Top 1200 Opting Out Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

I could not have known Colin Campbell would turn out to be the debased, cruel monster he turned out to be.

When I came out in September 1994, I was, as far as I know, the only out lesbian in British public life.

And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.

I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

In this day and age, when there are so many people creating work online and writing their own shows, I wouldn't tell another actor, 'If you can do anything else go do that.' I would tell them to figure out the story they want to tell, to figure out what artists inspire you and why, and then figure out a way you can create that for yourself.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

I came out as a gay as I have earned myself respect as an athlete. I have only lost 2 out of 22 professional fights. I knocked out some of my opponents in the first round. But I never really received respect as a person. That's something I had come to realize over the past few years. The end of my boxing career is no longer that far off, and it was time for me to make peace with myself. And there was a second reason for me to come out: I hoped it would make me a better boxer.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

Who do you know, who could come out on a flying carpet? P. Diddy standing at the bottom, come out like a concert, dancing, oozing confidence, and then get in and take somebody out? Come on, do you know anybody in the history of the sport that did what Prince Naseem did? I ain't trying to brag, but I was bloody good at it.

You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

When I started out, I wasn't a big guy either. I got into bodybuilding just by working out, and starting a fascination with it.

Honestly, I don't need to diet or cut things out to stay fit because I work out a lot.

I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn't my fault.

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio, EQ-ing this kick drum, raising this snare one decibel, or swapping this high hat out for another. Then there's the other side who's a performer. I have to go out on stage and be electric, a fire cracker, just run around the stage and give a show.

I'm the kind of girl who just, like, rolls out of bed and puts my jeans on and shakes my hair out.

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

The clubs, that's easy to cut out, because I know when the season ends I can look forward to going out.

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

You notice that the Democrats are totally unified. I mean, you know they're dragging Algore back out? Algore is being dragged out of the Apple boardroom and wherever else he hangs out to go and rally Millennials on the premise that Millennials will respond to Algore's claim that we are destroying the planet and that he will get their attention.

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

Lil Wayne, he's always been different. Like, he don't care what it is, he just gon' go out and rock out.

You know, the world’s not running out of oil. There’s all kinds of oil left in all kinds of places. …We’re never going to run out of oil. But what the world is going to run out of, indeed, what the world has already run out of, is the oil you can afford to burn.

It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.

Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.

If motivation is an issue, I would try to get out of your house to work out, not just go into the basement.

Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.

I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out.

I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out

When I was in Turks & Caicos, a bug jumped out of my room service menu. That kind of freaked me out.

Over the years, I have really figured out what works for me. It's not about what anyone else is doing. I can't worry about whether I am doing everything that another player is doing, which can be hard sometimes. I have to trust my training and know my body and figure out what will get the best out of me.

There's no unicorns that pop out the ceiling and no glitter that pops out of my pocket. It's just regular people in the studio doing what we do.

In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it. Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

I think once you're in the friend zone, I'm not sure how you get out. Well, actually, I do know how you get out. You act like the friend back. That's how you get out.