Top 100 Quotes About Not Okay
#1. Don't tell me it's going to fucking be okay! I am not okay with being that fucker's pinata!
Nenia Campbell
#2. I am okay but I am not okay and I don't know how to explain that any better.
Amelia Mysko
#3. I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.
Whitney Thompson
#4. I made a big mistake, and I didn't use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn't make myself any better because of it.
And that's not okay with me.
Dan Pearce
#5. You've grown tired of your four-year-old pointing to words and asking, "What does this say?" Apparently it's not okay to respond to them with, "It says, 'Learn how to read.'
Jim Gaffigan
#6. It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.
Geraldine Ferraro
#7. Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
Elizabeth Gilbert
#8. I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.'
Cat Osterman
#9. It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.
James Woods
#10. Are ... you okay?" Mark asked, hoping his friend was just tired. "I'm not," the Toad answered, his face quivering as if he were about to cry. "I'm not, Mark. I'm not okay at all. There are things living inside my skull.
James Dashner
#12. Some people think that it's okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it's certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#13. She opened one eye. "The goddess Artemis is going to talk to the supreme god Zeus ... about me?"
"Yup."
She closed her eyes again. "I'm so not okay.
Rosanna Leo
#14. It's okay to be scared, I really think that's how that whatever it is you're meant to be doing matters, but it's not okay to not find that thing you're supposed to be doing because you're afraid of something new.
Jay Crownover
#15. Are you okay?" Kelly cried.
"I shot dinner," Nick said.
Kelly snorted. "Look, Hannibal, you can shoot back if they 're shooting at you, but it's still not okay to eat them afterward.
Abigail Roux
#16. It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.
Margaret Cho
#17. No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.
Nancy Werlin
#18. If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
Jodi Picoult
#19. True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection.
Michael Singer
#20. Aunt Bette." I started squirming toward her voice. "Are you okay?" "No, I'm not okay. We've been kidnapped and Marsh is drinking martinis and probably flirting with the waitress!" she snapped, and it sounded like she too was moving but not in my direction.
Kristen Ashley
#21. In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese
Fernando Sabino
#22. I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?
Seth MacFarlane
#23. Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
Keri Russell
#24. Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
Imelda Staunton
#25. My philosophy now is this: Everything will be all right in the end. If it's not okay, the end is nowhere in sights
Victoria Haugnes
#26. Okay, can somebody quickly just summarize for the shotgun department who it's okay and not okay to shoot?
David Wong
#27. I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.
Rachel Held Evans
#28. I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.
Reese Witherspoon
#29. One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.
Tim McGraw
#30. The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.
Nakia R. Laushaul
#31. Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
Brooke Burke
#33. I am not okay.
But I will be fine.
Anonymous
#34. What is perceived as normal. That makes it other people's failings. Deficits. Not yours. Who the hell sets the standards, huh? Who gets to say how we are supposed to be? Or who we are supposed to be? And how dare anyone make you feel inadequate for being who you are? It's not okay. It pisses me off.
Jessica Park
#35. If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.
Barry Ritholtz
#36. I sat down in the middle. "So," I said to Darryl, "do you think Korra is going to be as good an avatar as Aang?" "Who's Aang?" he asked. "You started him with Korra?" I accused Jesse. "That's not okay. It's like reading the last chapter of the book first.
Patricia Briggs
#37. It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power.
Joan Kirner
#38. Okay, let me state right now that I am not a coward. I'm really not. But I'm not a fool, either. I think if you recognize that you are up against a force greater than your own, it is perfectly okay to run.
It's not okay to leave others behind, though.
Meg Cabot
#39. Of course it's not okay with me, I'm a teenage boy. As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happenedd since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru" - Jace
Cassandra Clare
#40. I'm smile when I look into your eyes; yet, I'm still not Okay.
Kent Ian N. Cny
#41. Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.
Karina Longworth
#42. The very fact that it is necessary in the twenty-first century to explain why it's not okay to publicly debate whether or not women are "asking" for sexual assault is mind-boggling.
Laura Bates
#43. It's okay to fall. Everyone falls. It's not okay to stay there. Grieve. Cry. Get mad if you need to. The important thing is in the end, you're standing.
Me
#44. Concerning PDA: Anything that can be described as 'cute' is okay. Anything that can be described as 'mating' is not okay.
Ryan Hansen
#46. Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me ... Im not okay ... Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay
Gerard Way
#47. No, it's not okay. You said you wanna be friends, but we can't hang out?" I rolled my eyes, and Travis huffed. "Don't roll your eyes at me. Are you coming or not?
Jamie McGuire
#48. I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second.
Gillian Flynn
#50. Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?
Frankie Boyle
#51. It's okay that you're not okay. Whatever you're feeling is okay.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.
Cupcake Brown
#53. Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.
Max Black
#54. An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as (we) were taught to believe that we were loved.
Bell Hooks
#55. Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?
David Byrne
#56. You have created a society in which it is very not okay to want to die - very not okay to be very okay with death.
Neale Donald Walsch
#57. This was wrong. Tony didn't want to have feelings. The sex was great. It was okay to want her, dominate her, and control her. It was not okay to want to be with her, please her, and love her. Yet every one of his senses desired Claire.
Aleatha Romig
#58. You're not okay. And I'm the one who noticed.
Sarina Bowen
#59. I was not okay for one thing.For another, I'd passed from simple misanthropy to nihilism, death of the spirit and beyond.
T.C. Boyle
#60. You are turning me into what I never have been and never wanted to be, a nag, because you are not living up to your end of a very basic contract. Don't do that, it's not okay to do.
Gillian Flynn
#61. Johns, what the fuck are you doing?" Digger called. "You don't chat with ghosts, you fucking run like Scooby-Doo, man!"
"It's okay," Owen told them.
"Scooby-Doo!"
"Not okay," Nick cried.
Abigail Roux
#62. The world was FUBAR now. And if you're not okay with that, you're just a corpse waiting to happen.
Rick Yancey
#63. Trying again is okay. Trying again and again and again is okay. It's sort of an infinite thing because the alternative is failure, and that's not okay.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#64. It's not okay to send a feeble kid out to fight our battles, and it's not okay to push people around like pawns on a fuckin chessboard and it's not okay giving orders to kill like a Mafia boss.
Stephen King
#65. No, Zoey."
Heat sounded pissed.
It's not okay here. Not for you."
Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.
P.C. Cast
#66. Oh. Well. A slumber party with Dracula? All things considered, why not? Okay, but I snore.
Jeaniene Frost
#67. I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I'm challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don't tell you how to get there and I don't show you what to do, though I'll ask leading questions.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#68. I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.
Charlie Weis
#69. Are you okay?" someone asked.
"I'm fine," I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin.
"I have to admit, you're getting better at lying, Tess Embers," he said quietly. "However, I know you're not okay.
Embee
#70. And I've been dubbed adorable. I am not okay with this. This is not acceptable. Charlotte is so getting fucked from behind tonight so she knows there's nothing adorable about me.
Lauren Blakely
#71. So you'll excuse me if I have to disagree with you. It is not okay-it will not ever be okay-and whereas I'm more than willing to live with the fact that I was a walking, talking lie for decades, the idea that it sacrificed what could have been between us ... is absolutely, positively not okay to me.
J.R. Ward
#72. Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.
Rick Santorum
#73. It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.
Keri Hilson
#74. Bullying is wrong. It is not okay to bully others back because they bullied you.
We learned our lesson with Don the Goat
T.R. Durphy
#75. With the full assurance God is okay with me even when I'm not okay with me. And I realize, I can't hold on to the desire to run and at the same time go where God wants to lead me.
Lysa TerKeurst
#76. It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#77. Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Julie Johnson
#78. Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.
Lauren Conrad
#79. And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other.
"Why didn't you just ... fade?" Gaia demanded plaintively.
"You hit me," Nemesis said. It was a little boy's voice coming from Caine's mouth. "And that's not okay.
Michael Grant
#80. Some days I feel like I'm still not okay. Some days I feel fine. Happy, even.
Veronica Roth
#81. While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.
Chetan Bhagat
#82. It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
Gloria Steinem
#83. My body gets excited without my permission, and it's not okay. It's out of control. I don't like out of control, but I like Wallace.
Francesca Zappia
#84. It's okay to be discouraged. It's not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you've decided to lay siege to in your own life - that's persistence.
Ryan Holiday
#85. Ah, here's my SUV." He made sure her dress was tucked into the car before shutting her door. "I'll wait for you just down the road and then you can follow me home. Oh, and Jack? This is a one night only invitation. If you're not okay with that keep on driving.
Mary J. Williams
#86. Dilly closed his eyes and tried to find some way to drown out all the emotions that sliced at his soul. "No. I am so not okay that I don't even have words for how not okay I am.
Lyn Gala
#87. 1. Bullying is not okay. Period.
2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.
3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up.
Jim C. Hines
#88. Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. I am not okay, and you are not okay. But Jesus can fix us both.
Steve Corbett
#89. It dawns on you one day ... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you're thinking, My life is precious and you're not allowed to hurt me.
C. JoyBell C.
#90. Everything will be okay in the end. And if it's not okay,, It's not the end.
Orizuka
#91. One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.
Christopher Buehlman
#92. It's not okay." He spoke jerkily, painfully. "I will hurt you, and I will leave you, and I will cheat on you.
Kitty French
#93. It's okay to feel bad about how things went down, but it's not okay to drown in guilt and regret every day for having made decisions other people don't agree with. At some point, we all have to man up and decide to do what we have to do, despite the people around us who try to get in the way.
M-E Girard
#94. It's not okay, it's not all right. But if you just hold on, One more day, one more hour. It will be. It will be.
Jasinda Wilder
#96. And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#97. Through the kids, I had started to understand more about love and what it was to truly give love and receive it. I learned that there are certain things it's not okay to accept, and that was making me feel powerful and strong.
Jennifer Lopez
#98. I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.
Elizabeth Pisani
#99. Emotions can create problems that do not exist. It's fine to be justifiably angry. But, it's not okay to let that anger fester long enough to become bitterness.
Ruben Papian
#100. He keeps whispering, "You're okay," and I simultaneously love him and hate him for saying that. I'm fucking not okay at all. And yet it's exactly what I most want to be: okay. He can't give that to me, but I love him for trying.
Matthew Quick
