Top 100 We Don't Always Quotes
#1. As women, we do feel like we have to live up to an expectation, whether it's on camera or going to the market or whatever it is. And the truth of the matter is, that's not always the way it is. We don't always have our high heels on, we don't always have our makeup on.
Jennifer Aniston
#2. Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don't always recognize and can't always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.
Sue Grafton
#3. Perhaps the whole of life is a continuous
interconnecting of miracle,
but we don't always realise it.
Paul Morris Segal
#4. The only thing that's ours to accept is the fact that we don't always get to know the answers.
Sarah Ockler
#5. No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don't always realize it's around us.
Saul Bellow
#6. We don't always come out unbreakable the first time. So we are broken and rebuilt several times, until there is no question that we can stand on our own
Arlene Lagos
#7. I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.
Jack Nicholson
#8. We don't always plan what happens in our life. Sometimes things just unravel
Scott Hildreth
#9. Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.
Joan Bauer
#10. We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
Malcolm Gladwell
#11. You might like either the Republicans or the Democrats more than I do, but still something is wrong in today's politics, even if we don't always agree
Tyler Cowen
#12. Sadly, like many times in life, including winning the lottery, we don't always get what we wish for.
Adele Rose
#13. We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail ...
Julia Cameron
#14. I know
Okay, Sorry. I am.
Look, I'm human. It's hard to be fair sometimes. We don't always feel the right thing, do the right thing
Stephenie Meyer
#16. We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.
Shane Koyczan
#17. Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.
Cory Booker
#18. Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don't always get what we wish for.
Tucker Max
#19. We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.
Paulo Coelho
#20. But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.
Suzanne LaFleur
#21. No one aspires to be the person who handles this kind of situation well. And we don't always handle it well.
Bruce Feiler
#22. We don't always love our friends every minute.
Sara Shepard
#23. We don't always know when or why, but these memories come back to us, reminders of what we did and who we were in another time.
John Meyer
#24. The French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. Why is this word so hard to find? The reasons are many. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out.
Jacques Barzun
#25. We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
Dan Ariely
#26. Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it.
Stephenie Meyer
#27. You don't understand guys Norah, we don't always think, we just do. It's hard for us to focus clearly sometimes and we end up just acting on impulse, which isn't always a smart thing.
Angela Richardson
#28. You're hard," she whispered, and I couldn't help my smirk.
"Yes. I'm very fucking hard."
"I want to see," she boldly stated.
No one could accuse Addison Lancaster of not going after what she wanted.
"Well, we don't always get what we want.
Ella Frank
#29. We make high demands on the people we expect to deliver justice, and we don't always appreciate how much it eats away at them.
Val McDermid
#30. Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don't always get it right, even with that.
Rand Paul
#31. We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.
Joyce Meyer
#32. We don't always get the journey we want. But we always get the journey we need.
Alyson Noel
#33. We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#34. When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
Mary Karr
#35. Life is about changes and opportunities. We don't always get a perfect picture.
Ellen J. Barrier
#36. Too bad we don't always get what we want.
Evan Currie
#37. There's little things like that, that we paid a lot of attention to. We don't always know how to bond together to get help or to do something, and our attempts are often awkward, selfish or weird. We talked a lot about how to open things up.
Remi Aubuchon
#38. we don't always understand what happens to us or why, but if we could see through the lens of eternity, we'd weep with joy.
Victoria Bylin
#39. We don't always get everything. And sometimes we worry too much about our circumstances. We think oh I'll be happy when I get my job back, or I'll be happy when I get a man back, but it's really about allowing God to give us joy now.
Bonnie St. John
#40. We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.
Rick Wagoner
#41. I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.
Ann Aguirre
#42. We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
Surya Das
#43. The horror genre gets you in touch with our primal instincts as a people more than any other genre I can think of. It gives you this chance to sort of reflect on who we are and look at the sort of uglier side that we don't always look at, and have fun with that very thing.
Drew Goddard
#44. is biological, but we don't always realize that the ability to sleep is a learned skill.
Kim West
#45. People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.
Maya Angelou
#46. Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.
Travis Bradberry
#47. We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.
Ray Lamontagne
#48. Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.
Tom Rath
#49. Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
Cory Booker
#50. We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done
Erika Johansen
#51. Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
Ellen Hopkins
#52. We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly
as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth
the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives
John Irving
#53. We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content,
Patrick Collison
#54. Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.
Eric Maskin
#55. We all get lots of people. And maybe we don't always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.
John Corey Whaley
#56. If we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.
Rosa Bonheur
#57. We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.
Tina Weymouth
#58. But we don't always have to be studying something, I thought, it's perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that's the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer
Thomas Bernhard
#59. We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#60. We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.
Fred Rogers
#61. We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
Christopher Lee
#62. It's okay for someone to let you win sometimes, you know,' he said, getting all serious. 'We don't always have to be the losers, Valerie. They may want to make us feel that way, but we're not. Sometimes we get to win, too.
Jennifer Brown
#63. We don't use the word 'intelligence' with software. We regard that as a naive idea. We say that it's 'complex.' Which means that we don't always understand what it's doing.
Orson Scott Card
#64. We don't always have the explanations for certain events and acts of God. He is sovereign. He owes us no explanation. He purposes to teach us to walk by faith and not by sight. When Scripture records an event or judgment
Beth Moore
#65. Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.
Sylvain Reynard
#66. Sometimes, the scales of justice find a level of their own, without our help ... And sometimes, in seeking justice, we don't always serve it.
Susanna Kearsley
#67. Love in the real world doesn't usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don't always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you can't love someone else. - Georgina to Brandy
Richelle Mead
#68. Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.
Robert Genn
#69. We don't always understand other people's pain, Ryder. Just because we can't see it, doesn't mean they aren't hurting.
Jani Kay
#70. In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started.
Rebecah McManus
#71. In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.
Susana Martinez
#72. What does waiting do? None of us are promised a tomorrow ... We don't always get a later." He kissed my temple again, then pulled back, his eyes finding mine. "I'm done living like we do.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#73. I was never looking to be popular. The trade-off for me in seeking other people's opinions is the potential to help that you get in the media. And we don't always do that, but when we do, it's a beautiful thing.
Chris Cuomo
#74. I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that. (Ramon Estevez) on Inside the Actor's Studio
Martin Sheen
#75. We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long ...
Johnny Depp
#76. We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
Gary Oldman
#77. Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense.
George Eliot
#78. Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand ...
Terry Goodkind
#79. The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
Bobby Farrelly
#80. We don't always choose our path in life, sometimes it chooses us. It might not be the smoothest ride, but you will end up where you're meant to be. Do what makes you happy, no matter what, and don't worry about the details. Details have a way of working themselves out in the end.
Ellie Grace
#81. We don't always get closure. Sometimes we have to make our own.
Leah Raeder
#82. We don't always get what we want. And sometimes, when we do, it's not worth the price.
Stephanie Lawton
#83. Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other
that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.
Colleen Hoover
#84. While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.
John C. Maxwell
#85. We don't always know why God allows trials. We do know He wants us to trust Him.
Jill Eileen Smith
#86. I've learned we don't always get to pick our circumstances. We just get to deal with them.
Ginny Dye
#87. We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture - if we are actually working on the right things.
David Perkins
#88. Love is great for us, but we don't always love who is great for us.
Jerry Springer
#89. One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Stella Adler
#90. Everybody likes to run around on their phones, including me, but we don't always want to hear who's sweating somewhere in some non-air-conditioned factory to create those things so that they can keep the prices down.
Billy Corgan
#91. We don't always choose our situation. But, we can always choose who we want to be in that situation.
Joan Pillen
#92. When people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.
Jodi Picoult
#93. We always know more than we think we do. The problem is we don't always know what we know.
Dori Hillestad Butler
#94. If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.
Jason Mraz
#95. We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.
Kate Jacobs
#96. Each one of us is made up of many different people. Who we want to be at any one time is up to us, no one else. We don't always have to play the same part.
Art Hochberg
#97. We all live and die for the stories and the sounds. Sometimes we find them, other times they just happen upon us. We don't always get a choice.
Bob Mould
#98. I guess we don't always know what other people are thinking, even if they seem to have everything figured out.
Zoe Sugg
#99. Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.
Cheryl Strayed
#100. It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.
Sara Sheridan
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