We Re Not Quotes

#1. Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

Adrienne Rich

#2. We're not into music. We're into chaos.

Steve Jones

#3. When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.

Nancy Pelosi

#4. It's a mistake to act as though we're not created equal.
It's another mistake not to correct the first one.
Blaming others nurtures failure.
Helping others reaps a share of their success.

L. Anthony

#5. We're not about picking a mayor. We're about making a mayor, making the winner. And that's what we're gonna do ... . I talk to them (the mayoral candidates) constantly. All of them. I know all about all of their families. I know about their dogs and this and that.

Michael Mulgrew

#6. We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.

Rupert Murdoch

#7. You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

Rosario Dawson

#8. When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Dolly Parton

#9. We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.

Pete Carroll

#10. We're not gonna die We're not gonna die We're not gonna die, leading them in a chant, a mantra that was joyful and mock joyful at the same time because this is New York, New York and we want it both ways.

Don DeLillo

#11. We're not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous.

Red Army Faction

#12. Fuck, Katie. I'm not sleeping with you naked unless we're gonna fuck, and we're not gonna fuck while you're this drunk. Especially the first time.

Jaine Diamond

#13. Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Richard Levin

#14. It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We're not even scratching the surface of what we're capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!

Clifton Anderson

#15. It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

Craig Ferguson

#16. This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billion. We're not just looking into space, we're looking back through time. Our

Blake Crouch

#17. You cannot spend 2,000 years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore.

Martin Walser

#18. The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

#19. Thorne glanced back at the pantry. "Did you see any rice in there? Maybe we could fill Cinder's head with it." Everyone stared at him. "You know, to ... absorb the moisture, or something. Isn't that a thing?" "We're not pouring rice in my head.

Marissa Meyer

#20. What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#21. We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.

Laura Wiess

#22. Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes ... though we're not ready to let go.

Pam Tillis

#23. We're not exposed to a lot of guys.

Beyonce Knowles

#24. I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

Adrienne Bailon

#25. Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

Patricia Ireland

#26. Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

Mario Lemieux

#27. We're not bad. But we are morally inarticulate.

David Brooks

#28. I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

Kelly Rowland

#29. We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.

Greg Plitt

#30. We're not friends, Braden." I pulled his office door open.
"No. We're not.

Samantha Young

#31. We're fit, we're healthy, we eat right, we work out. 'Plus size model' does not mean that we're not healthy. Plus size is not glamourising obesity: it's about empowering. The message behind the fashion is feeling confident in whatever you're wearing.

Hayley Hasselhoff

#32. Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

Bruce Sterling

#33. Sure, we're physically bigger and we have more money, but they reckon we're not much smarter than animals. They call us water buffaloes or monitor lizards. There's no bigger insult than to say that a person is an animal, and that's what they think we are. We're

Stephen Leather

#34. I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

Ian MacKaye

#35. It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it.

Jerry Moss

#36. Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

Frederick Lenz

#37. As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

Jason Mraz

#38. I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?

Mindy Kaling

#39. Isn't it nice to discover that we're not exactly what we thought we were?

Julia Quinn

#40. We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

Condoleezza Rice

#41. I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age.

Ashley Ormon

#42. We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

Harry Connick Jr.

#43. We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

Bruce Johnston

#44. There's nothing wrong with your daughter, Mrs. McIntosh. I said we're not sleeping together. I didn't say I didn't want to.

Anna Banks

#45. Dear Grimm, we're not in Emerald anymore." I started to hyperventilate.

Rexi remained sprawled on her back. She barely opened an eye at my hysterics. "Duh.

Betsy Schow

#46. Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

Iyanla Vanzant

#47. I like the clubs because ... we have two or three acoustic guitars up there and we're not hard-core slamming or stomping through the music. We're singing it with intricate harmonies and really showing the craftsmanship.

Toby Keith

#48. There's nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we're not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

Ayn Rand

#49. What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are great at rocket science. We love rocket science. What we're not good at are the things that are so simple and basic that we overlook them.

Laura Gilpin

#50. If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for.

Jesse Ventura

#51. Daemons are brilliant, but we're not vicious - not like the vampires.

Deborah Harkness

#52. Each one of the films get built up and strengthened and reinforced, and we're not afraid to rip stuff out and redo it until we feel it's worthy of the 'Pixar' name.

Pete Docter

#53. How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

Birch Bayh

#54. If we're not naked soon, I'm going to lose my fucking mind.

Lisa Kessler

#55. Everybody slips up becaues we're not perfect; that's what mercy is for.

M.E. Thomas

#56. We're not only the ninety-nine percent, we're the assistants to the one percent. There's power in that." I

Camille Perri

#57. They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!

Bruce Sterling

#58. But sometimes we have to be brave in order to dig deep and find answers. Even if we're not sure we're going to like the answers.

Linda Francis Lee

#59. I do wish," said Lucy, "now that we're not thirsty, we could go on feeling as not-hungry as we did when we were thirsty.

C.S. Lewis

#60. That's the thing about introverts - we are always waiting to be invited to speak up about what matters to us. If the invitation comes too soon, we'll probably avoid the question, deflecting the focus to the other person. We might want to come closer, but we're not warmed up yet. We're

Michaela Chung

#61. We all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

Jack Kerouac

#62. We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.

Rhianna Pratchett

#63. 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

#64. So I wouldn't run too far, Freckles," Bash added, his voice a blend of frustration and determination. "Because we're not finished. Not by a fucking long shot.

Julie Johnson

#65. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

Mal Peet

#66. We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

Jeb Bush

#67. (Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us what to do. In fact, our government has decided that if al Qaeda attempts to disrupt our democratic process, we are going to respond by disrupting it first.

Jon Stewart

#68. The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

Grace Slick

#69. We're all going to get old one day. So let's just love the age we've got and let's not crave the age we're not. Amen, sing it to your mama.

Neil Pasricha

#70. It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Gabriel Byrne

#71. When we're not true to our thoughts and not true to the feelings we have deep inside, we find ourselves unhappy. Be courageous enough to align your life with your feelings, desires, and sense of purpose.

Steve Maraboli

#72. My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.

Charisma Carpenter

#73. I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

David Cameron

#74. We're not going to die. You're with me kiddo and it just happens I know a few survival skills."
"Oh yeah right. Like carrying your Visa Gold in case the restaurant doesn't accept American Express.

Janet Evanovich

#75. Some people say ... that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We're not very good at it though, are we?

Jane Goodall

#76. We're not arguing. We're discussing." "You're a lawyer; you don't know the difference. I'm arguing.

William Landay

#77. We're all ok, until the day we're not.

Sophie Monroe

#78. When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

Zoe Kazan

#79. Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.

Maya Tiwari

#80. We may all be a peculiar lot ... often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work ... but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

Vincent Price

#81. We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Laura Wade

#82. Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

Paul Ryan

#83. So what building are we breaking into? Give me all the information you've got and I'll hunt down the rest. By the way, when are we doing this?"
I glanced up. "Tonight."
Tonight? Oh, boy ... Miracles 'R' Us. I assume that we're not going to go and ask permission for this.

Kat Richardson

#84. We're so screwed. (Cassandra)
Yeah, well, I don't let anyone screw me until they kiss me, and since there's not even a snowball's chance in hell of me kissing that bastard, we're not screwed. (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#85. We're not testing it on primates. I want a human cohort of 50 ready to test." Chang

A.G. Riddle

#86. We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked.
-Urian

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#87. We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

Noel Gallagher

#88. The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.

Adrian Rogers

#89. After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.

Anna Netrebko

#90. We're not polishing fine china here.

Bill Belichick

#91. We're not friends, Mark," I reply sadly. "We're strangers with memories.

Kristen Proby

#92. Give us six hours, Sevro. If we're not back by then ... " "Wank off in the bushes?

Pierce Brown

#93. We all, one day, realize that we're not going to be kids forever and we're going to grow up.

Maggie Stiefvater

#94. The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast.

Michael Chertoff

#95. Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?

Cory Doctorow

#96. Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Cliff Burton

#97. I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.

Neal Shusterman

#98. We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

Gray Davis

#99. Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

Scott Hamilton

#100. Relax," the girl says. She holds out a hand but doesn't touch me. "We're not going to hurt you."
"Yet," the man in the doorway says with a smirk.

Amy Engel