Non Quotes

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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo) — Epicurus
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. — John Gardner
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will… — Peter Kreeft
But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously.… — Laini Taylor
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the… — Mark Steyn
For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out… — Christopher Isherwood
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction. — Michael Crichton
You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square… — Erin Morgenstern
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity. — Deepak Chopra
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched… — David Levithan
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. — Malcolm X
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The… — William S. Burroughs
I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a… — Suzanne Collins
So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man. — Mindy Kaling
And what if in the future we're at war again, or we still haven't elected a non-white or non-male president, or the Rolling Stones are… — Jay Asher
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or… — Jon Krakauer
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? — Edward Abbey
I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there. — Taylor Swift
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's… — Mark Haddon
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle… — Peter Singer
To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them,… — Aldous Huxley
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded… — Neil Gaiman

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