Top 100 No Good Quotes
#1. A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.
Sarah Thompson
#2. And what hast thou gained by the government?" asked Ricote. "I have gained," said Sancho, "the knowledge that I am no good for governing,
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#3. For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
Tom Stoppard
#4. He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James.
"No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader.
George Eliot
#5. Problems don't always get fixed. Lots of the time things are boring or dumb for no good reason. Or even terrible. And you can't do anything about it. That's life.
Laurel Snyder
#6. There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
William Blake
#7. Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
Charles E. Wilson
#8. Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass. Time doesn't go backward. That's the one real blessing. It happened; it does you no good to worry. Keep it movin'.
Jesse L. Martin
#9. I suppose there's no good answer to that, Danny. I wish there was. But if you take the wrong, path, something deep inside you will feel twisted. There are times when that will be the only way to know the right from the wrong.
Inara Scott
#10. Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#11. My greatest successes came from decisions I made when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right. Even if there was no good explanation for what I did." He smiled wistfully. "Even if there were very good reasons for me not to do what I did." Bast
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
John Lydon
#13. Just so you know, I'm gonna kiss you now. You're gonna protest, and I'm tellin' you right fuckin' now it'll do no good.
C.P. Smith
#14. Make today the BEST day of your life, because there is no good reason not to.
Hal Elrod
#15. Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#16. To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
Jane Austen
#17. Why was the salt of wisdom no good to him?
Henri Cole
#18. But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this.
Sarah Addison Allen
#19. America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
Bill Frist
#20. That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off ... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.
Iain Banks
#21. That hope never left us, and it sustained us in the years to come, despite the fact that we had no good reason to expect our situation to improve.
Thomas Buergenthal
#22. And then he knew that war is no good, because vanquishing a man is as bitter as being vanquished.
Albert Camus
#23. I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.
Hugh Jackman
#24. It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#26. The only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
Clare Boothe Luce
#27. If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
#28. I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work.
George Harrison
#29. A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.
Russell D. Moore
#30. You are good," I say.
"No I'm not. I'm not I'm not. I'm not," she says. "I'm no good."
And then, softly to herself: "Am I?
Charles Yu
#31. It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain De Botton
#32. You know your girls up to no good when her and her friends make a pact to post nothing on Instagram.
Dane Cook
#33. No good can ever come from deviating from the path that you were meant to follow
Robert Greene
#34. There are no good or bad people in this world; only choices.
David Seller
#35. It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
Gail Carriger
#36. You can take Psalm 84:11 to the bank: No good thing does God withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Mark Batterson
#37. A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.
Lee Kuan Yew
#38. There are no good answers for such tragedies and you'll drive yourself mad if you try to find what isn't there.
Matthew Quick
#39. We fight not for glory nor for wealth nor honours; but only and alone we fight for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life.
Bernard De Linton
#40. Don't worry, she deserved it anyway. She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic.
Xiaolu Guo
#41. I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.
William T. Vollmann
#42. There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
Frederick Lenz
#43. Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.
David Helvarg
#44. They are ruby-colored, aren't they?" he said. "Well, they're red," said Magrat. "Is red all right?" "They've got to be red." All the other dwarfs nodded. "It's no good if they're not red." Magrat gave him a blank look and shut the door.
Terry Pratchett
#45. Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
Andrew Taylor Still
#46. There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules.
Anthony Doerr
#47. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we come to spiritual experience.
Paulo Coelho
#48. If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.
Virchand Gandhi
#49. It still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
Jane Smiley
#50. No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
Mark Helprin
#51. No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Roger Ebert
#52. We ought to love children, as my friend Deborah says, 'for no good reason.' Furthermore, what counts is not that we believe we love them unconditionally, but that they feel loved in that way.
Alfie Kohn
#53. I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.
Charles M. Schulz
#54. Unnatural silence signifies no good.
Sophocles
#55. I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.
Chris Pratt
#56. Sometimes we get off course, desiring things or setting goals that will lead to no good end. But if our desire is in the right place, loving Jesus and loving others, there is no telling where Jesus can take us.
Richard Foth
#57. I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
Levon Helm
#58. I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.
Neil Peart
#59. Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!
Swami Vivekananda
#60. They'd put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good.
Cormac McCarthy
#61. Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
Samuel Beckett
#62. Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
P.G. Wodehouse
#63. Live! It's no good if you just think about it.
Marty Rubin
#64. In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].
Paul Reiser
#66. I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.
Bob Saget
#67. There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.
Ann Coulter
#68. No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.
John Chrysostom
#69. There is bad in good and there is no good in bad.
Zaman Ali
#70. There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. It does no good to bark at the television,
I said. I've tried it too. So he stopped.
Mary Oliver
#72. If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries."
Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with boundaries."
"Yes, and the ocean is damp. Can we be done with
the understatements now?
Rachel Vincent
#73. I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
Alan Ladd
#74. Well, it's no good crying over spilled potion, I suppose . . . but the cat's among the pixies now . . .
J.K. Rowling
#75. Rincewind wasn't used to people being pleased to see him. It was unnatural, and boded no good. These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made out of stone, but the thought was there.
Terry Pratchett
#77. At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
Mark Gatiss
#78. Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
Pablo Picasso
#79. Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast,
it's no good living in the fucking past.
Mark Jackman
#80. The truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.
Michael Crichton
#81. I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
Rick Baker
#83. Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!
Donna Brazile
#84. We are to be brought through the fire, not left in it.
and you know what?
to anyone that ever told you that you're no good ... they're no better.
Hayley Williams
#85. I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Rick Blaine
#86. If they are way too happy.They are either up to no good, on something or up to no good while on something. I always lean towards the latter.
R.K. Cowles
#87. Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Edmund White
#88. It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow
Ben Chifley
#89. If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.
Rebecca McKinsey
#90. Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.
Oprah Winfrey
#91. You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.
Scott Rudin
#92. Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real
the here-and-now. Seize the day.
Saul Bellow
#93. I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.
Bernard Beckett
#94. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
Maya Angelou
#95. Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?
Cindy Gerard
#96. When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see
there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others" ...
Kathleen Tessaro
#97. I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles
#98. There was a small, quiet moment, the kind you just have time to notice, which makes you feel sad for no good reason.
Nick Harkaway
#99. People who cannot respect others for their good qualities -
people who only look at the bad in others - are no good
themselves. By looking at only the bad points, you open
yourself up, and in a real encounter, will most probably be
killed.
Masaaki Hatsumi
#100. Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.
Rae Carson
