Top 100 Not When Quotes
#1. Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.
Michelle Obama
#2. My anger and sadness was my ocean, and I couldn't carry it. Not anymore. No one could really love me. Not when they could love somebody else instead.
Heidi Cullinan
#3. Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. "Ladies? After you."
"Rude," Claire said.
"I was being polite!"
"Not when you have a flamethrower.
Rachel Caine
#4. Men don't want candy that's been unwrapped. Maybe for a lark, but not when it comes to marriage. It may still be perfectly clean, but if it's unwrapped, they don't know where it's been.
Laura Moriarty
#5. Real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.
Cameron Conaway
#6. She was not taking up that subject with Ted. Not when she'd spent part of the time fighting a fantasy about hitting the sheets and the other part thinking about strangling him with them.
HelenKay Dimon
#7. A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer
#8. No one blames her."
"That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.
Cassandra Clare
#9. It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier ... and we still want it ... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.
Louise L. Hay
#10. Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them ... the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.
Billy Graham
#11. You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.
Robert Redford
#12. Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Marilyn Monroe
#13. It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
Henry Ward Beecher
#14. No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn't a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn't plan to die young. Death is so boring.
Sofea Shah
#15. The Law is used un-lawfully, not when presented as the rule of the believer's life, but when it is opposed to Christ!
Arthur W. Pink
#16. When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.
Daniel Goleman
#17. Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.
Donna Lynn Hope
#18. I don't need to believe in the supernatural, not when there's worse that roams the night.
Sabaa Tahir
#19. Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.
Craig Groeschel
#20. The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
#21. After years of knowing her, a woman's beauty shouldn't be able to reach straight into a man's chest and squeeze the breath out of him. Especially not when he could never have her.
Brent Weeks
#22. Perfection is the absolute right word. And you could never ruin it," she said in a low, calm voice. "Not when it was perfect because of you.
Laura Kaye
#23. A visit always brings pleasure-- if not when it begins, then when it ends. (Quoted from another book)
Emmanuel Carrere
#24. We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price
but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how.
Bill Maher
#25. Words aren't needed - not when our bodies are screaming at each other.
Anonymous
#26. I smile because I listen to the OTHER and I believe the OTHER. I am a marionette pulled by the unskilled fingers, pulled apart, inharmoniously dislocated, one arm dead, the other rhapsodising in mid-air. I laugh, not when it fits into my talk, but when it fits into the undercurrents of my talk.
Anais Nin
#27. You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong.
Neale Donald Walsch
#28. For true love comes when it will, not when it is called.
Cameron Dokey
#29. They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now.
Dorothy Hamill
#30. You can't say your wish out loud. Not when you look up at the stars. If you do, it won't come true. And I can't ... I can't allow that to happen to you. He watched me. I watched him back.
T.J. Klune
#31. That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.
Alexandra Adornetto
#32. I believe people are more inclined to do their best, not when they feel loved, but when they feel loved regardless.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. You can't apologize for my feelings and expect things to be better." He paused. "Especially not when you're the reason for them.
Julie Murphy
#34. When someone needs help, that's the time to help. Not the next day. Not when it's safe.
Linda Lovelace
#35. Did you remember my tennis-themed Halloween party this weekend?
Yes. Not really, no. Where is it again?
My house. Well, my dad's house. Should I feel bad for hosting it while he's out of town?
Not when he still owes you for a lifetime of disappointment.
Jay Clark
#36. I don't blame you for wanting to defend your brother, Jess, but you have to let him fight some battles on his own."
"I will. Just not when he's on the ground.
Jamie McGuire
#37. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.
Ian McEwan
#38. I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms ... why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.
Katherine Jenkins
#39. Who am I to decide if he is worth my love or not when I can't even...
Pushpa Rana
#40. When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.
Anthony Hopkins
#41. What's blocking action on climate change is what's blocking action on all the other issues that matter: it would cut into profits. Never mind the deep future, not when what's at stake is quarterly earnings.
Rebecca Solnit
#42. I've come to see that these politicians that release books - no way are they actually writing those books. Not when they are working fulltime, too. There's no way. That's their name on the book, but it's not their work. I'm sure of that. There's no way.
Dean Wareham
#43. We will each face times of difficulty, and the question is not when we will face them but how we will face them.
James B. Martino
#44. Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
Mignon McLaughlin
#45. You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. Whether you like it or not, when you claim to be a Christian, the world takes note.
Monica Johnson
#47. If you're going to die, die interesting! Is there anything worse than a boring death? (Other than a Charlie Rose marathon on PBS?) I think not. When my time comes I'm going to go out in high style. I have no intention of being sick or lingering or dragging on and on and boring everyone I know.
Joan Rivers
#48. Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.
Monica Johnson
#49. The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not - when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#50. There is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
#51. That's when I did start loving Daniel. Not when I said I did, but some moments later when he replied in kind. It was the last day of January. Winter was through.
Claire Kilroy
#52. I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.
Chelsea Cain
#53. We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
Bill Gates
#54. Look not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens
Walter Scott
#55. My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.
John Schneider
#56. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#57. Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch.
Nancy Friday
#58. Brothers - not when were born by one mother, brothers - when were born by one idea. Kain haven't a brother. Never.
Pavel Amnuel
#59. When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not mean I do not love them, because I do, with all my heart, it simply means that the meaning they produce is not sufficient to fulfill a whole life. Not mine, at any rate.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#60. Sense of worth and self-confidence comes when you accept yourself as you are. not when you're trying to be what other people expect.
Auliq Ice
#61. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.
Barack Obama
#62. To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Nancy Reagan
#63. When most boys were making fun of girls who hit puberty, I was sitting on the swings wondering if I already knew you and if not, when would I?
Marilyn Grey
#64. Fall in love when you are ready, not when you're lonely.
Simon Nessman
#65. Be selfish sometimes. Love yourself. If you always put others before you, you will find yourself feeling beaten down by the world and that will make you bitter. Don't let the world make you bitter, not when you have such a beautiful soul.
Spencer Hoshino
#66. We always assume someone else will come to the rescue, but it's never us. Surely somebody will have the decency to be the hero. Right? It doesn't work like that. Not when everyone assumes someone else will do the right thing.
Jeff Goins
#67. Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.
Douglas Hofstadter
#68. A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.
Gerard De Marigny
#69. Art was there to scratch at people's brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit.
Rebecca Scherm
#70. You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
Alex Kapranos
#71. EITHER you have work or you have not. When you have to say, "Let us do something," then begins mischief. 172
Rabindranath Tagore
#72. We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.
Max Lucado
#73. What's important is that you can be a wife and mother or you can be a devoted daughter all your life. You can't be both. Not when Thomas Jefferson is your father. You have to choose, Patsy. His
Stephanie Dray
#74. The point of being good is doing it when it's tough, not when it's easy.
Sally Green
#75. I love you. Not when it's easy, all the time.
-Horde
Ann Aguirre
#76. I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.
Stephen Lang
#77. Not when tradition is built upon Truth".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#78. Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
Khalil Gibran
#79. It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try.
Alexandra Bracken
#80. If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#81. the most important thing was to show strength of will, not when matters were going well, but when they were going badly.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#82. You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.
Mariella Frostrup
#83. We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."
"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great."
"Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.
Sophie Kinsella
#84. And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs ... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark in the tank meant to frighten, more than the guy on the street meant to say something pithy about celebrity. More than this.
Michael Cunningham
#85. Questions are answered not when you want an answer but when the time for answers is right.
Eleanor Herman
#86. At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette
#87. Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.
Francois Fenelon
#88. Belagren: I can't build a whole religion on a probablity, Madalan.
Madalan: Not when sex, drugs and human sacrifices work so much better.
Jennifer Fallon
#89. Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
Dorothea Dix
#91. When everyone thinks alike, there isn't much thinking taking place. Get out when you can, not when you have to.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#92. I don't think of people as queer or straight," the Doc said. "Not when you're as old as I. And I don't think God does either."
"I didn't know you believed in God, Doc," Vance said.
James Purdy
#93. I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.
Richard Matheson
#94. Things aren't perfect. They are far, far from it,but they are getting there, and I wasn't looking back. Not when there were so many good things in the future.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#95. Why won't you let me kiss you, Anna?"
I can't breathe.
"Why, Anna?"
"It's too much," I rasp.
"Not when I want everything." He says it so deep and strong, a staking of a claim. "And I want everything with you, Anna.
Kristen Callihan
#96. It matters to me, Mays. It matters a lot. I don't like seeing some other guy touching you. Not when it should be me touching you
A Meredith Walters
#97. HARRY: "The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
(GINNY looks at him, surprised.)
Dumbledore.
GINNY: A strange thing to say to a child.
HARRY: Not when you believe that child will have to die to save the world.
J.K. Rowling
#98. All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW ... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire ... but NOW.
Susan Jeffers
#99. You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two.
Jamais Cascio
#100. Faerie may not always have been the kindest place to live, but it was still my home. I owed it to Gillian, To May, to Dare, and Tybalt and January, and all the others not to say that my life had been a mistake. Not when it had been so intertwined with theirs.
Seanan McGuire
