Top 100 If Nothing Else Quotes
#1. Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not.
Karen Hawkins
#2. I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
Bjork
#3. Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.
Thomas Sowell
#4. Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
Laozi
#5. Just selfishly, I wanted to be associated with something as synonymous with cool and cutting edge and artistic as CBGB. People are aware of that, at least, even if nothing else. That's something to be proud of, to be a small part of the association with something like that.
Johnny Galecki
#6. Before I chose Dauntless ... I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.
Veronica Roth
#7. I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else.
Sebastien De Castell
#8. If nothing else, we today need a reminder that we must never take civilization for granted. I
Poul Anderson
#9. If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.
Alex Steffen
#10. If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.
Robert Murray McCheyne
#11. white-haired little old ladies (LOLs for short) are due a certain amount of respect, just on the basis of longevity, if nothing else,
J. A. Jance
#12. The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
Alexander Mackendrick
#13. I choose not to serve the Conglomerate as an ambassador, but that doesn't mean I've given up on humanity. Surrender isn't a word in my personal lexicon; there are other ways and means. If nothing else, Ithiss-Tor taught me there's always a choice.
Ann Aguirre
#14. When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.
Neil Patrick Harris
#15. I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
Eric Stoltz
#16. If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.
Jennifer DeLucy
#17. Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
Douglas Coupland
#18. I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.
Jonathan Carroll
#19. Then again, how could he expect Bela to be interested in marriage, given the example he and Gauri had given? They were a family of solitaries. They had collided and dispersed. This was her legacy. If nothing else, she had inherited that impulse from them.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#20. If nothing else, believe in art
Anonymous
#21. Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.
Marvin Harris
#22. Human beings are, if nothing else, dedicated to upholding their narrative of the way the world is supposed to be, whether or not that world ever truly existed.
Kameron Hurley
#23. And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))
Jason Mraz
#24. If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.
Sarah Dessen
#25. You will go far beyond what I have done - you can create - I can only build with the materials others have made. But we builders have our place - we can make temples for our gods and goddesses if nothing else.
L.M. Montgomery
#26. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
Sarah Dessen
#27. Except during outbreaks of vicious bigotry, it is difficult to persuade white America that the alienation of Black America is actual and ongoing, afflicting each generation through policy, custom, quack science, and if nothing else, the Look.
Theresa Perry
#28. If nothing else, I have money.
Bjork
#29. For thousands of years, violent men have been able to tell their victims that those victims owe them something. If nothing else, they "owe them their lives" (a telling phrase) because they haven't been killed.
David Graeber
#30. Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
Jesse James Garrett
#31. The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else - get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class - that's your life, and it's like that for a finite time, usually.
Anne-Marie Duff
#32. I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape ... . If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.
M. John Harrison
#33. I've always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.
Katarina Bivald
#34. Wherever she went, he went, and almost without exception, she chose the direction that promised the most peril. Darius shook his head, and the corners of his mouth curved upward. If nothing else, at least she was consistent.
Christine Grey
#35. If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.
Peyton Manning
#36. I am free. I am haunted. But if nothing else, I am wide awake.
Anna Sheehan
#37. Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft
Jack Vance
#38. Well, if nothing else, you are that rock. You can look at it and know that even though the elements can change your shape, you're still you at the core.
June Gray
#40. As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
Jackson Pollock
#41. Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.
Craig Ferguson
#42. If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.
Stephen Rodrick
#43. A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.
Lady Bird Johnson
#44. Friends can be useful. If nothing else, a friend is one less enemy.
Joe Abercrombie
#45. I feel like if you are with someone through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of love in one way or another.
Megan Fox
#46. The people of Ohio are not happy with what he's doing. I can tell you that. They're not happy with what [John Kasich] is doing. But the Republican Party more than any other thing has to have a victory, a presidential victory, for one thing, if nothing else: Supreme Court justices.
Donald Trump
#47. You can almost always find something in common with another person, and from there, it's much easier to address issues where you have differences. Sports cut across boundaries of race and wealth. And if nothing else, we all have the weather in common.
Randy Pausch
#48. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
Markus Zusak
#49. Today, if nothing else, at least I can incinerate these humans with fire from their internal combustion engines and appease your spirit with their screams.
Reki Kawahara
#50. Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you'll catch more flies, if nothing else.
Cassandra King
#51. Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.
Josh Billings
#52. Ronan laughed suddenly. That sound, as crooked and joyful and terrible as the dream in his hand, should have woken these cattle if nothing else did.
"I hear if you want magic done," he said, "you ask a magician.
Maggie Stiefvater
#53. Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you - and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.
Nick Offerman
#54. When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.
Muriel Siebert
#55. I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.
Ken Bruen
#56. If nothing else, life in the suburbs promised that you might go from day to day without finding shit in your hair.
David Sedaris
#57. If nothing else, I was a predator - and predators could sense fear.
Jus Accardo
#58. If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.
Liya Kebede
#59. When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
Deborah Levy
#60. What is without dispute ... is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them - to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.
Jasper Fforde
#61. They had a ... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.
Clive James
#62. Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes for you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your life.
Bill Bryson
#63. I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'
Willie Aames
#64. Thank you for watching over her, you piece of shit. Thanks for that, if nothing else." She backed away, repulsed by the thing that had once been a man, or had at least called itself a man.
Gary McMahon
#65. But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?
Malorie Blackman
#66. You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.
Warren Ellis
#67. If nothing else, races bring people together. Even if it is through a shared sense of helplessness and loss of dignity.
Dana L. Ayers
#68. But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
Susanna Kearsley
#69. [A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.
Paul Outerbridge
#70. If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago Law School for people that had Obama as their constitutional law professor.
Louie Gohmert
#71. Ric stared up at the lion siblings. How Lock hadn't killed them already, he didn't know. If nothing else, Ric would have had them ... managed by now. They'd be alive, but in Siberia.
Shelly Laurenston
#72. If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents by their young.
Jean Sasson
#73. I could go on, but I've decided for now that three examples will suffice. Three examples if nothing else, will give you the ashen taste in your mouth that defined my existence during that year.
Markus Zusak
#74. If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.
Iain Thomas
#75. If nothing else, Prophet prided himself on his ability to be irrational. Everyone was always raving about how being cool, calm, and collected was the best way to be. Prophet found the exact opposite worked most of the time. Tommy
S.E. Jakes
#76. Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh ... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.
Marvin Mudrick
#77. If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself ... Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.
Elisabeth Elliot
#78. God had saved his ass a couple times on the battlefield in their enlisted days. He owed the man, and if nothing else, Judge was a man of his word. "You're
A.E. Via
#79. From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
Eric Clapton
#80. But if true love carries any weight with you, you can be certain Miss Suellen will be rich in that if nothing else.
Margaret Mitchell
#81. I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.
Picabo Street
#82. I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now.
Lara Adrian
#83. Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.
Mary J. Miller
#84. You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can't erase the history that produced them.' Sara looked directly into his eyes. 'If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can't erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.
Haruki Murakami
#85. But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you.
Malorie Blackman
#86. Their hearts had been broken by the same man, only my mother's had long ago mended, and in an odd way, as my parents approached their old age, she and my father had grown fond of each other, out of habit if nothing else.
Anonymous
#87. The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
Johnny Thunders
#89. I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.
Wes Craven
#90. If nothing else, my analysis of George W.'s oratory style had taught me that a sincere countenance and a confident stance were sufficient to distract your audience from the fact that you were talking rubbish.
Colin Cotterill
#91. If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
Chuck Palahniuk
#92. If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.
Rita Dove
#93. You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Keith Sweat
#94. It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.
Criss Jami
#96. If nothing else, Malus Darkblade, you can be counted on to react to adversity with as much violence as physically possible- Tzarkan
Dan Abnett
#97. When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
Alanis Morissette
#98. When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes ... It's in bad taste if nothing else,
Anthony Bourdain
#99. I think I'm prouder of 'The Victim' than anything else, just because, if nothing else, it doesn't look silly, it doesn't look stupid. It holds up. It's fun. A lot of people have enjoyed it, and I'm real happy about it.
Michael Biehn
#100. Take a kid fishing; if nothing else, you'll capture their imagination.
Max Hawthorne
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