Top 100 Not That Quotes
#1. The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.
Jedediah Purdy
#2. It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.
Robert Breault
#3. I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
Avicii
#4. A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
Mary Schmich
#5. I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.
Evan Parker
#6. I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
Paloma Faith
#7. It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
Edwin Land
#8. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
William Shakespeare
#9. The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.
Charles Reznikoff
#10. When the Bible says "Judge not that ye be not judged," it means that if you judge the reality of others you will be unable to avoid judging your own.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#11. It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#12. Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#13. It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .
Cesare Pavese
#14. It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.
Joanne Froggatt
#15. It's not that I have a way with words; it's that I have no way without them.
Tony Tulathimutte
#16. From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.
Aasif Mandvi
#17. It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day ...
James A. Murphy
#18. It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.
Mark Victor Hansen
#19. Life is never that simple. And the fact that it's not that simple to you means only one thing: You're still alive.
Carrie Ryan
#20. Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
Joe Torre
#21. It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.'
Mike Birbiglia
#22. I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.
Sloane Crosley
#23. Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.
Billy Beane
#24. You know, Gray. Don't be your Daddy. Be smart. Find a nice girl to take home to your Gran. You know I'm not that.
Kristen Ashley
#25. I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
Leo Burnett
#26. Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away
ere life hath lost its brightness?
Lady Flora Hastings
#27. We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.
Jeff Bezos
#28. The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am. And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.
Megan Fox
#30. Kiddo," Jenn repeated. "Why do you always call her that? She's not that young.
Karina Halle
#31. Not that far away, Ms. Fate, the Nightside's very own leather-costumed transvestite superheroine, was dancing on a tabletop with demon girl reporter Bettie Divine.
Simon R. Green
#32. You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using
this as an excuse to make out with me?"
"I'm not that clever, Eric."
"I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile.
Charlaine Harris
#33. When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.
Philipp Meyer
#34. Humanity is not that difficult to understand; it is inhumanity that I cannot decipher.
John Kramer
#35. The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
H.L. Mencken
#36. Weep not that the world changes -did it keep a stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
William Cullen Bryant
#37. Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
Aimee Bender
#38. To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.
Aristotle.
#39. You have a certain charm, believe it or not. That, and you feed me.
Abria Mattina
#40. Hmmm, I bet you'd be really cute with hornays. Not that you're not cute right now, but you're a bit young. You're only what? Four in human years? Oh wait, that's wrong, isn't it? You ninety? (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#41. Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
#42. I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.
Alberto Gonzales
#43. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis
#44. for too easily we come to love love first and not...that from which it comes.
Alexander Theroux
#45. It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.
Henry Harrower
#46. Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.
Angry Zodd
#47. To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?
Charles Spurgeon
#48. Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.
Don Kardong
#49. If Dulles could use a person, that person was somehow real for him. If not, that person didn't exist.
David Talbot
#50. The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.
Chris Daughtry
#51. Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his own company.
Umberto Eco
#52. Eve followed him into the building. No one would dare frisk her, and she entered Beckett's inner sanctum fully armed - not that she needed her weapons.
Debra Anastasia
#53. I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
Lana Wood
#54. The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#55. I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.
Brett Dennen
#56. 14) Ladies, if a guy leaves you a voice mail that says 'I had a good time with you' what he REALLY means is 'I had a good time with you.' Ladies, please stop searching for secret meanings in what we say. We're men; we're not that clever.
Nelson Chereta
#57. I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai Lama
#58. When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."
Walter Martin
#59. We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.
David Hume
#60. In ACT, whether a thought is true is not that important. Far more important is whether it's helpful.
Russ Harris
#61. We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
Robert Wyatt
#62. I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.
Noah Hawley
#63. It's not that I didn't want to - more than anything I did - but the idea of kissing her two feet from a box of obsessively well-preserved love letters from my grandfather made me feel weird and nervous.
Ransom Riggs
#64. Most people do not know themselves. The real you is not that person you are when times are great, the real you shows when everything goes wrong. Can you hold on, can you keep pushing or do you quit?
Ian Warner
#65. The farmhouse itself no longer looked like a beast about to spring. (Not that it ever had, to her, for she was not in the habit of thinking that things looked exactly like other things which were as different from them in appearance as it was possible to be.)
Stella Gibbons
#66. Nooo. Absolutely posifreakingtively not! "That's
Amanda Torrey
#67. I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
Ernest Hemingway,
#68. This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me ... and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.
T.F. Hodge
#69. After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
Anna Quindlen
#70. One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.
Michel Templet
#71. Sometimes it's not that two people aren't right for each other, its more like the timing wasn't right.
Jasmine V
#72. The ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
buoys,
advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
dropped things are bound to sink
in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
consciousness.
Marianne Moore
#73. It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.
Thomas Cole
#74. When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.
Marci Shimoff
#75. I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
Daniel Woodrell
#76. It's not that nothing else is possible, but nothing else was nurtured.
Ransom Riggs
#77. Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
Scott Westerfeld
#78. If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.
Frederick Lenz
#79. I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.
Julie Delpy
#80. Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
Roy Lichtenstein
#81. And it's not that she tells him it didn't happen, it's that by the time he asks, she no longer has a language of her own. But that's enough. It always is.
Courtney Summers
#82. In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.
Sheena Iyengar
#83. I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.
Heidi Klum
#84. In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.
Tim Harford
#85. Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#86. Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.
Max Lucado
#87. When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as we might find all the lights of the sea in the water of a jewel? And what is a philosophic thought but such an epitome?
George Santayana
#88. Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
James Nicoll
#90. She knew nothing.
Not that she might have died that day.
Not that the person walking with her on that path in the woods was a murderer.
Otsuichi
#91. It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
Gary Keller
#92. Well, ye're kind, too," he said, considering. "Verra kind. Though ye are inclined to do it on your own terms. Not that that's bad, mind," he added,
Diana Gabaldon
#93. We certainly have to improve on our performances especially up front. It's not that the strikers are not in form, as all four of them are; they just have to be more accurate.
Roberto Mancini
#94. The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.
Clive James
#95. It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.
Ayn Rand
#96. If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
Zac Efron
#97. ... Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, it showed as clearly. Kindnesses, accomplishments, all those were present, too.
Richard Matheson
#98. There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.
Wayne Rogers
#99. The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.
Emily Giffin
#100. Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.
Rudolf Steiner
