Top 100 Quotes About Something For Nothing
#1. Trying to get something for nothing?' - even mother nature abhors it.
Ufuoma Apoki
#2. Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.
Bob Dylan
#3. Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
Craig Brown
#4. I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Ethan Hawke
#6. Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so.
Napoleon Hill
#7. If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'
James Cook
#8. Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that gets them votes, which is what it is all about, as far as they are concerned.
Thomas Sowell
#9. I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing ... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.
Nick McDonell
#10. I WHO HAVE..
I WHO HAVE NOTHING shall gain in SOMETHING.
and in SOMETHING I HAVE will lose to NOTHING
in having that SOMETHING and try for NOTHING..I
will have SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.!
Adam Rhee
#11. If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.
Jonathan Haidt
#12. When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
Bernard Baruch
#13. Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.
C.S. Lewis
#14. Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free
Neil Peart
#16. There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon Hill
#17. A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
Arthur Dean
#18. You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be
Bradley J. Birzer
#19. Everyone loves something for nothing ... even if it costs everything.
Stephen King
#20. Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.
Robert Fulghum
#21. One of life's greatest lessons is realizing you can't have something for nothing.
Anna Staniszewski
#22. The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.
Allen Shawn
#23. Minimum wage laws appear to give low-income workers something for nothing - and appearances are what count in politics. Realities can be left to others, so long as appearances get votes.
Thomas Sowell
#24. There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
E.W. Howe
#25. Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.
Michael Peterson
#26. Never underestimate the public's desire to get something for nothing.
Leigh Bardugo
#27. The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.
Napoleon Hill
#28. Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.
Johann Lamont
#29. When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
Malcolm Turnbull
#30. The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.
Maya Angelou
#33. Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
Will C. Barnes
#34. The honest man might observe ... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
David Mamet
#35. I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy -
August Wilson
#36. Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
William Arthur Ward
#37. Governments institutionalize something for nothing.
James Cook
#38. The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
Lyn Nofziger
#39. Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you
either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.
John Wayne
#40. Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.
John Ridley
#41. The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.
Even free things are never free.
The burden of ownership means everything has a price.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#42. When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.
Charles Koch
#43. The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
Thomas Jefferson
#44. The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#45. I intend to end the something for nothing culture
David Cameron
#46. The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
Isaac Asimov
#47. A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government;
Anonymous
#48. A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
Frederick Douglass
#49. When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.
Franklin P. Jones
#51. You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.
P. J. O'Rourke
#52. People expected something for nothing, that's why they did nothing so beautifully these days.
Holly Hood
#53. The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
Thomas Sowell
#54. An idea comes as close to something for nothing as you can get.
Robert Frost
#55. [T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.
Antony C. Sutton
#56. Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold H. Glasow
#57. Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.
Orrin Woodward
#58. War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
Lewis Mumford
#59. Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
#60. As long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.
Fay Faron
#61. I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.
Maya Angelou
#62. The art of power, my love, is making people give you something for nothing and think they are being rewarded in the process.
Anne Leonard
#63. Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing
Dennis Prager
#64. One thing that never changed among humans: there were always those who wanted to get something for nothing. It was what kept hell in business.
Richelle Mead
#65. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.
Aldous Huxley
#66. The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
George Bernard Shaw
#67. A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#68. Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -
Dennis Prager
#69. I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.
Branch Rickey
#70. A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
William Barclay
#71. She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret.
Liane Moriarty
#72. Live for something or die for nothing
Steve
#73. Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.
Francis Cornford
#74. As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.
Jeanette Winterson
#75. Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
#76. I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse - to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.
Tracy Chevalier
#77. He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.
Bill Vaughan
#78. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.
Wallace Stegner
#79. Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
Carey Mulligan
#80. There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
Patrick Wilson
#81. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.
Tina Turner
#82. When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.
Pope John XXIII
#83. Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.
Simon Sinek
#84. For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
Khaled Hosseini
#85. He'd told her how orphaned birds would sometimes accept the most pathetic substitutes for their mothers - a pullover, a hot-water bottle, an armpit, or even a paper airplane - anything rather than nothing, but preferably something that moved.
Julia Gregson
#86. There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented
that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.
Boris Pasternak
#87. Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.
John Boyne
#88. Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.
T. Allen Lawson
#89. Lilly's something old was the love her husband-to-be had carried in his heart since he was just a boy. Her something new was the renewel of that love. Something blue was ever second they would ever be apart. There was nothing borrowed. Everything from here on out was for keeps.
Jan Watson
#90. If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.
David Vann
#91. What do you want?" Jake asked.
"Nothing. Can't I sit down for a chat with someone I once shared an egg with?"
"Trevor, you never chat with me. You mock me, you torment me, and sometimes you even say something profound. But you never chat. So spit it out and put me out of my misery.
Kat Attalla
#92. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.
David Baldacci
#93. It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
Kevin Eubanks
#94. I'm nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole life.
I could have done it. I should have done it.
I sat there and I thought about you, instead.
Julio Alexi Genao
#95. Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#96. Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#97. If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God ... except for the aspirations of fallen angels ...
Tad Williams
#98. You've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.
Charlotte Bingham
#99. My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.
Ross Macdonald
#100. They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.
Kamila Shamsie
