Top 100 For Nothing Quotes
#1. Something I always try to practice is be anxious for nothing, but let your request be known to God.
Tim Tebow
#2. instrument for nothing, and she had wanted to learn to play it largely because
Dean Koontz
#3. We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader.
John Kasich
#4. Huguet, on the other hand, insisted that prosecutors settle for nothing less than a lengthy sentence at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge.
Jon Krakauer
#5. Last night, I killed a man. If I had to, I'd do it all over again. Afterwards I slept like a baby. There's a surprising amount of physical exertion in murder - they don't call it a dead weight for nothing.
A.E. Rawson
#6. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst ... They are for nothing but to inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#8. Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
William Arthur Ward
#9. I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.
Robbie Robertson
#10. For nothing worthy proving can be proven, nor yet disproven;
Anonymous
#11. There are only two ways out for animals at pounds
being adopted or being killed. And cats have such a low rate of adoption that many pounds, even in some larger cities, don't bother to take them in at all. Not for nothing is it always the "dog pound" and never the "cat pound.
Cleveland Amory
#12. It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level.
Nan Shepherd
#13. If you believe in nothing and stand up for nothing, you'll become and achieve nothing.
Gosho Aoyama
#14. The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
#15. Nothing will ever be gained for nothing. If we labour, we shall have our own opinion as well.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#16. Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.
Brittany Snow
#17. The more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.
Joe Abercrombie
#18. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?
Bill Gates
#19. We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#20. Governments institutionalize something for nothing.
James Cook
#21. Trust me... It's not called Wicked Pleasure for nothing. You won't be able to put it down once you start!!!
Scarlett Avery
#22. The multifaceted nature of the strong points of the enemy in this brutal warfare calls for nothing less than a global scale collaborative response that is stubbornly radical, yet humanely civil.
Ray Anyasi
#23. What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, the trouble of the world!
Victor Hugo
#24. I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#25. The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
Lyn Nofziger
#26. All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.
Philippa Gregory
#27. Being a "friend of sinners" is an accusation that Christians should wear as a badge of honor, for nothing could honor Jesus more, and nothing is more revealing of who God actually is.
Ronnie McBrayer
#28. I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree.
Ryan Howard
#29. There's the matter of picking the time. There's such a thing as the favorable moment. Determination alone counts for nothing.
Yukio Mishima
#30. Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose,
And safe from action, valiantly advise;
Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows,
And being good for nothing else, be wise.
John Wilmot
#31. The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#32. Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in life.
Haruki Murakami
#33. Inconstancy. - Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
Blaise Pascal
#34. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing
Virginia Woolf
#35. risks. Thus we take it for granted that, when a relationship to a special loved person is endangered, we are not only anxious but are usually angry as well. As responses to the risk of loss, anxiety and anger go hand in hand. It is not for nothing that they have the same etymological root.
John Bowlby
#36. In my opinion, a superior mind counts for nothing unless accompanied by a superior heart.
Sophie Hannah
#38. So eventually I instantly backed down and apologised for NOTHING. She was instantly fine - surprise, surprise.
Rae Earl
#39. I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.
Saint Patrick
#40. Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.
George Woodcock
#41. What a good-for-nothing-fellow Charles is to bespeak the stockings - I hope he will be too hot all the rest of his life for it! -
Jane Austen
#42. Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you
either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.
John Wayne
#43. The motor-car, in brining us all closer together, by making it easy to have luncheon two counties away, has driven us all further apart, by making it unnecessary for us to know the people in the next bungalow. And so, once again, we have to thank civilization for nothing.
Ronald Knox
#44. There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing. I have respect for them, but also for their wishes, or for the power of their wishes. Because they tried to change the stupid things in the world.
Gerhard Richter
#45. I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
Charles Dickens
#46. I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.
Howard Dietz
#47. It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.
Amy Carmichael
#48. Some people have a blissful heart; they are always happy for nothing.
Debasish Mridha
#51. I know is, one minute I'm ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next I can't wait to get away, I'm all over the place, slipping and sliding again.
Paula Hawkins
#52. Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them
we're Animorphs."
"Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked.
"Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said.
"Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay.
Katherine Applegate
#53. In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.
Theodore Roosevelt
#54. Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Jack Vance
#55. All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#57. The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
Isaac Asimov
#58. Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Adolf Hitler
#59. I want to set the record straight."
"The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read 1984? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your bare fanny for nothing.
David Eddings
#60. I intend to end the something for nothing culture
David Cameron
#61. As a precaution, Ruth had also gnawed over the worst possibilities - brain tumor, Alzheimer's, stroke - believing this would ensure that it was not these things. History had always proven that she worried for nothing.
Amy Tan
#62. These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This
Mary Shelley
#63. The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#64. Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra. Also the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
Kurt Vonnegut
#65. Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
Lionel Messi
#66. Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister - that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
Christopher Hitchens
#67. This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good ... for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for neighbors.
Saint John Chrysostom
#68. When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore De Balzac
#69. In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#70. The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
Thomas Jefferson
#71. This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.
Amy Johnson
#72. The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
George Eliot
#73. People are hungering for property - for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect or defend. It is humiliating to possess nothing, to own nothing, and hence to produce nothing and to count for nothing.
Louis O. Kelso
#74. His voice was hesitant and colourless, as in those who hope for nothing because it's perfectly useless to hope.
Fernando Pessoa
#75. Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
Douglas Coupland
#76. Desire nothing except desirelessness.
Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes.
Want nothing and you will have everything.
Meher Baba
#77. When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.
Charles Koch
#78. The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.
Even free things are never free.
The burden of ownership means everything has a price.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#79. And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
Roger Ebert
#80. I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.
Joseph Delaney
#81. The cigarette gets the credit for everything and the blame for nothing.
Allen Carr
#82. You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
Cesare Pavese
#83. (Later, Giddle's response when I told her I was in love: "Oh God, I'm so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it's so disappointing. But good luck with that.")
Rachel Kushner
#84. Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.
John Ridley
#85. Our goal is to be among the best nations worldwide because the Emirati people will settle for nothing less than the best.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#86. I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.
Amin Maalouf
#87. The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#88. We have been graced for a truly sweet surrender, if we can radically accept being radically accepted - for nothing! "Or grace would not be grace at all"! (Romans 11:6).
Richard Rohr
#89. I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!
Joel Osteen
#90. In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own.
Kevin Focke
#91. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."
Charles Darwin
#92. Santayana ... reasoned that the young men who were being killed in the war would die anyhow sooner or later, and would be good for nothing while they lived.
Bertrand Russell
#93. Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#94. No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
Honore De Balzac
#95. You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team
Patrick Dixon
#96. Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.
J.K. Rowling
#98. Mr S. got angry.
'Yes, I do have a son. He's a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.'
I couldn't ask which prison he was in, so I put it more tactfully: 'What is he doing?'
He sighed deeply: 'He's a professor of mathematics at London University.
George Mikes
#99. You're no longer fighting God, trying to make Him do what you want. You're accepting what happens, and your main prayer transforms into one that asks God for nothing more than understanding and perhaps strength to endure.
Amy Welborn
#100. Those who have truly seen Christ in His glory have eyes for nothing else.
A.W. Tozer
