Top 100 No Use Quotes
#1. There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.
C.S. Lewis
#2. It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
Luc De Clapiers
#3. Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.
Dennis Lindley
#4. Daring Charming was facing her down. "It's no use, Cerise Hood," said Daring. "I am a Charming - brave, cunning, athletic - " Cerise faked left and dribbled right around him, driving toward the royals' end of the court.
Shannon Hale
#5. But it was no use. I had the kind of heart that would always be breaking.
Liz Rosenberg
#6. Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use."
"And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
Agatha Christie
#7. We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. What did I see? It's no use telling you there are no words. Of course there are words; there are always words. The question is: can I wield them well enough to evoke the power of what I witnessed? That I doubt. But let me do my best.
Clive Barker
#9. Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
Antonio Porchia
#10. Faith has no use for the sword, because those who ride with the sword to defend their faith ride with the devil by their side.
Stephen R. Harrison
#11. The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.
Carlos Castaneda
#12. Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
J. Milton Hayes
#14. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking . I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.
Jenny Han
#15. Oh happy he who still can hope in our day
to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error!
What we don't know is really what we need,
and what we know is of no use to us whatever!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. You know as well as I do, damn you. Like it or not I seem to have grown a heart. I have absolutely no use for the damned thing, but there it sits, demanding Elinor. I can't live without her.
Anne Stuart
#17. But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
Lewis Carroll
#19. The fight-or-flight is often triggered in situations where it is of little or no use to us.
Russ Harris
#20. It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
William E. Gladstone
#21. Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.
Warren Buffett
#23. Spread happiness among people. Ultimately, that's the most valuable thing. Whatever amount of money you have, if you do not have peace, it is of no use.
Rashmi Bansal
#24. If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
Greg Moore
#25. The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain
#26. Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James
#27. For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
Michel De Montaigne
#28. Seems like the kind that's easier to break than bend, which makes her no use to us.
Skye Callahan
#29. It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Nikolai Gogol
#30. There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.
Trey Gowdy
#31. A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture.
Kat Daughtry
#32. The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
Albion W. Small
#33. There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#34. No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.
Knut Hamsun
#35. The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#36. It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
#37. Literacy rots the brain, I'm afraid. And a rotten mind is of no use to the New Order. Sadly, there must be consequences.
James Patterson
#38. For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved.
Kingsley Amis
#40. I feel the fluttering
of dragonflies - summer creatures
that have no use for words.
Larissa Nash
#41. Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'.
Kevin Systrom
#42. Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
Zhuangzi
#43. If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#44. It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#45. When the rose's flash to the sunset
Reels to the wrack and the twist,
And the rose is a red bygone,
When the face I love is going
And the gate to the end shall clang,
And it's no use to beckon or say, "So long"
Maybe I'll tell you then
some other time.
Carl Sandburg
#46. I moved to New York and was told, "Go back home. We don't need you. Go pump gas. You're from Vermont. We've got no use for you. You're not drawing guys in tights." So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.
Frank Miller
#47. No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.
Lucille Kallen
#48. It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.
Sherwood Anderson
#49. Sometimes, you have to do what's best for you, otherwise you're no use to anyone. Nothing good would have come from dragging it out any longer.
Zayn Malik
#50. He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#51. It's brain," I said; "pure brain! What do you do to get like that, Jeeves? I believe you must eat a lot of fish, or something. Do you eat a lot of fish, Jeeves?"
"No, sir."
"Oh, well, then, it's just a gift, I take it; and if you aren't born that way there's no use worrying.
P.G. Wodehouse
#52. Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me.
Even though there's no use.
Even though it's futile.
Even though it's way past too late.
Alyson Noel
#53. It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.
Marjorie Grene
#54. So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.
Kathy Troccoli
#55. I'll see you off," Daru said. "No," said Balducci. "There's no use being polite. You insulted me.
Albert Camus
#57. It's no use crying over spilt milk
What's done, is done.
James Howell
#58. You can memorize your way through a labyrinth if it is simple enough and you have the time and urge to escape. But the learning is of no use for the next time when the exit will be differently placed.
David Hawkins
#59. We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in
the idle fancy that we already know
or that it is of no use seeking to
know what we do not know.
Plato
#60. Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.
Ilka Chase
#62. Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.
Bob Dylan
#63. For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'
George Arthur Buttrick
#64. Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.
Oswald Chambers
#65. [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.
Libby Houston
#66. Of all the girls I ever knew
some loved and some denied me
And all the words I ever said
have been no use to hide me
And all the songs I ever sung
each one of them untied me
And all the girls I ever loved
have left themselves inside me.
Al Stewart
#67. To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.
Vimala Thakar
#68. The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever ... because they already live in a dream world.
Sigmund Freud
#69. Mysticism is like pure science; it has no use. Mysticism is just the human longing to know ... Occult is not science. Occult is just technology.
Jaggi Vasudev
#70. If you are a baby, your family will sere you in your underwear many times, and there's no use being embarrassed about it
Lemony Snicket
#71. Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.
Ayn Rand
#73. For many thousands of years people had looked at expensive heads of hair and thought of how much food and warmth they represented, so obviously it was a thought of no use at all, so why bother to have it? But thoughts of this sort did go ticking on, useless or not.
Doris Lessing
#75. To me, when I read the Bible, it's God's Word. I believe it. That settles it. And that's the end of it. There's no use in discussing it. Because the Bible says so, His Words are health. They are medicine. To all their flesh.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#76. It's no use organizing the mice if the cat doesn't agree.
Marty Rubin
#77. One sock can't house two feet. If it does, it's of no use.
Vikrmn
#78. Animals, Mark, have no use for nostalgia, Aunt Kenna says. It is not a tool for survival, my darling. But
Ali Smith
#79. that there's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you." On
Nicholas Sparks
#80. Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tom Standage
#83. And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.
Dorothy Dunnett
#84. I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
John D. Rockefeller
#85. I tried to peg out soldierly,
no use!
One dies of war like any old disease.
Wilfred Owen
#86. Nothing is right or wrong but thinking makes it so. You no longer believe in reality but in thinking. And when you are pushed off the dead end your thoughts go with you and they are of no use to you.
Henry Miller
#87. Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
Richard Foreman
#88. The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.
Ludwig Von Mises
#90. I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define.
Margaret Atwood
#91. Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperately: 'he's perfectly idiotic!' And
Lewis Carroll
#92. Me? Kachka, you love me!" "I love your beauty. I have no use for you personally. You represent all that we hate." "Why do you talk to him so?" Elina asked. "He cannot help that he is beautiful but worthless." "I am not worthless! I am Gwenvael the - " "We do not care, lizard!" Kachka barked.
G.A. Aiken
#93. No use saying necessity is making a mistake.
Mason Cooley
#94. When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.
Charles Dickens
#95. It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinee in Hull - it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction. Come to think of it, I never did play to a good matinee in Hull ...
Noel Coward
#96. In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.
Joel Dorman Steele
#97. I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir.
Edwidge Danticat
#98. There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
C.S. Lewis
#99. If you don't dream big, there's no use of dreaming. If you don't have faith, there's nothing worth believing.
Justin Bieber
#100. It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. One
Margaret Atwood
