Top 39 Gets You Nowhere Quotes
#1. Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#2. I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.
Danny Brown
#3. Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.
Martin O'Neill
#4. Depression gets you nowhere but tangled in an overgrown garden that can choke the life out of you.
Karen Marie Moning
#5. You scared of your old lady, Ripper?" ...
"Fuck you," he shot back. "I ain't scared of shit except havin' nowhere to put my dick when it gets cold and sad and wants a motherfuckin' hug.
Madeline Sheehan
#6. It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.
Terry Mosher
#7. We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.
Richard Simmons
#8. If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
William S. Burroughs
#9. Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
Katie Dale
#10. If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.
William C. Brown
#12. Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere.
Mies Van Der Rohe
#13. What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.
Glenn Greenwald
#14. Do what you love even if it gets you nowhere.
Marty Rubin
#15. I think guys are afraid of being too straightforward, so sometimes being coy gets you nowhere.
Holly Carpenter
#16. The best gifts in life are the memories of love that we have given away.
Debasish Mridha
#17. In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain
Pliny The Elder
#18. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Glenn Turner
#19. Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.
Rupert Graves
#20. worrying gets you nowhere
Trinity
#22. Seeing through people is so easy, and it gets you nowhere,' remarked Elias Canetti, suggesting how effortlessly and yet how uselessly we can find fault with others.
Alain De Botton
#23. She drifted towards the bedroom, on her way to have a bath or take a nap or start a war.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. Let us change the tense for convenience.
Mark Twain
#25. It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
A.A. Milne
#26. Sir, can you hear me?" Another cry. But this time, a voice I don't detest.
"Sire, please, can you hear me-"
"I've been shot, Delalieu," I manage to say. I open my eyes. Look into his watery ones. "I haven't gone deaf.
Tahereh Mafi
#27. Focusing on what you don't want instead of focusing on what do want gets you nowhere. Negativity makes a horrible motivator. Decide what you want and move in that direction.
Steve Maraboli
#28. Ibiza, if you've never been there before, is very overwhelming. It's like nowhere on earth. The best advice is to sleep as late as possible because nothing gets going until around 3am and it goes until like 7 or 8.
Paris Hilton
#29. Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
Etty Hillesum
#30. ISA43.18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. ISA43.19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Anonymous
#31. Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
Seth Godin
#32. The king should act with promptitude, for without promptitude of action mere destiny never accomplishes the objects cherished by kings. The question for whether it is the king that makes the age or the age that makes the king, the king should entertain no doubt. It is the king that makes the age.
Meera Uberoi
#33. I'm mad at you because I love you, not because I want you dead.
Tate Hallaway
#34. I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.
Billy Collins
#35. Realizing that one does not have to worry about what will happen, that the future is in God's hands, is liberating.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#36. I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.
Alice Cooper
#37. Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy.
Rita Dove
#39. You see, people don't really listen anymore, no... they just sit around waiting for everyone else to shut up, waiting until it's finally their turn to talk. Back and forth, an endless cycle that gets us nowhere, because nobody really gives a shit about what's being said.
J.M. Darhower
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