The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
- Edward Snowden
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller 
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
In all things and in all ways,
choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
It bears repeating that even those things
which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.
- Anonymous
I'm not talking about lust.
A woman in lust wants chocolate.
A woman in love wants diamonds.
- the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The wine of youth does not always
clear with advancing years;
sometimes it grows turbid.
- Carl Jung
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
The rich are not born skeptical or cynical.
They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Paul Getty
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.
- Thomas Szasz
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Normal is not something to aspire to,
it's something to get away from.
- Jodie Foster
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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