Top 100 Not Of Quotes
#1. Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
Alain De Botton
#2. She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
Elizabeth Montagu
#3. Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.
Mark Twain
#4. A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
Mark Caine
#6. When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.
Dean Jackson
#7. And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.
Jennifer Egan
#8. The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.
Julian Barnes
#9. Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
Hannah Arendt
#10. Love knows not of death nor calculus above the simple sum of heart plus heart.
Sylvia Plath
#11. Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.
Mark Kingwell
#12. I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.
Jil Sander
#13. But of those whom He has chosen, whom He has purchased to Himself, He says what He says not of others - "my people." In
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#15. The giants of the intellect, whom you admire so much, once taught you that the earth was flat and that the atom was the smallest particle of matter. The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies, not of achievements.
Ayn Rand
#16. That my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not - of
Booker T. Washington
#17. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.
Thomas Huxley
#19. If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.
Charles Spurgeon
#20. Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
Ellen Glasgow
#21. My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following
Rajneesh
#22. Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
George MacDonald
#24. If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
Jean Cocteau
#26. Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille
#28. I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.
Shashi Tharoor
#29. Wikipedia [ ... ] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
Clay Shirky
#30. Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.
Henry Van De Velde
#31. All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify
Erving Goffman
#32. Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.
Charles Mackay
#33. Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
C.V. Wedgwood
#34. The Way is in training ... Do nothing which is not of value.
Miyamoto Musashi
#35. Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#36. I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.
Stewart O'Nan
#37. There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all
Nathaniel Branden
#38. We die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
Amin Maalouf
#39. I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
Lyman Abbott
#40. But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.
Ding Ling
#41. If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
Elliot Richardson
#42. Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#43. The true Renaissance person is endowed with panoramic attention.... The habit of noticing the ensemble of everything and its constituent parts is a matter of will, not of innate aptitude. It involves the conscious noticing of things and the gaps that separate and connect them.
Christy Wampole
#44. your experience of conflict or peace is the result of your choice of thought system and not of what seems to be happening to the personal self.
Elizabeth Cronkhite
#45. Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.
Richard Allen
#46. The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.
James Ellis
#47. I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.
George Shearing
#48. The reviewer's view knew not of the true part of the writer's view, so good or bad, do not brew, and let them through to another part of you.
Mark Donnelly
#49. Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do. Not of I wanted to save lives.
Keri Arthur
#50. Your best isn't your best
until you succeed.
But it's not of yourself
that you will succeed,
but of God, Who's in yourself,
Who cannot fail.
Calvin W. Allison
#51. My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no heroic history to offer. There is no difficulty not of my own making.
Sebastian Barry
#52. EPH2.8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: EPH2.9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Anonymous
#53. Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by their innate talent and drive.
Chris Hayes
#54. The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
Charles Nicolle
#55. Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
#56. I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
Daniel Keyes
#57. Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely ... but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.
John Calvin
#59. The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.
Raheel Farooq
#61. Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!
Charles Spurgeon
#62. This was not, of course, the first time that significant monies were spent on military programs. Kennedy knew, if only implicitly, that while bravery may win battles, science and technology provide security. Science and technology win wars.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#63. The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes, goals, and hopes of its victims - swallowed by the sea of greed.
John-Talmage Mathis
#64. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
H.L. Mencken
#65. Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.
Lee Smolin
#66. In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
Eric Ambler
#67. The wizards were good at wind, weather being a matter not of force but of lepidoptery. As Archchancellor Ridcully said, you just had to know where the damn butterflies were.
Terry Pratchett
#68. Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
Seneca The Younger
#69. One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
Thomas More
#71. The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.
J.D. Stroube
#72. A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
T.E. Lawrence
#73. I am afraid. Not of live, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if it had never been.
Daniel Keyes
#74. Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt
#75. Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
Friedrich Engels
#76. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
Paul Harris
#78. The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
Ezra Pound
#79. It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.
Lysander Spooner
#80. Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
John Fowles
#81. All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test - if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#82. And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
#83. [She] knows that it's fear that keeps her love in check. but what if falling in love i a sign not of weakness but of courage? what if it isnt falling or crashing but taking a leap?
Julianna Baggott
#84. In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.
Alphonsus Liguori
#85. When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"
Condola Rashad
#86. Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.
Blaise Pascal
#87. The body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the body against itself but of the will against the body. Yet here I beheld a body that was going to die rather than change its nature.
J.M. Coetzee
#88. The marks of wise men - adherence to acts, worrying not of any praise be,
Rejection of what is blameable; in faith and reverence submerged absolutely.
[19] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#89. Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.
Erin Morgenstern
#91. Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
Virchand Gandhi
#92. Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing," said the minister, softly. "That's why we need to adapt. It's never too late to change direction.
Louise Penny
#93. The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.
Loren Eiseley
#95. Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.
Archibald Cox
#96. A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.
E. M. Forster
#97. Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.
John Burnside
#98. Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long since betrayed the Master. When they meet someone of the Underground Church, a martyr, they look at him strangely.
Richard Wurmbrand
#99. For all sins, as theologians weary not of reminding us, are sins of disobedience. When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell.
Oscar Wilde
#100. Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.
Blaise Pascal
