Top 100 You Don't Quotes
#1. It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.
Kirstie Alley
#2. You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#3. On the weekend, I have a gym in my community. I try to do cardio. You just turn on some junk TV, and you don't realize what you're doing, and I love that.
Khloe Kardashian
#4. You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
Ray Bradbury
#5. If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.
Tim Gunn
#6. Hairdressers don't judge you. They pretty much accept everything because they've heard everything. They're on your side, like a cheerleader, and there's no competition. They don't want to be you, and you don't want to be them.
Jennifer Flavin
#7. You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love
or mercy, do you?"
"I haven't seen enough to form an opinion."
"But you believe in the devil?"
"When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.
Anne Stuart
#8. Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
Adrienne Rich
#9. Love is ... you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.
Elizabeth Scott
#10. You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#11. I don't think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don't eat.
Allison Tolman
#12. If you have a beautiful face you don't need fake boobs to get anyone's attention
Paris Hilton
#13. You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.
Tori Amos
#14. The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.
Elizabeth Scott
#15. I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
Jello Biafra
#16. You'll strip in front of a vampire when you don't even know his name?"
"You're right! So what's your name?"
"My answer will be as forthcoming as yours. What do you want it to be?"
"Some kind of name that fits a battle-scarred,overgrown vampire warlord.
Kresley Cole
#17. You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.
Alex Turner
#18. I'll call you," he repeated.
"If you call me, I won't pick up the phone."
"You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.
Ilona Andrews
#19. The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
Wayne W. Dyer
#20. It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
Gustavo Santaolalla
#21. I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?
Tori Amos
#22. I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.
Anne Roiphe
#23. You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.
Ruth Bernhard
#24. Once you understand love, you don't need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don't need a reward for breathing.
Vironika Tugaleva
#25. Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.
Richard Clarke Cabot
#26. Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.
Neil Gaiman
#27. The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?
Dada Bhagwan
#28. You don't judge me, you don't try and make it better. You just let me feel bad while making me feel really good . . . I want to do that for you, too.
Jay Crownover
#29. Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
Steven Bochco
#30. You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even know if the thing you're wishing for is possible? You don't even know if it could happen? And it's all out of your control?
Anthony Doerr
#31. You're not my first. You don't deserve that category. Being first means others will come after you-that we will eventually end. And we don't. You're my last, because you never left.
B. Stevens
#32. If you don't like the truth, then don't make it the truth.
J.W. Snootz
#33. The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.
Andy Lane
#35. The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. - ANONYMOUS
Laura Ruby
#36. It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.
Peter Jacobson
#37. I was too scared to open my eyes. It was the logic of a child; if you don't open your eyes, the monster won't see you.
Kathleen Peacock
#38. If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow ... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.
Madeline Hunter
#39. When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.
Billy Idol
#40. I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.
Colum McCann
#41. [Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again.
[Mark] What does 'c-word' mean?
[Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.
Pat Cadigan
#42. You don't put your life into books. You find it there.
Alan Bennett
#43. Showing respect for others when they don't agree with you, and during the times when you don't agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully.
Ellen J. Barrier
#44. When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.
Saulo Ribeiro
#45. Is it colour?'
'Oh yes.'
'You don't let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.
Christopher Brookmyre
#46. Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.
Nelson Mandela
#47. You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant
Mark Andrus
#48. I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?
Vince Gironda
#49. Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you?
Lionel Suggs
#50. Remember when I said that you don't tell your girls too much about your man? Well, when I got home I TOLD!!
Pepper Pace
#51. When you're confident in what you bring to the table, you don't have to chase and beg anyone to sit down and eat.
Stephan Labossiere
#52. I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
Joan Smalls
#53. You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing
Brian Eno
#54. Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it
Judit Polgar
#55. You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
Rachel Nichols
#56. Education is as much about learning what you don't know as it is about adding to what you do.
David McRaney
#57. Sometimes you don't choose greatness, it chooses you. And when it does, it requires a certain level of understandin', courage and a degree of blind hope.
Jay Grewal
#58. You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
Cesar Chavez
#59. It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.
Alex Flinn
#60. You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
Bobby Seale
#61. I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for Q&A panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if you don't, who cares?
Jason David Frank
#62. If you don't want to be a side piece, or a friend with benefits, don't settle for that from any man.
Kristen Proby
#63. It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.
John Lennon
#64. You don't have to be naked to look naked. You just have to think naked.
Gypsy Rose Lee
#65. Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.
Kim Wilde
#66. Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.
Robert C. Martin
#67. Good. We're done." Wrath shook his head ruefully. "And shit, you think you have problems? At least you don't have to go back home with that." As
J.R. Ward
#68. For all the clever jokes that could be made here involving "mind" and "matter" there is one sure and certain variation you can take with you to the grave: "In the grand scheme of things you don't matter very much, and the laws of physics don't mind at all.
Patrick E. McLean
#69. If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
Nipsey Hussle
#70. You are fearless not because you don't have fears but because you choose to live above them. Faith is a choice!
Jessica Landmon
#71. When you don't have much, you hold on to what matters. You hold on with both hands.
Suzanne Young
#72. you Don't want what I'M ready to dish out
Sylvia Day
#73. You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
Seth Godin
#74. If you don't want vows to materialize in your next life; don't take them!
Lizelle DuPlessis
#75. You don't become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many day, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.
John L. Parker Jr.
#76. Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure
put a period to
those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing ... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.
Iyanla Vanzant
#77. Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit.
Robert Ferrigno
#78. I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
Eddie Griffin
#79. When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.
Kabir Sehgal
#80. If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.
Charles Koch
#81. He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
Gene Mauch
#82. What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.
Bill Johnson
#83. It's hard to tell these days what gender people are. You don't know if they're gay, if they're straight, or Bruce Jenner.
Chelsea Handler
#84. There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.
Ron Cooper
#85. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
#86. People may advice you, guide you and evaluate what you do, but bear in mind they can't think for you. You don't blame people for not thinking for you; blame yourself for depending on them to do what you must do.
Israelmore Ayivor
#87. Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.
Kevin Harvick
#88. I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#89. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.
George R R Martin
#90. I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.
Lizzy Caplan
#91. You have to direct change; if you don't do so, change will direct you. Guess ... the direction change will offer you is not a comfortable one. But the direction you can offer change will be the most comfortable. Go, make a change now!
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. You shouldn't talk about things you don't understand. Which should leave you pretty damn quiet.
Rachel Vincent
#93. I know why you did. That's what I want for you...to have the things you deserve. I want you to have that, and not feel guilty about how you got it. You told me the truth. You don't have to give me poetry to ease the blow.
Alexandra Bracken
#94. But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.
Mark Haddon
#96. You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.
Walter Lippmann
#97. Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.
Susan Minot
#98. You don't think about it that often, but you don't realize how many of your friends have come and gone. It makes you feel very fortunate.
Trevor McNevan
#99. How come you don't have a phone?" Rob shrugged. "Ain't got nobody to call,
Kate DiCamillo
#100. London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."
Nick Lowe
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