Top 100 Done Nothing Quotes
#1. I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.
Joe Budden
#2. State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
Ludwig Von Mises
#3. It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me ... I have done nothing in that direction since.
John Tenniel
#4. Nobody should be alone," Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.
Becky Chambers
#5. America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Daniel Webster
#6. They're inventive, I'll grant you. But what I meant was ... I mean ... they've done nothing to deserve it."
"Deserve? They're human. What's deserve got to do with it?
Terry Pratchett
#7. This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.
Chris Christie
#8. Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. I seem to be ready for work, my materials are collected, yet the work doesn't get done! Nothing is done!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander.
Father.
Gail Carson Levine
#11. A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
Thomas Carlyle
#12. I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.
Coolio
#13. If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.
William Stone
#14. By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.
Paul Krugman
#15. You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.
Bob Dylan
#16. It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.
Patrick Ewing
#17. Rules, guidelines, and even laws are someone's opinion about how things should be done. Nothing more.
Johnny B. Truant
#18. Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
Thomas Sowell
#19. My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me
Kim Soo-hyun
#20. With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing - for she had done mischief.
Jane Austen
#21. You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.
Rumi
#22. Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
Augustus William Hare
#23. There was a great deal of skill in her smile, a smile meant to make a boy who had done nothing with his life make him feel accomplis and remarkable-vile even.
Sherry Thomas
#24. How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?" How could someone like him have the slightest clue what it felt like to be me? I felt almost cross with him for willfully not getting it. "Go on. Open
Jojo Moyes
#25. To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?
Victor Hugo
#26. As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.
Murray Kempton
#27. We are all here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. Of that I am sure. The human condition in an exploding universe would not have been altered one iota if, rather than live as I have, I had done nothing but carry a rubber ice-cream cone from closet to closet for sixty years.
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.
Edward Snowden
#29. Hoping never done nothing. It wanting that do it. You got to want to win so bad you can taste it. If you want to win bad enough you win.
Leonard Gardner
#30. Here's Coleridge, in 1804, when he turned thirty-two: 'Yesterday was my Birth Day. So completely has a whole year passed, with scarcely the fruits of a month. - O Sorrow and Shame ... I have done nothing!
Anthony Doerr
#31. Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
Samuel Johnson
#32. The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.
Jeb Bush
#33. We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance ... all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.
Marissa Meyer
#34. People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered.
James Lee Burke
#35. Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?
Horace Bushnell
#36. If a gurl understands your bullshit, stcks through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for, It'z obvious she's a keeper but itz also obvious dont deserve her either
Saeed Jones
#37. My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
Brennan Manning
#38. I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
Arthur Balfour
#39. We've done nothing to earn His love and can do nothing to forfeit it. His love in Christ is eternal and unconditional. Nothing can separate us from His love, as the apostle Paul put it so eloquently. Do we really believe what Paul says to us here?
Jerry Bridges
#40. I hated my mother who had gone without telling me, I hated my father who had done nothing to stop her, I hated God because he had willed such a thing to happen, and I hated my grandfather because he thought it normal for God to will such things.
Umberto Eco
#41. I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.
Kevin Pietersen
#42. A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense ...
Laetitia Pilkington
#43. ....he has done nothing but prove to me that not only is he a good man, he's a man madly in love with my daughter, and will do anything to protect her.
Sam Crescent
#44. He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.
Jane Austen
#45. Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.
Stephen Richards
#46. I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.
Lauryn Hill
#47. In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.
Michael Bloomberg
#48. The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.
Gerald L. Sittser
#49. On reflecting at dinner that he had done nothing to help anybody all day, he uttered these memorable and praiseworthy words: Friends, I have lost a day.
Suetonius
#50. In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Martha Beck
#51. He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.
Robert Graves
#52. And it came out that this King Arthur and his knights had done nothing of real note but to kill innocent dragons all around Britain: almost certainly a pack of lies, as Forthing admitted they had not possessed even any guns at the time, and unpleasant lies at that.
Naomi Novik
#53. It seemed as if the colours of the real world around me had begun to drain away from my having done nothing more than read a few lines she had written.
Haruki Murakami
#54. You got potential, Kip.
And you know what potential means? he replied.
Ain't done nothing yet.
Brent Weeks
#55. I'm not staying Archer, I can't trust you not to hurt me again if it serves whatever purposes you decide to come up with that day. I want nothing more to do with you ... with any of you. I'm done with vampires. You all have done nothing but bring me pain since I met you.
J.L. McCoy
#57. Had the advancement of medicine, then, done nothing more than to expose, subdivide, and further complicate the problems faced by the human species?
Haruki Murakami
#58. Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good
Dennis Prager
#59. My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.
Peggy Guggenheim
#60. For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
Meat Loaf
#61. You're the most terrible snob, Clark." "What? Me?" "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.'" "But I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?" How
Jojo Moyes
#62. Remember you've done nothing wrong. You aren't responsible for what has happened, but you will be responsible for what may happen if you don't trust your parents to help. [said Craig]
Sarah Richards
#63. She glanced over at the twisted wreckage of the chair - (a nice, Swedish chair that had done nothing in its short life to hurt anyone
Sylvain Reynard
#64. I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly.
"Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you."
"Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.
Claudia Gray
#65. It's not that I'm angry;
You've done nothing wrong.
I'm just not sure why I'm staying
When you're already gone.
Margo T. Rose
#66. Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.
John Huston
#67. For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
Voltaire
#68. I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.
Chuck Klosterman
#69. I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Francis Walsingham
#70. The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#71. Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
John Wyndham
#72. O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.
Arsenius The Great
#73. India needs a change - it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it.
Arjun Rampal
#74. When Jesus sees a heart that can't wait, He cant wait either. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus may have done nothing if it wasn't for Mary's faith. How many situations are we in now that God won't act without our faith?
Reinhard Bonnke
#75. Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
Honore De Balzac
#76. You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person'"
"But, I'm not."
"How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?
Jojo Moyes
#77. It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long time in the same place,
Edward St. Aubyn
#78. I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]
Marcus Samuelsson
#79. Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.
Saint John Chrysostom
#80. It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hundred other tasks, but neglected to accomplish the task for which you were sent, it would be as though you had done nothing.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#81. The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing
if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
#82. In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
Norman Spinrad
#83. I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting.
Colleen Hoover
#84. It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#85. [He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.
Edmond De Goncourt
#86. For in general mortals have a great power of being astonished at the presence of an effect toward which they have done everything, and at the absence of an effect toward which they had done nothing but desire it.
George Eliot
#87. Since the day I'd left Yoroido, I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me.
Arthur Golden
#88. You know how important trust is to me, yet you've done nothing but deceive me.
Sherry Gammon
#89. Should I feel better if I were to vomit?' asked Jagiello. 'I doubt it,' said Stephen. 'It has done nothing for the Colonel.
Patrick O'Brian
#90. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Homer
#91. Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.
Philippa Gregory
#92. The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.
Daniel Goleman
#93. You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
Yehuda Berg
#94. I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift
to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it.
Emm Cole
#95. It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.
Tea Obreht
#96. I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
Heath Ledger
#97. I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
Jane Austen
#99. You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.
Dave Eggers
#100. One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
Sir Arthur Sullivan
