Sometimes Not Quotes

#1. If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond the bounds of attention, there are things in the universe, in the universes of mind, in the inner worlds, it's best sometimes not to deal with unless you're very, very far along.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Still, when the shooting and shelling stopped, they could sometimes -- not often, but sometimes -- see that they were just someone's son, or husband, or brother.

Craig Siegel

#3. I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

David Packard

#4. Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

Julien Smith

#5. Sorry, sweetheart," he murmurs, "you're going to learn that sometimes, not being in control is extremely liberating.

K. Bromberg

#6. Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Noam Chomsky

#7. A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it's a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death.

Marisha Pessl

#8. In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Denis Diderot

#9. Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

Anthony Foxx

#10. Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Rob Glaser

#11. I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

David Byrne

#12. On the surface she might put on a good show, making fun of herself and her manless state, but inwardly it was hard sometimes not to wonder: Why me?

Jill Mansell

#13. My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

Olga Kurylenko

#14. Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it's more exhausting than lifting pianos.

Steve Toltz

#15. You always want to see people who are just like a little outside of the box. Maybe making mistakes sometimes. Not taking something that's straight off the runway, but mixing and matching things. Old and new.

Jacob Hashimoto

#16. This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Lemony Snicket

#17. It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always - not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.

Glenn Greenwald

#18. Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment.

Cindy Vine

#19. I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

Samuel L. Jackson

#20. To some extent, at least, you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#21. People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Maria Mitchell

#22. I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.

Eva Green

#23. I grew up with nothing - I remember sometimes not having shoes.

Kesha

#24. She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.

Khaled Hosseini

#25. I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they don't even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

Thomas Piketty

#27. Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

August Strindberg

#28. But you know, sometimes not getting what you want is getting exactly what you need.

Stephanie Evanovich

#29. Not a day or an hour and sometimes not even a moment in advance did I have any idea what Patrick had in mind for me, or whether he had me in mind at all. This uncertainty lay like a sore under the surface of my skin, erupting again and again, then subsiding, but never healing.

Jan Ellison

#30. What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.

Willa Gibbs

#31. During the Age of Silence, people communicated more, not less. Basic survival demanded that the hands were almost never still, and so it was only during sleep (and sometimes not even then) that people were not saying something or other.

Nicole Krauss

#32. Sometimes not thinking too hard is the easiest thing of all.

Jane Green

#33. I am aware that what
the body does for love
is sometimes not.
I celebrate reversals.
I watch a funeral
somewhere at sea.

Jerome Rothenberg

#34. Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

Sheryl Sandberg

#35. Love: The heart wants what it wants. It doesn't seek other people's opinions; sometimes not even your own.

Steve Maraboli

#36. The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

Robert Genn

#37. DNCE is "dance without the a." It's not a perfect word, and you don't always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.

Joe Jonas

#38. Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

Mignon McLaughlin

#39. Don't you even watch gay porn?"

It was Ryan's turn to blush. "Not really. Sometimes. Not very often, though."

"Why not?"

He shrugged awkwardly. "It doesn't really turn me on."

"You need to watch better porn," Henry muttered.

Anna Martin

#40. Sometimes not looking for something is the best way to look for it

Himanshu Chhabra

#41. Sometimes - not very often at all, actually - a voice will penetrate past my ears and reverberate straight down through my body.

Colleen Hoover

#42. Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us.

Harriet Lerner

#43. It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

George Eliot

#44. One of the prominent features of exercise, which is sometimes not appreciated in studies, is an improvement in the rate of learning,

John J. Ratey

#45. I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#46. [ ... ]certainly not one of them would have known what to reply if they had been asked, Why are you holding hands as you go, it simply came about, there are gestures for which we cannot always find an easy explanation, sometimes not even a difficult one can be found.

Jose Saramago

#47. Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.

Nicholas Sparks

#48. Sometimes not much is just enough.

John O'Callaghan

#49. The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

Chris Lynch

#50. I wanted to tell her she was beautiful, but it almost seemed like saying that to her would be diminishing it. You don't reassure a rainbow it's colourful, or a star that it shines. Sometimes, not saying something says more than anything else.

Nina G. Jones

#51. Sometimes not knowing helps you to get along with your life better than how much knowing must have.

Eliza

#52. She'd rather be alone than settle just because she was lonely, but sometimes - not that she'd admit it to another soul - that choice sucked.

Donna Alward

#53. I think that sometimes not giving someone all the information is nearly the same as a lie. You've started on a slippery path, dear. Beware your next step. Lillian

Lisa Kleypas

#54. If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they spoke of Jesus appearing through locked doors, disappearing again, sometimes being recognized, sometimes not, and finally ascending into heaven

N. T. Wright

#55. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

Colleen Hoover

#56. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

Connor Franta

#57. Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Dalai Lama XIV

#58. Sometimes not punishing your enemy is the best strategy. What they will do to themselves, after experiencing your mercy, is much more effective.

Sarah Noffke

#59. When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

Sydney Pollack

#60. I think it's nice sometimes not to be plugged in 24/7 to email and the Internet and everything else. It's nice to get away.

Andrew Luck

#61. "Sometimes" is sometimes "not never".

Leslie Lamport

#62. We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's.

Phil Harris

#63. There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

Neil LaBute

#64. It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

David Hewson

#65. But I also am pragmatic. Sometimes not doing something is a violence because you're complicit in whatever injustices your government is engaged in. By being passive, you're being violent.

Sarah Lilton

#66. Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

Wallace Stegner

#67. We always want to love the recipients of our charity," the doctor said, negotiating a sharp bend in the road with a surprising demonstration of steering skill, "but it is not necessary. Indeed, it is sometimes not possible.

Alan Bradley

#68. Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.

Dusty Springfield

#69. Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Ann Patchett

#70. Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

China Mieville

#71. Maria loved the way she and Liz could just sit in the same room together, each doing their own thing, sometimes talking, sometimes not. You had to be really good friends with someone before it felt this comfortable to basically ignore them for long stretches of time.

Melinda Metz

#72. I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.

Anna Kendrick

#73. To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications.

Leon Foucault

#74. A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

Frederick Lenz

#75. It was my kind of song: fast and fun and exuberant,the lyrics tumbling out almost faster than my ears could follow them,some times rhyming,sometimes not ...

Anthony Rapp

#76. [S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.

Nel Noddings

#77. The open road is gone. The spontaneous stops and sometimes not knowing where we are but not giving a damn, is gone.

J.A. Redmerski

#78. Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

Ann Coulter

#79. The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.

Shawn Amos

#80. My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

Philip Glass

#81. Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago and I still looked like hell.

Junot Diaz

#82. What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#83. The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Angus Wilson

#84. Sometimes not knowing enough can allow you to think you can achieve anything.

Tony Bramwell

#85. Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.

Nicholas Stoller

#86. anthrapologize FW 151.7 v. Express regret or apologize for the science of man or anthropology. So many mistakes, unintentional and sometimes not, have been made in the study of human origins and development, especially racial, along with customs and beliefs, that some apologies are needed.

Bill Cole Cliett

#87. I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest
sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

Charlie Munger

#88. Blue bead on the wick,
there's that in me that
burns and chills, blackening
my heart with its soot,
I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
but a different god.

Denise Levertov

#89. Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.

Ally Carter

#90. The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

Felix J. Palma

#91. Sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing - even if knowing proves to be very painful.

Douglas Preston

#92. The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,
efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

Arthur Helps

#93. When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

Laozi

#94. Meaning is sometimes not what you say but how you say it.

Bonakala Bsac

#95. The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

Fred Rogers

#96. Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

Kate DiCamillo

#97. The color, the shape, and the texture
none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years
centuries, even
before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection.

Tim Gunn

#98. It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever sad. All the words. Starting from your very first one.

Colleen Hoover

#99. I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

Ellen Burstyn

#100. Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.

Julius Evola