Top 100 There No Such Thing Quotes
#1. Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines? You talk of religious mania! Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?
G.K. Chesterton
#2. In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.
Steven Spielberg
#3. There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!
David Mitchell
#4. There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.
Cus D'Amato
#5. Where is your homework?" Mr. McNulty asked.
It's with Ariel.
"There's no such thing as homework," I said.
"What?"
"I mean, I left it at home.
David Levithan
#6. Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
Shirley Maclaine
#7. He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.
Gabrielle Zevin
#8. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.
Richard Branson
#10. So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
Sheryl Sandberg
#11. There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.
Emilie Autumn
#12. Perfection," Inigo said, "is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist.
Peter F. Hamilton
#13. Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.
Sarah Addison Allen
#14. There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami
#15. There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.
Kevin Thoman
#17. There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race
scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct ... it has a social function, racism.
Toni Morrison
#18. There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
Peter Capaldi
#19. There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
Edgar Degas
#21. There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.
Questlove
#22. You are afraid of hell. But that's all religion is, really. Fear of a place we'd rather not be, and where there's no such a thing as suicide to steal us away.
Patrick DeWitt
#23. The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
Steven Pressfield
#24. I don't have to be anything at all. I don't even have to be myself, because there is no such thing as not being myself. I am inescapably myself.
Mooji
#25. There is no such thing as Death, really, you know, only Change.
Agatha Christie
#26. We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.
Samuel Reshevsky
#27. There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
Sydney J. Harris
#28. Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up.
Carrie Newcomer
#29. There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
Richard Cecil
#30. Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.
Ariwara No Narihira
#32. 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
#34. There is no such thing as reality, only our perception of it.
Becky Mallery
#36. Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
W.G. Sebald
#37. There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
William Faulkner
#38. Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity.
Frank Herbert
#39. I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.
Jeremy Scahill
#40. If there was no such thing as a mirror in this world, then seeing our face 'exactly' would be considered a huge wonder.
Dada Bhagwan
#41. There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of different ways by tens of thousands of different institutions, who really disagree with each other far more than they disagree with people of other religions.
Mark Durie
#42. Pope smiled. "You're thinking all wrong, boy. There's no such thing as law or government inside this room. It's just you and me. I am the one and only authority in your little world, whose borders are these walls. I could kill you right now if I wanted to.
Blake Crouch
#43. There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
Mark Twain
#44. There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
Alan Hirsch
#45. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong
#46. There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science, and history, and the arts ... it is the deep foundation in rich knowledge and vocabulary depth that allows you to access more complex text.
David Coleman
#47. With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles ... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo
#48. Method is always tied to subject matter, and in dealing with life in general there is no such thing as a single scientific method.
Dallas Willard
#49. Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#50. There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the complexity of a universe we cannot begin to understand.
Bones The Doctor In The Photo
#52. There is no such thing as a straight line, the sun does not go down, and it is time we updated our language. A more mesmerizing discourse I have never heard.
Amy C. Edmondson
#53. So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.
Harvey Keitel
#54. People who tell me there is no God are like a six-year-old boy saying that there is no such thing as passionate love - they just haven't experienced it.
William Alfred
#55. Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.'
Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?
Gabrielle Zevin
#56. Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period.
Louis Leterrier
#57. There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
Adam Clarke
#58. There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Charles Dudley Warner
#61. There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
James Dyson
#63. Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
Lois Wyse
#64. There is no such thing as destiny..
you always have a choice..
and what you choose becomes your destiny. - ME (Rohit Joshi)
Rohit Joshi
#65. There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.
Hosea Ballou
#66. It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.
Edward Boyden
#67. Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
Condoleezza Rice
#69. There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
William Faulkner
#70. There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
Russell Smith
#71. There's no such thing as ready. There's only willing.
David Levithan
#72. In a world of diversity, and cultural differences ... there's no such thing as 'common' sense.
Carla VanKoughnett
#73. Vacations are like orgasms. There's no such thing as a bad one.
Al Daltrey
#75. There's no such thing as fate. It's just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.
Kim Wright
#76. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.
George Herbert
#77. I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
Christopher Hitchens
#78. Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
Sherwood Anderson
#79. Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
Alan Hirsch
#80. There is no such thing as too much snow.
Doug Coombs
#81. There is no such thing as a harmless addition to the gospel.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#82. For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#83. Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing
and keeping the unknown always beyond you.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#84. In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend - only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.
George Lucas
#85. There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.
Anthony Foxx
#86. There is no such thing as a riskless asset. The reason an asset pays a return is that it carries risk.
Michael Lewis
#88. There is no such thing as "firming and toning." There is only stronger and weaker.
Mark Rippetoe
#89. There's no such thing as a part-time 'Buffy' fan; people watch it compulsively.
Tom Lenk
#90. There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
Oscar Wilde
#91. If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
Imre Kertesz
#92. There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
Joe Abercrombie
#93. To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
Erskine Caldwell
#94. Let me tell you what the truth is ... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.
John McAfee
#95. Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand
#96. When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
Lorna Luft
#97. Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
Jeanette Winterson
#98. There's no such thing as an "absolute guarantee" in this world.
Hidetaka Suehiro
#99. There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Pat Riley
#100. There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind
you have to adhere to the highest standards.
Marvin Bower
