Top 100 No Such Quotes
#1. If you listen hard enough, there's almost no such thing as silence: there's just noise that isn't very loud yet.
John Connolly
#2. There's no such thing as a dirty fight when you're fighting to win.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.
Chris Oyakhilome
#4. In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me.
Neale Donald Walsch
#5. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
Ben Carson
#6. There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.
Eoin Colfer
#8. There's no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there's only ignorance. You think you are holding on to something pure, but you aren't. You're just ignorant. You are handicapped by everything you don't yet know.
Eleanor Catton
#10. You see, there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur. You are a failed entrepreneur only when you quit. Until then, you are simply not successful ... yet.
Anonymous
#11. Anyone who is actually following a recognized road will not be too worried if he hears nontravelers telling each other that no such road exists.
J.I. Packer
#12. Jack watched him drive away. He shook his head. The old woman might be weird, maybe even crazy, but there was no such thing as a witch. *
J.S. Green
#13. A wise man learns from his mistakes;
a fool won't even learn from his fatal ones.
There is no such thing as an intentional mistake,
but no man is a fool accidentally.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.
Hugh Laurie
#16. There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.
Jefferson Smith
#17. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
#18. There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?
Alan Moore
#19. When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.
Scott Brooks
#20. They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening." Szilard held no such sanguine view, noting that the Germans themselves were paralyzed with cynicism, one of the uglier effects on morals of losing a major war.
Richard Rhodes
#21. Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic.
Timothy Ferriss
#22. Straight people have it so much easier. They don't understand. They can't. There's no such thing as openly straight.
Bill Konigsberg
#23. I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
Ali Larter
#24. There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
Jerry Seinfeld
#25. remember, there's no such thing as perfect anything. You make your own future out of the chaos life hands you. Life is a giant slot machine, and honey, God only gives you so many pulls.
Miranda Liasson
#26. There is no such thing as a "war hero", because there is nothing about war that is heroic.
Michel Templet
#28. What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by the same token, no such thing as a purely private morality, for the morals of private citizens are public in effect, and are increasingly so.
Wendell Berry
#29. There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.
Susan Strasberg
#30. In business, there's such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.
Malcolm Forbes
#31. there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.
Henning Mankell
#32. There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.
Paulo Coelho
#33. There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston S. Churchill
#35. There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.
Julian Jaynes
#36. To a woman
I mean, a nice woman
there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
Ada Leverson
#37. He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed.
Emile Zola
#38. It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
Alistair Cooke
#39. There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?
David Levithan
#40. A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.
John Owen
#41. To 'us', nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one's own 'boundary' (to not remain as the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
#42. If you are following me on my path of life ... !!!
than plz try to stop it ... !! bcz there is no such thing like a PATH in my LIFE ... !
strange but true ... !!
Mit Ptel
#43. There is no such thing as 'my truth,' 'your truth,' or 'our truth'; there is only the Truth. And Truth is a Person: His name is Jesus. And it is only He that can set us free.
Desiree M. Mondesir
#44. There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.
Paul Bourget
#45. They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
Aeschylus
#46. I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.
Kevyn Aucoin
#47. I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
Jane Austen
#48. If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as 'all accidents are preventable'.
Rob Long
#49. It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.
Michael Kimmelman
#50. There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.
Tom DeMarco
#51. For every man, there is a way to happiness in every point of his life! The door to happiness is always open; there is no such a thing to miss the entry! All points are entry points to happiness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#53. There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.
William Gurnall
#56. But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.
Ayn Rand
#57. Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less free to resist pressure, more or less free to do what we want and to be ourselves. Freedom is always a question of increasing freedom one has, or decreasing it.
Erich Fromm
#58. There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
Gabe Paul
#59. In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.
(In the Company of Others)
Jan Karon
#60. Between things shift and change constantly; there is no such thing as objective truth.
Michael Swanwick
#61. There are no such things as synonyms!" he practically shouted. "Deluge is not the same as flood.
Tom Robbins
#62. We have it backward. Faith is not business, and there is no such thing as quarterly growth of the inward life.
Ricky Maye
#63. I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.
Rory Kinnear
#64. There is no such thing as weak competition, it grows all the time.
Nabil N. Jamal
#65. Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.
Jerome F. Lederer
#66. Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#67. There is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness.
M. Pierce
#69. You wish to be free, but there is no such thing as freedom. You can redecorate dungeon to give illusion of freedom, but you are still in dungeon." "I should've had the choice." "Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
Carolyn Crane
#70. There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.
Thomas Brooks
#71. There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw
Andre Agassi
#72. Because there's no such thing as too much water under the bridge. The only problem is a refusal to deal with the water that's already gone pasts.
Ellen Miller
#73. There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
Maurice Sendak
#74. There's no such thing as an ex-marine.
EX-MARINES
#75. There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.
Adolf Hitler
#76. If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.
Wendy Mass
#77. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
Sophie Kinsella
#78. Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
Price Pritchett
#79. There is no such thing as 'separation of church and state.' Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.
Ken Ham
#80. Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#81. You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
Malcolm X
#82. There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
Michael Jordan
#83. There is no such thing as life in-between.
Pat Riley
#84. I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
J. C. Watts
#85. There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.
Dada Vaswani
#86. Your steps will take you where you want them to take you. There is no such thing as unwanted detour.
Irina Serban
#87. There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
Cornel West
#88. There is no such thing as reincarnation, but only similar incarnation.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
Andrew Solomon
#90. There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.
Ludwig Von Mises
#91. There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
Henry Taylor
#92. I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.
Josh Trank
#93. I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
Roger Daltrey
#94. Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.
Salman Rushdie
#95. There is no such thing as a Palestinian people ... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
Golda Meir
#96. Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
David Crane
#97. The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart
Jane Austen
#98. Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#99. There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.
Steven Spielberg
#100. There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'
Leo Burnett