Top 86 To No Avail Quotes
#1. Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.
John Berendt
#2. There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. If you don't know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker!
Israelmore Ayivor
#4. But as the program got going, the smallest details became issues, even the very name of the disease. Pig farmers complained to the Centers for Disease Control that the name "swine flu" might frighten people away from eating pork. They asked, to no avail, that the flu's name be changed to "New Jersey
Gina Kolata
#5. How's your business doing?"
"What business would that be, Jimmy?"
"The escort service." I try to stifle my laugh, but to no avail. Chelsea slaps me across my arm. It stings, but I don't show it. I can't let her know that she still affects me in any way.
Heidi McLaughlin
#6. I did my best Shirley Booth this morning, floppy slippers, housecoat, curlers, can of Little Friskies; "Come back, Little Sheba, come back ... " To no avail. Le chat, elle ne reviendra jamais, jamais ...
Tony Kushner
#7. For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.
David W. Earle
#8. To date, treasure-hunters have followed up clue after clue, including a dagger-marked tree, to no avail. If there is a fortune buried in Handcart Gulch, it is still safely hidden
Phyllis Flanders Dorset
#9. The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail.
Kip S. Thorne
#10. Oliver knocked on the door, trying to keep his fear in check. Dominic didn't answer. Oliver looked around the porch for a hidden key, frantically searching under the welcome mat, but to no avail.
Yawatta Hosby
#11. I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it ... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#12. We spend our waning strength to no avail. For till we be sure where the Dragon will pass, it is vain to climb.' 'But
J.R.R. Tolkien
#13. Between the city walls, you build a reservoir for water from the old pool. But all your feverish plans are to no avail because you never ask God for help. He is the one who planned this long ago (Isaiah 22:11 NLT).
Henry Cloud
#14. Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?
Li Bai
#15. Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.
Shane Filan
#16. Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.
Lord Byron
#17. All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.
Michael Chabon
#18. Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
Mark Van Doren
#19. By ... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
Thomas Jefferson
#20. Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
Zhuangzi
#22. Only bottles and locks and drawn curtains," Pen says, trying to balance on the edge of the sidewalk to little avail. "This cold is drawing the burn right out of my veins," she sulks. "I think I'm already sober."
"You aren't," I assure her.
Lauren DeStefano
#23. When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human nature is of no avail to unite them in fellowship.
Augustine Of Hippo
#24. What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don't have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
Lupita Nyong'o
#25. A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
Kabir
#26. Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
Saint Augustine
#28. Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
Bernard Baruch
#29. What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
Delmore Schwartz
#30. Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.
Philip Schaff
#31. Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.
Herve Falciani
#32. It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.
Frederick Lenz
#33. Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.
Cyprian
#34. It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it came into being; for knowledge of the sources of an artist's inspiration would often confuse readers and shock them, and the excellence of the writing would be of no avail.
Thomas Mann
#35. I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Nellie Bly
#36. Remain strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this faith, in its close-knit unity our people to-day goes straight forward on its way and no power on earth will avail to stop it.
Adolf Hitler
#37. For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
Henry David Thoreau
#38. Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#39. The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.
George Sutherland
#40. It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#41. Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail ... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
James Joyce
#43. Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.
Theodore Roosevelt
#44. It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#45. What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
Aldo Leopold
#46. No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#47. So many people believe in their beliefs, have faith in their faith, and are confident in their confidence. All of this is of no avail. It is our confidence in God that abides, faith in God that remains, and belief in God that lasts.
Oswald Chambers
#48. The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
Abdu'l- Baha
#49. Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I ... see ... you."
A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly.
Christopher Paolini
#50. One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it.
I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#52. No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.
Ronald Fisher
#53. We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.
Rudolf Bultmann
#54. Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?
You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions.
Gerard De Nerval
#55. Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
Publilius Syrus
#56. The Kazi is searching the words of the Koran, and instructing others:
but if his heart be not steeped in that love, what does it avail, though he be a teacher of men?
Kabir
#57. There is enough in Christ for all my necessities; let me not be slow to avail myself of Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#60. He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
Martial
#61. Pushing herself up to a sitting position, she rubbed the side of her face and then blinked at what seemed to be a solid Avail of business suits. She looked up. 'Mount Rushmore,' she said. 'Little far west of home for this time of year?' The
Pat Cadigan
#62. He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.
Julius Lester
#63. I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.
Trey Gowdy
#64. In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
Samuel Johnson
#65. There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#66. What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Horace
#67. Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Billy Sunday
#68. Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
Thomas Jefferson
#69. Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
Samuel Hahnemann
#70. No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.
John Flavel
#71. Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
Jakob Bohme
#72. So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
B.R. Ambedkar
#73. Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, but expecting to be repaired.
N. T. Wright
#74. Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.
Ovid
#75. To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.
Hugh Prather
#76. Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor?
Emma Goldman
#77. Yet, should our feeble efforts nought avail, Should, after all, our best endeavours fail; Still, let some mercy in your bosoms live, And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive.
George Gordon Byron
#78. Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley
#79. Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.
Billy Graham
#80. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.
Henry David Thoreau
#81. People are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.
Robin Morgan
#82. There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
Elizabeth I
#83. When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
Martin Luther
#84. All in all, this is an excellent place to partake of morning tea, but surprisingly few of the inhabitants of Taunton seem to wish to avail themselves of it. At
Kazuo Ishiguro
#85. All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#86. No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
Theodore Roosevelt
