That Not Quotes

#1. I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

Nick Ferguson

#2. I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.

Bruce Forsyth

#3. I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

Penn Jillette

#4. Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Robert Kirkman

#5. Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said ... Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?

David Gemmell

#6. Control was all about focus, and he couldn't do that, not with Jess hovering, studying him like a puzzle she could piece back together. She hadn't yet realized that the picture had changed.

Victoria Schwab

#7. I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

Buzz Aldrin

#8. Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.'

Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.

John Boyne

#9. It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#10. I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause.

William Shakespeare

#11. We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at the floor, you can look up. It's not your role to follow the others. It's your role to go to your centre and then reflect that, not just to be a mirror to what's happening.

James T. Hubbell

#13. Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.

Reese Witherspoon

#15. I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

Jeremy Irvine

#16. I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

Albert Schweitzer

#17. I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#18. I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

Andy Garcia

#19. I listened to Otis harrumphing and snoring down by my feet and felt like the only person left on earth still awake, the only person who knew the secret that not a single thing in this world was worth a damn.

Carrie Mesrobian

#20. I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.

Kelis

#21. He nodded, still holding her gaze in that way he had that convinced her that not only could he read her mind, but he could see right through her. Inside her.

Jill Shalvis

#22. Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made?

Tom Robbins

#23. There is a good chance that whatever it is you have to accomplish isn't as bad as you think it's going to be, and if you'd just do it, you could see that not only the task wasn't as daunting as you anticipated it would be, but you could get it done in less time than you thought it would take you.

Graham Elliot

#24. I love the fact that we've made a film that not only the whole family can go to and enjoy but, you know, it's actually having an effect. You know, Rey's character is a tough woman who your 6-year-old can pick up a lightsaber now and go for it.

Maryann Brandon

#25. Fierce, and what capitalists sometimes call 'ruinous' competition tends, therefore, to produce leap-frogging innovations that more often that not lead capitalists to fetishise technological and organisational innovations as the answer to all their prayers

David Harvey

#26. Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

Nadia Comaneci

#27. I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

Emeli Sande

#28. Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Tom McCall

#29. We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves?

Andrew Levkoff

#30. If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Carlisle Floyd

#31. Truthfully, I'm not sure at all, but I'd never let anyone know that, not even Seven. And before you say shit, I'm well aware that I just told you, but you don't count so stop trying to inject yourself into the damn story. This is an important moment.

J.M. Darhower

#32. We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Cornel West

#33. I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

Steve Coogan

#34. We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.

Cory Booker

#35. I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

Samuel L. Jackson

#36. As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music ... and you know, you hope people respond to it. You always have to know, as well, that not everybody's gonna like it. And that's okay. It's not for everyone. It's just for the crusty nugs.

Pauly Shore

#37. My butt cheeks clenched so tightly that not even light could have escaped.

David Wong

#38. Every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

A.W. Tozer

#39. The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

Edwin Moses

#40. Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Blaise Pascal

#41. There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

Bjork

#42. Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of those bourgeois "virtues" which are just so many reactions to Blue Funk.

Aleister Crowley

#43. The lessons Morden had learnt when he had broken Billard's finger were that not many understood the real nature of pain, and even fewer understood that true power does not come from indiscriminate acts but calculated demonstrations of Will.

Paul Dale

#44. If someone sees you ugly? try to to tell them that Not All Angels are Good Looking.

Kent Ian N. Cny

#45. I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

Rami Malek

#46. People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Claude Debussy

#47. It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?'

Lynn Jurich

#49. Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

Georges Cuvier

#50. I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

Mary Roach

#51. The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longest day of my life. I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds,

Carol Rifka Brunt

#52. It was not until very much in the posterior that I understanded that each of us was laughing for a different reason, for our own reason, and that not on of those reasons had a thing to do with the potato.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#53. I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

Voltaire

#54. Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

Palmer Luckey

#55. The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.

Colum McCann

#56. I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I had ever thought. Some have a harder chance. Some get no chance at all. With great sadness, I saw so many people born in the wrong time to be happy.

Andrew Sean Greer

#57. What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

Saint Augustine

#58. Albert B. Saye, who has searched hardest for debtors among the colonists, estimates that not more than a dozen debtors released from prison by Parliament ever came to Georgia, if indeed that many came.

Kenneth Coleman

#59. Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Warren Beatty

#60. Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.

Clarice Lispector

#61. I've learned, that not all worth is measured by price. I've found so many gems that didn't cost me much!

C. JoyBell C.

#62. The truth is that not story or life lived goes on without the experiences changing you. For better or worse, life does that. The events that take place make you who you are. Sometimes they take more than you have to give.

Joann Buchanan

#63. It is enough to know that not to know is enough.
It is enough not to know.

Marcus Sedgwick

#64. If she hurts him because she loves him, is that still hurt? If she hurts him a lot now so that he will hurt less later, does that make her a terrible person? [...]
Is that not how love should work?

N.K. Jemisin

#65. Never mind though our purses be as empty as the falcon's nest of a year ago. Let that not detain us. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means. Come, let us go to Arkad and ask how we, also, may acquire incomes for ourselves.

George S. Clason

#66. It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.

Eugene Mirman

#67. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY has told us that "Not to undeceive, is to deceive";

John Denham Parsons

#68. She accepted that--not reconciled: accepted--as though there is a breathing-point in outrage when you can accept it almost with gratitude since you can say to yourself, 'thank God, this is all; at least I now know all of it--

William Faulkner

#69. Poles had a dark joke in 1944, about a bird which falls out of the sky into a cowpat, to be rescued by a cat; its moral, they said, was that Not everyone who gets you out of the shit is necessarily your friend.

Max Hastings

#70. She made a blunder that not even a twelve-year-old would commit, which only proved that her brain was being eaten up by worms and that she deserved to be flogged.

Stieg Larsson

#71. A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

Jessica Capshaw

#72. The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

Rafael Correa

#73. For a long time, my life has not been quote-unquote normal. And I'm OK with that, because what I'm trying to do is something that's above and beyond, that not very many people in America or the world have achieved at all. So, I don't mind that my life is so hectic and crazy.

Mariel Zagunis

#74. ....he has done nothing but prove to me that not only is he a good man, he's a man madly in love with my daughter, and will do anything to protect her.

Sam Crescent

#75. If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.

Shane Claiborne

#76. Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#77. Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.

William Styron

#78. It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

John Calvin

#79. the innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world'.62 Numerous experiments have shown that not only do rewards reduce motivation, they actually hamper our performance. In

Raoul Martinez

#80. The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

Douglas Coupland

#81. Sometimes one forgets that not everyone in this world is a bastard.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#82. I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very much the norm with early stage investment.

Andy Murray

#83. It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

Mustafa Akyol

#84. It's the song of a man trying to forget a woman, but then he realizes it's impossible, that not being with her is harmful and he dies of despair, not knowing whether she still wants to be with him.

Amanda Laneley

#85. My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.

Peter Scolari

#86. The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#87. I explained that when our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends aren't welcome at the table, then we don't feel welcome either, and that not every young adult gets married or has children, so we need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

Rachel Held Evans

#88. Pretending not to be hurt is a brave thing to do ... But you know what? Crying is braver. Why? Coz not everyone can accept the fact that ... Not all things are meant for you.

Lanie Lane

#89. That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

Joan Didion

#90. Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

#91. I quoted to him what I remembered of Charles Darwin: "'Judging by the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity ... '"
"Darwin was right," Nebogipfel said gently.

Stephen Baxter

#92. I have made mistakes - mighty big ones at that. Not the kind that would cause a national fiscal deficit a-la Manmohan Singh or ruin some unassuming person's life, but the kind that makes you go into face palm mode and want to die every time you are reminded of them.

Shuchi Singh Kalra

#93. I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.

Kathryn Harrison

#94. I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct.

Mac Thornberry

#95. Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

Helen Fisher

#96. I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

Jennifer Aniston

#97. Interestingly, the only class that Eric actually enjoyed in Korea was math. He noticed it on his first day of school. Something was very different about how math was taught in Korea. Something that not even Minnesota had figured out.

Amanda Ripley

#98. We had nothing to say to each other; and I was conscious that not only my remarks but my presence was criticized. They wished for the truth, and doubted whether a woman could speak it or be it. I thought this courageous of them; but unsympathetic. I had to remember that one is not full grown at 21.

Virginia Woolf

#99. One is reminded of Patriarch Nicephoros (806-815), who believed that "not only Christ, but the whole universe disappears if neither circumscribability nor image exist.

Maximos Nicholas Constar

#100. I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

Abbie Hoffman