There's Nothing You Can Do Quotes

#1. There's nothing you can do God's business is adoption, Child, And He has chosen you.

Beth Moore

#2. 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

#3. Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [ ... ] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Tamora Pierce

#4. The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#5. I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

Dominic Monaghan

#6. Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

Natalie Imbruglia

#7. Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

Suzanne Collins

#8. Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

David Bailey

#9. You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

Markus Wolf

#10. May be they want to talk about it but they know there's nothing you can do to help

Nicholas Sparks

#11. I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest ... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

Trevor Rabin

#12. His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans
and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.

Terry Pratchett

#13. 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

#14. Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

Chuck Barris

#15. Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

Conor Oberst

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

Louise Bourgeois

#21. You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.

Simon Taylor-Davis

#22. Here's something I've learned from seventeen years of living: there's nothing you can do to make someone love you.

Katherine Easer

#23. It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

Tana French

#24. Because once things turned out, good or bad, there's nothing you can do about it. It just is. And Henry liked just is.

Leslye Walton

#25. Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir

#26. People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

Marilyn Manson

#27. Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up.
"Don't bother," Esrahaddon told them. "She's dead, and there's nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. It - "
The two were out the door.

Michael J. Sullivan

#28. You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

Byron Katie

#29. Somebody", "somebody" is always what everyone's thinking. Acting like there's nothing you can do yourself is the easy approach. But there's always "somebody" who comes forward. Time went by in the world. I wanted to be that "somebody." I'm sure, right now that "somebody" is "you and me.

Strike Tanaka

#30. What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news for you, my friend." "What's the bad news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift." "And what's the good news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.

Anthony De Mello

#31. And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Norman MacCaig

#32. Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

Neil Gaiman

#33. There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.

Heather Brewer

#34. Some of us are broken and there's nothing you can do to fix it.

Marie Lu

#35. Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!

Steve Maraboli

#36. I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Roald Dahl

#37. If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you.

Edmund Carpenter

#38. Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

John Lennon

#39. Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'

Twiggy

#40. You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

Christopher Walken

#41. That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#42. As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Jessica Hahn

#43. The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent.

David Lloyd

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

Julian Assange

#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. 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

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

Martina Navratilova

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Shakuntala Devi

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Tachibana Higuchi

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

Byron Katie

#71. 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

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

Julie Ann Walker

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

Kevin McCloud

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. You've got my come drying between your thighs right fucking now. And bruises in the shape of my fingers on your body. You. Are. Mine. And there's nothing you can say or do to change that. Don't fucking test me, my bella, because I'm running out of patience.

Jessica Prince

#84. There's nothing I can do that's going to drive you away, is there?" I murmured.
Owen flashed me a sly grin. "Finally figuring that out, are you?
I nodded.
His grin deepened. "Well, it sure took you long enough.

Jennifer Estep

#85. Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#86. There's digital fatigue. When you can do everything, you can actually do nothing.

Laszlo Nemes

#87. You can't direct yourself but if you're in the moment and you feel it, there's nothing more you can do but hope there was some truth captured for the screen.

Jaime Zevallos

#88. Babe, I'm too selfish a man to leave you, even if it's the right thing to do. I'm fucking addicted to you and there's nothing anybody can do that would make me give this up. I've decided.

Michelle A. Valentine

#89. There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.

Kate Christensen

#90. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything to change it.

Jay McLean

#91. Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.

Caroline Leavitt

#92. There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Gail Carson Levine

#93. Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper ...

Demi Lovato

#94. Everything becomes ... too late, finally. You know it's going on ... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel ... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield ... finally ... there's nothing there ... save rust; bones; and the wind.

Edward Albee

#95. There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

Jason Fried

#96. I want to drink you until there's nothing left. I want you to magically rematerialize so I can do it again. I want a phoenix that will rise from the ashes just so I can keep burning her. I thought I knew madness, but I didn't know it before you.

Kitty Thomas

#97. But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.

Colin Firth

#98. Yes.' He drank it all down and then casually threw the glass at the fireplace. I stared at the fragments. 'You don't mind, do you?' He gestured to the broken glass with a sarcastic smile. 'I surely hope you don't, because there's nothing much you can do about it if you do mind.

Anne Rice

#99. Some days are like that ... and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do.

Lloyd Alexander

#100. A pathfinder's job is hard enough - blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

Justina Chen