Or Not Quotes

#1. As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Jack Kevorkian

#2. Always ask yourself the question Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

Bob Proctor

#3. With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.

James Van Praagh

#4. There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not.

Mick Hucknall

#5. To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you.

Deyth Banger

#6. Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.
The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. Whether we like it or not, the people who raise us leave an indelible mark.

Robyn Carr

#8. Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.

Milton William Cooper

#9. Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.

Wanda Landowska

#10. We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not ... You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

Chaim Weizmann

#11. Like it or not," he said, "you're still his daughter. Run from it, spit on it, that's your choice. Those of the blood can insult the blood. Nobody else. I won't allow it.

Ilona Andrews

#12. The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

John Foster Dulles

#13. The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

Robert Webb

#14. All the important promises are about leaving or not leaving.

Craig Johnson

#15. The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. He doesn't deserve to die," she said. Tears pricked at her eyes. "Does anyone? Whether he deserves it or not is neither here nor there; it's simply his fate. You can no more change that than you can change the course of the stars.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#17. Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

Joseph Heller

#18. We can live in fear, or not.

Nathan Lowell

#19. Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

Nicolas Cage

#20. I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

Ed Asner

#21. Whether you like it or not, the course of your (America's) history has made you the leaders of the world. Your country can no longer think provincially.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#22. I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Dorianne Laux

#23. Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she'll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with the big syringe.

Joel Shepherd

#24. Regardless of whether or not the producers think that there are five other people waiting for the job, the one that is there needs to be treated as if they are the only person for the job in that moment.

Anika Noni Rose

#25. If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"

Romola Garai

#26. As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.

Kate Christensen

#27. You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

O. Winston Link

#28. Whenever I use to think of others, I had to sacrifice myself ... , Its called life in earth where you had to think a lot to do or not to do, the things you like or dislike ...

Nutan Bajracharya

#29. Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children.

Betty Friedan

#30. The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall-

John Grisham

#31. Not in Utopia,
subterranean fields,
Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us,
the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

William Wordsworth

#32. Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

Chris Christie

#33. I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.

Roy Moore

#34. There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.

Kelly Price

#35. I hope you understand that it is not the tooth of the saber-toothed tiger I want, it is the tiger. I don't care if it's a old toothless tiger or not, just so it's alive. I intend to start a zoo.

Flannery O'Connor

#36. Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

Marilu Henner

#37. I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Jane Goodall

#38. To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question.

Shannen Doherty

#39. Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.

Campbell Scott

#40. Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

Neil Gaiman

#41. Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

Louisa May Alcott

#42. I believe that whether one believes in God or not is - it's very central to who I am.

Susan Jacoby

#43. It is only in the philosophy of the seminar room that serious doubts are raised as to weather or not dogs and cats and other animals have consciousness. We all know how aware they are of their surroundings... and of us... they leave no doubt when they are in pain...

Daniel N. Robinson

#44. Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.

Suzanne Johnson

#45. Kurt Angle and Randy Orton were great guys to work with. The Undertaker was great to work with, believe it or not, because of the height difference. But overall, my number one choice is Eddie Guerrero, and that's because without him, Rey Mysterio wouldn't be at the level that he was in WWE.

Oscar Gutierrez

#46. How did you know," Summer would demand, and then decide: "It's probably a coincidence."
"It's not a coincidence," Bird would say. "It's just obvious. Your body just knows."
"But how do you know?"
"How do you know a story is a good story or not?" asked Bird. "Like that. you know like that.

Katherine Catmull

#47. The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#48. Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.

Nikki Grimes

#49. Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied.

Bell Hooks

#50. Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

Linda Gordon

#51. Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.

Alan Furst

#52. But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Alexander McCall Smith

#53. You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#54. Believe it or not, I would go through the pain of losing you ten times over for that boy to still be alive. For you Jay, so that you wouldn't have to live with this for the rest of your life.

Nicole Reed

#55. I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

Reid Hoffman

#56. Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.

Gus Van Sant

#57. Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That's the rule. It can never be exactly the same." A

Haruki Murakami

#58. Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not.

Cynthia Daignault

#59. You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

David Morrell

#60. Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.

L. Frank Baum

#61. Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

Ali Akbar Khan

#62. Whether it's difficult or not, there will be a few people who are outstanding, who will rise above the rest.

John Gokongwei

#63. I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.

Jaime Camil

#64. They seemed to want her approval, without having to know whether she approved or not.

Ayn Rand

#65. Claude has no claws and he thought I was being ironic. I'm not actually sure if it's ironic or not. That Alanis Morissette song sort of fucked up irony for everyone.

Jenny Lawson

#66. This was a revolution, whether the enemy knew it or not.

Shelly Crane

#67. The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.

Charles Krauthammer

#68. Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

#69. Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.

David Harsanyi

#70. I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

Nigel Rees

#71. I don't plan to go out and do action or not do action.

Michelle Yeoh

#72. If I was you," I whispered in her ear, "I'd be less worried about whether or not a girl beat up my boyfriend and more concerned about why my boyfriend wasn't with me instead.

Karen Lynch

#73. The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

Brian Tracy

#74. I think there's little things you can do with a dermatologist that can stave off major, giant surgery, which is really scary. But I'm all for, if something's bothering you, fix it. At least talk to somebody to see what it would take to fix it, and see if that's for you or not.

Christie Brinkley

#75. I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

Alan Lightman

#76. There are some things that must be done quickly or not at all. If someone asks you if you love them you cannot hesitate. There are some paths that must be taken at speed.

Mark Lawrence

#77. In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

Roger Waters

#78. You don't like Talon, do you? (Sunshine) Wish him dead every time I see him. (Zarek) I can't tell if you mean that or not. (Sunshine) I mean it. (Zarek) Why? (Sunshine) He's an asshole and I've had enough assholes in my life. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#79. Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

Pablo Picasso

#80. Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

Walter Hill

#81. I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Don DeLillo

#82. I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.

Michael Richards

#83. A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

Denzel Washington

#84. Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#85. And do you call yours a divine discontent?'
'Yes. I don't care about its divinity. But damn your happiness! So long as life's full, it doesn't matter whether it's happy or not. I'm afraid your happiness would bore me.

D.H. Lawrence

#86. Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.

Dorothy Gilman

#87. Connie went away completely bewildered. She was not sure whether she had been insulted and mortally offended, or not.

D.H. Lawrence

#88. I would like to be remembered as a good father. A good husband. A good brother. A good friend. A good man. But that is simply not going to happen. Like it or not, I have reached the point of infamy when I am going to be remembered simply as 'Ronnie Biggs', whatever or whoever he is in your mind.

Ronald Biggs

#89. You never did ... anything else with Ren?"
I knew he wasn't talking about me painting him and stuff. "Why would I want him when I got you?" And then I got worried, 'cause I wasn't sure if I still had Larry or not.

J.L. Merrow

#90. I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.

Xavier Dolan

#91. A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.

Richard Bach

#92. The flame and the void are about center," Tam said. "And about peace. I would teach it to each and every person in this land, soldier or not, if I could.

Robert Jordan

#93. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

Fran Lebowitz

#94. The research is the most interesting part ... That's how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I've come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I'm after.

Martin Cruz Smith

#95. You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Mark Russell

#96. and I learned a lesson about not judging people until you've found out whether or not they've read Harry Potter. Kyle

Holly Bourne

#97. Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#98. You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not.

Robert De Castella

#99. To be or not to be, that is not a question, because reality transcends both notions of birth and death, of being and non-being.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#100. I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

B.F. Skinner