Top 100 Or No Quotes
#1. Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.
George Orwell
#2. The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
Edward Thorndike
#3. Marriage appeared something remote and forbidding, with which desire for Barbara had little or no connexion. She seemed to exist merely to disturb my rest: to be possessed neither by lawful nor unlawful means: made of dreams, yet to be captured only by reality.
Anthony Powell
#4. 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
#5. I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.
John Anderson
#6. There are some people who should not be allowed on the road. Maybe they shouldn't even be allowed to walk anywhere, either. Maybe we should hang a large sign around their neck saying 'Very Dangerous', or 'No Sense', or something like that.
Alexander McCall Smith
#7. The fight-or-flight is often triggered in situations where it is of little or no use to us.
Russ Harris
#8. Some love stories has no end, no path or no name, but they are 'love stories' too.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#9. These were people collaborating because they wanted to, not because they were paid to, and with little or no intellectual property in their ideas.
Matt Ridley
#10. Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
Alan Hirsch
#11. No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
Matt Chandler
#12. We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
Anne Wilson Schaef
#13. The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get 'yes' or 'no' votes. Your whole job is to either say 'yes' or 'no' and explain why.
Mark Kirk
#14. People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.
Ray Dalio
#15. I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it.
Robert Black
#16. They began with the fact of sin - a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
Nelson Algren
#19. In London, Washington, and Paris people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.
Robert Zoellick
#20. At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.
C. H. Douglas
#21. If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'
Rachel Tucker
#22. I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
Martin Scorsese
#23. 'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
G. Willow Wilson
#24. Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or ... whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things.
Cindy Woodsmall
#25. If it's within your power to give another person great joy at little or no expense to yourself - or even at great expense - then you should, especially when you love that person.
Penny Reid
#26. There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties
John Muir
#27. I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment
George Washington
#28. Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling years. But apart from that, there were no friends or no long term associations. That was the only thing I knew was with me wherever I went.
Nimrat Kaur
#29. All that interconnectedness that facilitated much of the explosion of megawealth over the last decade also facilitated the interpenetration of everything, so no one or no building is truly isolated and 'safe' anymore. Safety is in getting along. (p.261)
David Byrne
#30. You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?"
"What kind of question is that?"
"A yes or no one.
Todd Morr
#31. They are hopelessly vulgar. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike, at any rate; and for this short life that is quite enough.
Henry James
#32. Kahnawake
November 1704
Temperature 44 degrees
"They won't let you see her," said Ruth flatly. "Now tell us, Mr. Williams, why has ransom not come? Do people have short memories or no memory? Why do they not rescue us? I get so angry sometimes."
Sometimes! thought Mercy.
Caroline B. Cooney
#33. Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?
Brian Evenson
#34. The question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.
William Whewell
#35. Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo
Lynsay Sands
#36. Frankie and Carter Thibodeau would revert to what they'd been before: smalltown losers with little or no jingle in their pockets.
Stephen King
#37. If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#38. Do you enjoy being cruel?"
"Jesus. That's a really loaded question."
"It's a yes or no question."
"And one I'd rather not answer if nothing's going to happen between us.
Annabel Joseph
#39. The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.
James Surowiecki
#40. Up to this time, Mr Pancks had transacted little or no business at his quarters in Pentonville, except in the sleeping line; but now that he had become a fortune-teller,
Charles Dickens
#41. Are you for real?' I whispered against his lips. 'Yes or no.'
'You're killing me, princesa.' His words slid into my mouth as our bodies pressed together.
Sarah Ockler
#42. Sometimes placing our belief in something bigger than ourselves helps us get to a point where we can be enough on our own, magic or no magic.
Sara Raasch
#43. Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake
#44. You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
Therese Of Lisieux
#46. No other thing or no other person is going to make me happy in life, I just have to do that myself.
Greg Page
#47. OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.
Tom Peters
#48. You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point.
Jeet Thayil
#49. Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.
Jimmy Johnson
#50. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place. They
Lev Grossman
#51. When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.
William Friedkin
#52. What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#53. Any church program, no matter how impressive, if it is not supported by an adequate prayer program, is little more than an ecclesiastical treadmill. It is doing little or no damage to Satan's kingdom.
Paul Billheimer
#54. Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.
William Boyd
#55. We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved.
Maurice Strong
#56. Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
Adrienne Bailon
#58. There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.
Theodore Roosevelt
#59. Artist or no-artist, I can't pass up a piece of fried chicken when I see one.
Jack Kerouac
#60. It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
Alan Lightman
#61. It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.
Russell Baker
#62. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson
#63. Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.
Lupe Fiasco
#64. But that's how it felt, pathetic or no. In a life entirely lacking in romance, that one moment of beauty smote me. I almost brayed a laugh. I'd finally fallen in love, and it was with the entire world.
B.P. Gregory
#65. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always,
whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme
that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to
be such when it ceases to be aristocratic
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#66. And as he plucked his cursed steel away,
Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it,
As rushing out of doors, to be resolved
If Brutus unkindly knocked or no.
William Shakespeare
#67. People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
Andrew Zimbalist
#68. Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
Seth Godin
#70. Critics can neither build nor explore. All they do, really, is say yes or no - and complicate it.
Mark Helprin
#71. Writing is a bit like going on a diet; you should either tell everyone or no one.
Maeve Binchy
#72. It's an opportunity that's there for all of us, like a life raft or preserver to hang onto when there's nothing else or no one else around because man, we're human and no matter what, one way or another, everyone of us in our lives, at some point in time, are going to feel alone.
Chuck Ragan
#74. If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
Benjamin Graham
#75. This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back.
John Grisham
#76. Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.
Michael Beckwith
#77. Sliding is living antifriction. Or, no, sliding is living by antifriction. It is finding a modest thing you can do, and then greasing that thing. On both sides. It is grooving with comfort.
James Dickey
#78. I'll loosen the ropes a bit if you'll be still," Roland told her. "Suck shit out my ass, mahfah!" "I don't understand if that means yes or no.
Stephen King
#79. Perhaps the world is fair and balanced after all; no one gains and no one loses or no one gains and everyone loses equally.
Hisham Matar
#80. The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."
Alan Watts
#81. Rewards do not undermine people's intrinsic motivation for dull tasks because there is little or no intrinsic motivation to be undermined.
Daniel H. Pink
#82. The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no. How
Anthony Trollope
#83. But the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no
I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.
David Levithan
#84. There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
Jeffrey Fry
#85. I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.
Richard Patrick
#86. I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way ... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
Ida B. Wells
#87. Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.
Steven Erikson
#88. Life has many insignificant pursuits that add little or no value to your reality.
Steven Redhead
#89. Faerie music is the wind", he says, "and their movement is the play of shadow cast by moonlight, or starlight, or no light at all. Faerie lives like a ghost beside us, but only the city remembers. But then the city never forgets anything.
Charles De Lint
#90. Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or no help? They actually can be very damaging.
Chris Prentiss
#91. You can't go back', she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. 'That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be'.
Robin Hobb
#92. We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.
John Marshall Harlan II
#93. And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.
Jason Reitman
#94. The fulfillment of your dreams lies within you and you alone.
When you understand and accept this then nothing, or no one can deny you greatness.
JohnA Passaro
#95. No delays in expressing decisions. Whether its a Yes or No... Right or Wrong... Just tell that for heaven sake.
Giridhar Alwar
#96. People invariably seek the fastest and easiest way to get the things they want, right now, with little or no concern for the long-term consequences of their behaviors.
Brian Tracy
#97. It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.
Simone De Beauvoir
#98. Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.
Derek Jacobi
#99. There's nothing or no one here that could possibly hurt the Fates - right, Mina?
Chanda Hahn
#100. It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.
Robert J. Shiller
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