#94. Know this: God's delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

Greg Laurie

Not Necessarily Quotes #123077
#95. The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes to the rejected elements of existence, art may lead us to a more complete and less artificial celebration of the world.

William Barrett

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

J.I. Packer

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#97. An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Andre Gide

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#98. The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

Greg Lynn

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#99. Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Sean Lennon

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#100. I love to get involved with projects that take me out of my comfort zone. I try to do things that are not necessarily what I'm used to. I always wanted to do a big animation movie and stick to the codes that this genre sometimes implies.

Gustavo Santaolalla

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