Top 100 You Don't Get Quotes
#1. The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out.
Anne Tyler
#2. The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.
Bill Nye
#3. You see? This is why you don't get mixed up in people's lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.
Megan Crewe
#4. Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
Campbell Scott
#5. Maybe friendship can't begin until someone chooses you. But ... that doesn't mean you don't get to make a choice too. You can't do that ... unless you know who they are. And they can't choose you ... until they know who you are.
Miyoshi Toumori
#6. I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.
Deirdre O'Kane
#7. If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
Dan Millman
#8. Mind you, you don't get albums written about really good people like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, do you? Good people's places in Heaven may be assured, but nobody's going to have a chart-topping album full of songs about someone's good deeds.
Mitch Winehouse
#9. I really do like the independent way of working. You don't get much studio intrusion compared to when you're working on a big Hollywood film where there tends to always be loads of people interfering. The only problem, though, with independent features is that they are hard to sell.
Steven Bauer
#10. I long for an audience. I ache for it. I think that's one of the hardest things about the television medium is that you don't get that. You don't get that immediate response.
Bridget Regan
#11. I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
Candy Crowley
#12. You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
Neil Gaiman
#13. And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
Diana Wynne Jones
#14. You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.
Twyla Tharp
#15. Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.
Lesley Gore
#16. She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her.
John Green
#17. I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.
Bryan Greenberg
#18. I have to admit I'm not real sure you being equipped to scrape her off at the drop of a hat fills me with joy."
"I get that, Tab. What you don't get is, she isn't you.
Kristen Ashley
#19. And that was that. You don't get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#20. You don't have to sleep with guys," I whispered, "to make them like you."
Kya stared at me for a moment with heavy eyelids. "You don't get it, do you, Gracie? I sleep with them so they won't like me." My heart broke for her a little more.
Janet Gurtler
#21. You're mine, Regan Porter. You don't get to decide if you die or not. Because if you do, you're destroying me, too.
Jessica Clare
#22. I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.
Jon Tester
#23. There's no such thing as a normal highschool experience, Thorny. You assume everyone else is happy all he time and living an ideal life. You don't get that other people are pretending too.
Chelsea Sedoti
#24. You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.
Sebastian Stan
#25. You don't get to a place by constantly moving, even if your journey is only one of sitting still and waiting. Every once in a while you have to stop your tracks and admire the view, a small cloud an a tree outside your window
Rachel Joyce
#26. I understand that there are a few roles out there and tons of actors. Just because you don't get the big break doesn't mean you're not worthy or that what you have to offer isn't valid.
Grace Gealey
#27. I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#28. It's okay as long as you don't get caught." If there is no dishonor, it is not wrong.
Nabeel Qureshi
#29. Life ain't easy and you don't get do over's so live it out loud with gusto.
Cree Nations
#30. If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose,
If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you,
If you don't get drunk on my kiss,
If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done.
Let's not drag this on,
Consider me gone ...
Reba McEntire
#31. You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.
Elize Amornette
#32. You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.
Eva Longoria
#33. You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon.
-Batman
Frank Miller
#34. I'm always aware of trying to put my body in different positions to test it and strengthen muscles that you don't get when you do dumbbell press or pulls or weight-type exercises.
Adrian Peterson
#35. Here's how this goes. No Guardians. I don't trust any of them, including you. You can have as much ice cream as you want. I doubt I'll stop ordering you around." He turned his face away and put his lips to her ear. "And you don't get your own bedroom. You sleep here. With me.
Larissa Ione
#36. You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
Bruce Sterling
#37. People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
Aasif Mandvi
#38. You don't get hurt running straight ahead ... three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.
Woody Hayes
#39. You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
Mark Lanegan
#40. I missed you," he says. "A lot. And screw it if I'm not supposed to admit that, but I tried the whole alpha-male thing for two seconds and I just can't do it. So you don't get alpha-Ben today. I'm sorry.
Colleen Hoover
#41. You don't get people to follow you by demanding it with your words. You do it by commanding it with your example.
Marcus Luttrell
#42. You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.
Larry Kramer
#43. You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
S.E. Hinton
#44. Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong.
Nirmala Srivastava
#45. When we score a sublime goal I'm as happy as anyone but you don't get to enjoy a game. You can't possibly. The game's too important to enjoy.
Fergus McCann
#46. When you're breastfeeding, you don't get juicy down there. The juice isn't loose.
Kourtney Kardashian
#47. You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and speed anywhere other than Indy Car, and I think that's why it has remained a popular choice for so many young drivers.
Charlie Kimball
#48. I believe in, "You don't ask, you don't get.
Carla Harris
#49. You don't get it, do you? This isn't 'good cop, bad cop.' This is fag and New Yorker. You're in a lot of trouble.
Shane Black
#50. You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
B. Wayne Hughes
#51. That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.
Richard M. Daley
#52. I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles
Jim Butcher
#53. Living in France means I see the UK in snapshots. There is something quite nice about being in exile and the things you remember about places tend to be the most vivid details. You don't get that when you see somewhere every day.
Jonathan Trigell
#54. Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
John Irving
#55. You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn
#56. When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.
Stephen Baldwin
#57. If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.
Stefan Molyneux
#58. Sound comes to us over time. You don't get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.
Gary Rydstrom
#59. Mr. Dearly wasn't exactly handsome but he had the kind of face you don't get tired of.
Dodie Smith
#60. Grief:" You don't get over it you just get through it you don't get by it because you can't get around it it doesn't "get better" it just gets different every day . . . grief puts on a new face.
Brook Noel
#61. If you do not like people, you will not take the time to get to know them, and if you don't get to know them, you will have no idea what scares them, what inspires them, what motivates them.
Bo Schembechler
#62. A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual frustration? If you don't get laid soon, you will literally close up. More importantly, you will shrivel. And you will become bitter.
Helen Fielding
#63. You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.
Troy Dumais
#64. Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.
Andy Rooney
#65. Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.
Jim McKelvey
#66. If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
Peter Maxwell Davies
#67. I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.
Sarah Waters
#68. In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
Susan Sontag
#69. You don't get a choice in who you love, because often when you realize that you're in love, it's far too late to choose.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#70. You don't get to be world champion unless you do that ...
Conor McGregor
#71. When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
Erik Erikson
#72. With GG, you don't get what you expect. You get what you deserve.
GG Allin
#73. Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"
Frederick Lenz
#74. You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum
#75. Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.
John Sununu
#76. You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
Greg Kinnear
#78. My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.
Andy Serkis
#79. I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored.
Louis C.K.
#80. No. You don't get to call me Izzy, you don't send me letters, you don't follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats."
"Trust me, we see a rat, it's every man for himself.
Cassandra Clare
#81. If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.
Colm Keaveney
#82. Everything that will happen will happen ... and if you don't get to see it.. It will be because we didn't live long enough
Jose Saramago
#83. You don't get it, do you? [ ... ] We're going to be together for a long time. There's no need to rush things when you know that.
Jillian Dodd
#84. You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.
Matt LeBlanc
#85. My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth or tenth novel published, if you keep going you'll make it. Also read "how to write" books as they may make the process a bit quicker.
Katie Fforde
#86. Osama bin Laden has hired 10 look-alikes. Now, how hard up do you have to be before you take that job? There's no way to win! If Osama dies, you don't get paid. If you're found, you get killed.
Jay Leno
#87. You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.
David Ortiz
#88. Master Nolan - Being angry at a sub because a scene goes bad or you don't get the response you want isn't the mark of a good Dom. And insulting a woman for any reason is the mark of an asshole.
Cherise Sinclair
#89. Sometimes people think success comes over night. There is no such thing, anyone you ever see that is successful has worked at it and if they do it well and calculate it just right they will make it look easy. Life is no fun if you don't get a few bumps and bruises along the way.
Tyler Shields
#90. The LP actress Linda Hunt once wrote, 'Dwarfism, after all, isn't like cancer or heart disease. It isn't fatal, and it isn't even an illness. It is physical, though, and inescapable. You don't get over it. It is you. But you aren't it, and that's an important distinction.
Andrew Solomon
#91. You don't get it? He poisonded me! He poisonded me, and you're next. I'm going to die. We're all going to die.
-Seth
Brandon Mull
#92. When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can't be so, you don't get demons our side of the river, the guards won't let them over London Bridge.
Hilary Mantel
#93. Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.
Warren Buffett
#94. You don't get any five shillings out of me.' 'Oh, all right.' He sat silent for a space. 'Things happen to guys that don't kick in their protection money,' he said dreamily.
P.G. Wodehouse
#95. When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
Horton Foote
#96. I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.
Andrea Martin
#97. I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.
Sidney Crosby
#98. First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them.
Angelina Jolie
#99. You don't get that many people in your life that you can just tell anything to.
Lauren Conrad
#100. A few years ago, honesty was the hallmark of a man of good character. But it's been set aside for an "It's all right if you don't get caught" philosophy.
Billy Graham
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