N Quotes
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“Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm trapped inside of myself. Like if I don't talk or yell or scream or laugh I'm going to explode. A lot of the time it almost feels like I'm suffocating.”
Source: What I Didn't Say
“Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.”
Source: Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy
“Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.”
Source: Midsummer Snowballs
“Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.”
“Not being afraid of the Other can help move one to a more expanded state of consciousness.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.”
“Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.”
“Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.”
“Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.”
“Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.”
“Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE.”
“Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.”
“Not being boring is quite a challenge.”
“Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.”
“Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.”
“Not being credited on the album did not mean you were not getting credit and building your resume. The producers, studios, and labels were quick to learn about and keep names on files of those that could handle the work and keep their mouths shut.”
“Not being eaten is an unqualified good.”
Source: How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages
“Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.”
“Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.”
Source: Fraud: Essays
“Not being happy really is my fear.”
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.”
“Not being in the present moment is like not paying attention to someone you are with, because you are thinking about someone else with whom you were; or will, could, or should be; or could or should have been.”
“Not being in the present moment is no less foolish than looking forward to the past.”
“Not being in the present moment is so adultish.”
“Not being in touch with your vulnerability and not learning to own it and accept it and be comfortable with it leaves you in a position where you're liable to look at and judge other people for being vulnerable because they're reflecting that part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.”
“Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.”
“Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.”
Source: The Muslim Discovery of Europe
“Not being intimidated has the power to intimidate.”
“Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the “suspicious behavior” bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with “stupidly overpowerful dog” and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-expenses-paid visit to your local police station.”
Source: Whispers Under Ground
“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”
“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”
“Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.”
“Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.”
Source: Reason to Breathe
“Not being "okay," is a gift. And inside that gift, is the strength to change and the courage to begin again.”
“Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.”
Source: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp
“Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.”
“Not being perfect hurts.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Not being perfect is all it takes ‘cause we’re perfect
Nothing can make the standard, show us some respect
Not being perfect is all it takes ‘cause we’re perfect
Love me the way I am”
“Not being perfect is for people who have families; you can screw up and they still keep you.”
Source: What I Carry
“Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.”
“Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.”
“Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.”
“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”
Source: The Privilege of the Sword
“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
Source: Status Anxiety
“Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction”
“Not being well-paid is even more painful to those who are obliged to come to work well-dressed.”
“Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.”