Quotes About Nothing You Can Do

#1. It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Wayne Dyer

#2. Sometimes things happen for a reason, though they are not obvious at that moment, and there is nothing you can do to control them.

Preeti Shenoy

#3. I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help.

Michael Douglas

#4. It rains on the just and the unjust. Nothing you can do but turn your collar up.

M.R. Carey

#5. The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.

Kaitlin Doubleday

#6. Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

Srikumar Rao

#7. And there is nothing you can do to make God love you less. Love is not something God does. It is who God is. And because of who he is, God loves you. Period.

Craig Groeschel

#8. Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.

Paul Weller

#9. Folks will take hold of whatever story suits em best and nothing you can do. Don't matter if it is your story, once they start in on it, you can't never get it out of their mouth. No matter how hard you try. All you can do is find a way to hang on to knowing you know better.

Margaret Wrinkle

#10. I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it.

Zach Galifianakis

#11. Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.

Abraham J. Twerski

#12. It's the same as a hereditary disease, weakness. No matter how much you understand it, there's nothing you can do to cure yourself. It's not going to go away with a clap of the hand. It just keeps getting worse and worse

Haruki Murakami

#13. There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.

Frank McCourt

#14. My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

Golda Meir

#15. When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

John Oliver

#16. Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Alison McGhee

#17. I've heard rumors about myself that are true - and nobody likes that. But there's actually something very liberating when you hear a false rumor because you realize there's nothing you can do. People are going to say whatever they want - especially on chat boards.

Christian Borle

#18. When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There's nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.

Nora Roberts

#19. It's a strange, surreal thing to watch an ideal crumble right in front of your eyes, and to know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Jessi Kirby

#20. There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you.

Joss Whedon

#21. The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory ...

Jose Saramago

#22. There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

Charlize Theron

#23. I hate that just because I live here I'm supposed to live politics. And there's nothing you can do. If you don't live politics, politics will leave you.

Marlon James

#24. At a point, there is nothing you can do to make someone love you, nothing you can do to make your love better or lasting, but you want it, search for it, and make every effort to sustain it regardless.

M.E. Thomas

#25. As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.

Kevin McCloud

#27. Coulda, woulda, shoulda," Zoelner interrupted. "There's nothing you can do to change this morning.

Julie Ann Walker

#28. You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever." "You have nothing to fear." "There is nothing you can do wrong.

Eben Alexander

#29. Death comes and takes you away and there is nothing you can do.

Aleksandar Hemon

#30. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Paul Mooney

#31. Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Byron Katie

#32. That's the thing about friends. Once you make them, there's nothing you can do about it.
-Natsume Hyuuga-

Tachibana Higuchi

#33. I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like
like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

Lauren Oliver

#34. Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what you want to do and advocate for it, no one will put any energy into stopping you.

Paul Feyerabend

#35. Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

Jennifer Coolidge

#36. Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.

Cass McCombs

#37. From time to time we may all face a hardship that is inescapable. If there's nothing you can do to change your current circumstance, then cancel the surrounding environment out of your Happiness Equation and solve the equation by using the rest of your life. When

Mo Gawdat

#38. But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it.
-Eli

Sarah Dessen

#39. Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.

Sherry Argov

#40. There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can't do it - because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel.

Rick Warren

#41. He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that's a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.

Elizabeth Scott

#42. There is really nothing you can do easily: live or die or accept fame or money or defeat, it's all hard.

Charles Bukowski

#43. Things happen; people have different experiences that change the way they look at the world. Sometimes you just have to accept that there's nothing you can do. Sometimes friendships just naturally come to an end.' Radu

Lisa Hall

#44. Everyone stop moving!" he bellowed. "Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!

Tui T. Sutherland

#45. Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

Shakuntala Devi

#46. I may need your permission to keep you, girl. But I don't need anyone's permission to love you. I choose it of my own free will, and there's nothing you can do about it.-Finn.

Kersten Hamilton

#47. In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents death. There's nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still won't prevent it.

Brad Warner

#48. The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Jerry Rubin

#49. You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

Jen Calonita

#50. When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.

Susane Colasanti

#51. You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

Cheryl Tiegs

#52. You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

Martina Navratilova

#53. A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

David Lynch

#54. There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.

James Frey

#55. There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].

Michael Schur

#56. I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

Nathan Fillion

#57. Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.

Julian Assange

#58. There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.

Sunday Adelaja

#59. I know - better than anyone - that once someone's made up her mind to leave you, there's nothing you can do to make her stay.

Terra Elan McVoy

#60. Worry is like a kettle full of water, it felt as if my mind was on the boil at a ferocious intensity with no opportunity to let off steam. There is nothing you can do but get through it as best you can.

Philip Gould

#61. Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed,

Molly Ivins

#62. Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.

Benjamin Graham

#63. Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.

Bill James

#64. You see the mistakes of one system - the surveillance - and the mistakes of the other - the inequality - but there's nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.

Anna Funder

#65. Sometimes there is nothing you can do.

Neil Gaiman

#66. When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry.

Alexander McCall Smith

#67. I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.

Lena Olin

#68. Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#69. Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.

Edeet Ravel

#70. Because there's nothing you can do about other people's reactions. You be yourself and let them be themselves and if you don't get what you want then tough and if you do then good for you and that's it. Everything else is manipulation and I spit on it.
-Zal

Justina Robson

#71. There will be times when there is nothing you can do but survive, to place one foot after the other into the driving rain.

Connilyn Cossette

#72. I don't have a gun. But I think they level the playing field. I accept that there's really nothing you can do about it. It's like nuclear weapons; if they exist then eventually other people are going to have them. Maybe just take away people's motivation to use them.

Doug Stanhope

#73. Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Philippa Gregory

#74. Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you can't own it. You can spend it, but you can't keep it. And once you've lost it, there is no getting it back. It's just gone.

Allison DuBois

#75. You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.

Marianne Wiggins

#76. Times change, Selena. Believe me, I know, and sometimes there's nothing you can do about it except to let it go. No matter how much you want to stop time, it has
to go forward and move on to something else.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#77. I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

Wayne Rooney

#78. I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

Twiggy

#79. Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

Elie Wiesel

#80. Thanks, Ian, but sometimes there's just nothing you can do." Her feet moved forward again towards the center of Lacsar Forest.
"That's not true, Eena. I can always listen.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#81. We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That's what I did.

Chris Gardner

#82. You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there's nothing you can do.

LIZ

#83. There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind ... There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

Dorothy Parker

#84. When someone doesn't want to change then there is nothing you can do to change them. And, when someone wants to change there is nothing you can do to stop them.

Marnie Kay

#85. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Leo Buscaglia

#86. We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own.

Maurice Samuel

#87. You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into compost and grow a garden.

Rebecca O'Donnell

#88. There will always be sharks in the water. Nothing you can do about it except be careful where you swim." "Your

Maria V. Snyder

#89. Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

John Byrne

#90. There's nothing you can do about growing older, and I should know. But growing up? That's entirely at your own discretion.

Nick Moseley

#91. There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#92. People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

Phil McGraw

#93. There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

Michael Connelly

#94. You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

Daniel Ellsberg

#95. The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love you - and there's nothing you can do about it!"
"That's all I needed to hear.

Stephenie Meyer

#96. If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something, don't freak out.. there's nothing you can do to change it.. just move on

Usher

#97. What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't.

Bill Bryson

#98. Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

Hanya Yanagihara

#99. For everything you are, and everything I love about you, there's nothing you can do to save us from an impossible situation. I've accepted that. That's the hardest thing we have to do today and I've done it.

Taylor Adams

#100. I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.

Lou Ferrigno