Top 100 Not On Quotes
#1. The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.
Jerry Fodor
#2. Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
Epictetus
#3. It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.
John Wooden
#4. A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.
Catherine Marshall
#5. The miracle of Christmas is not on 34th street; it's in Bethlehem.
Rick Warren
#6. Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.
Stephanie Mills
#7. You are amazed at all the things you know which are not on the examination paper.
Helen Keller
#8. Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.
Pico Iyer
#9. We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge
George Will
#10. Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#11. If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
Jonathan Dee
#12. We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
Henry Ward Beecher
#13. If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
Dick Butkus
#14. Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.
Saadi
#15. When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
G-Eazy
#17. One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett
#18. I sleep - laying down, not on the ceiling. Nothing about my life is crazy. I fly a lot, I travel a lot. I eat and sleep like everyone else.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
#19. Lotto [10w]
If lotto winners squander their winnings,
why not on me?
Beryl Dov
#20. The ultimate success of a life depends on character and not on achievement.
Debasish Mridha
#21. 'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.
Mithun Chakraborty
#22. A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.
Maria Montessori
#23. ... the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author's emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone's benefitting.
Eliot Schrefer
#24. The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on there motivation and their connectedness with the real world.
Leonard Sax
#25. Beth's not on that train?"
"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.
J.R. Ward
#26. Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment.
C. JoyBell C.
#27. The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.
Dean Cavanagh
#28. The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!
Ashwin Sanghi
#29. Medication, surgery, and medical tests are all focused on disease, not on health. Prevention is the act of moving away from the disease. Proactivity in health is seeking a high level of wellness and acting in a way that will create that reality in your life.
Rand Olson
#30. If we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#31. Historically inaccurate.' Adrian gestured at me with his other hand, the one not on my shoulder. Who the hell looks at you and says 'historically inaccurate'?
Richelle Mead
#32. I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.
Sasha Cohen
#33. Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.
Taryn Manning
#34. I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
Tao Lin
#35. Judgment falls not on the unacceptable but only on those who will not accept acceptance
Robert Farrar Capon
#36. Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
Ben Jonson
#37. I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
Mark Twain
#38. The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.
James Callaghan
#39. Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
Rachel Kushner
#40. Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
Abbas Kiarostami
#41. If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.
Mickey Gilley
#43. Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
John Clayton
#44. thoughts and dreams. Surely my mother, as we kneaded the dough for our bread and placed it in tins, must realise that my thoughts were not on the spongy dough but on the silhouette of McPhail
Kate Mildenhall
#45. Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet.
Vint Cerf
#46. Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.
Gautama Buddha
#47. When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.
Oscar Wilde
#48. I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.
Andy Stanley
#49. I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly complete, the puzzle. And when they're finished they can look at the picture that they've managed to piece together and decide whether they like it or not. On their own time. Let them discover you.
Carrie Fisher
#50. There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell
#51. The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around.
He is convinced that these would befall only to others and not on to him.
Gian Kumar
#52. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#53. History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
Lord Acton
#54. I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
Bianca Jagger
#55. You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.
Edmund Burke
#56. So, you play today! You don't worry about what's gone, 'cause that's already gone and you can't bring what's gone back. It doesn't happen that way. So, every day's a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope.
Anita O'Day
#57. Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
Vance Havner
#58. The wounds were not on the surface, nor detectable by stethoscope.
Eric Lomax
#59. This sense of alarm about the impact of speech not on yourself but on others is called the third person effect.
David McRaney
#60. My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own her glasses were filthy
John Hegley
#61. Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.
Bill Whittle
#62. It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.
Ally Sheedy
#63. The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.
Mira Kirshenbaum
#64. You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.
Esther Hicks
#65. Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed - or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.
Patricia Briggs
#66. It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.
Zoltan Istvan
#67. I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.
Chuck Palahniuk
#68. When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
Walter Kaufmann
#69. I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.
Anderson Cooper
#70. It is easy to kill with a bow, girl. How easy it is to release the bowstring and think, it is not I, it is the arrow. The blood of that boy is not on my hands. The arrow killed him, not I. But the arrow does not dream anything in the night.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#71. Willows produce the defensive compound salicylic acid, which works in much the same way. But not on us. Salicylic acid, is a precursor of aspirin, and tea made from willow bark can relieve headaches and bring down fevers. Such defense mechanisms, of course, take time.
Peter Wohlleben
#72. Focus your energy on the fragrance and beauty of the petals not on the thorns.
Amit Ray
#73. My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Philip Emeagwali
#74. I use the default iOS calendar app. I've tried others, but it's my favorite, and I can't live without it. If it's not on my calendar, I'm not aware of it, whatever it is.
Steve Huffman
#75. Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
Freya Stark
#76. Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'
George Whitefield
#77. Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#78. Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.
Dan Jenkins
#80. I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.
Victoria Holt
#82. I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter
#83. I would let you hold him," Jane said, "but I'm pretty sure letting-ghosts-hold-my-baby is not on Abby's approved list of things to accomplish in life.
Allie Burke
#84. You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
T. S. Eliot
#85. We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself ... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#86. And somehow I had always resisted driving very slowly back and forth in front of his house. Willpower? No. I figured his front gate was equipped with security cameras and I would just be embarrassing myself. And this street was definitely not on the bus line.
Jennifer Echols
#87. The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and the Guru knows who he is.
Anandmurti Gurumaa
#88. They could hurt you," I insisted.
"Not on purpose. They're just teenagers. We'll be like that too one day.
Joshua Gaylord
#89. There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
Al-Shafi'i
#90. Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget
#91. I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'
Joel Kinnaman
#92. I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
Milton Friedman
#93. Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
Horace
#94. Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
John Lubbock
#95. The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
Iqbal Quadir
#96. 'Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.
Sean Paul
#97. If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.
Alan Cohen
#98. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
Alexander Pope
#99. Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it
Soren Kierkegaard
#100. The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
