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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.


Margaret Atwood

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NO DOUBT It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
O...
INITIALLY NO We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
JUROR NO I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus...
INITIALLY NO Aerodynamically there isn’t much you can do to enhance your Beetle’s handling. The Porsche style...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Not one word in this bill mandates that the equipment be put to use.... But there is no mandate that...
LARRY SMITH I feel violated. Like there is no safety around, no guarantees that anything you do ethically or hon...
IGNACIO RAMIREZ I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive ind...
CRISS JAMI People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own ...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA It's clear that the people are in desperate need, ... They have no food, no water, no power, no phon...
DEBORAH MOORE Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; ...
JOHN DAVIDSON No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
MORRISSEY When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything othe...
JOHNNY DEPP That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding i...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people s...
DONNA TARTT Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY If you need something inspirational, just point up to the top of your vision.
MAZ NO PARADISE Sad but inspirational
MAZ NO PARADISE We face a new world everyday, try to understand them and love them more than our yesterday.
MAZ NO PARADISE Believe me, Dream is better than Hope but both Combined is the best.
MAZ NO PARADISE Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away.
MAZ NO PARADISE Recognize every time before doing anything that you always do a miracle.
MAZ NO PARADISE Sometime if you look up in the sky. There is a path of your destiny.
MAZ NO PARADISE There is no paradise for you or me.
MAZ NO PARADISE How much does he lack himself, he who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū How much does he lack himself who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG I expect consumer spending to continue to improve. The central bank is likely to raise interest rate...
IM NO JUNG The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove...
IM NO JUNG Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to i...
RAY BRADBURY Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary televis...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and conce...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.
MARGARET ATWOOD The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that ch...
FREYA STARK Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by...
ERICA JONG Do nothing that is of no use
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Just because someone tells you that you will never amount to anything doesn't mean you have to prove...
BLAQUE DIAMOND There's no indication at this point that it will be anything other than rain. People should stay upd...
BILL WALKER You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER This is a difficult time in so many ways, but in no way greater than having to disrupt the lives and...
TONY RIDDER What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Clearly, risks do exist and there is no doubt that some will get into trouble, especially if interes...
GLENN SILVERMAN How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that ...
BRAM STOKER I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no ...
JIM MORRISON I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no...
JIM MORRISON If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-an...
SONYA HARTNETT For a long time, no one ever wanted to admit that television was anything but this horrible, horribl...
JEFFREY SCONCE Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer...
GORE VIDAL Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on thei...
RAY BRADBURY Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
POL POT I'd rather have no friends than risk having crazy people in my life.
CHARLEEN L. SCOTT It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successfu...
JERRY KRAMER Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in the...
JOHN PATRICK HICKEY Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have mea...
SAI BABA Meaning, however, is no great matter.
C. S. CALVERLEY Their is no greater passion than love and no greater love than that of gods
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rat...
SHIV KHERA The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning i...
JANNE TELLER We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence...
CHARLTON LAIRD No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. AUDEN An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
FRANKLIN P. JONES I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more time...
SEAN CONNERY Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Ta...
BRIGHAM YOUNG No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke.
NIA VARDALOS No. Scared people run. They run for their lives.
TOMMY ALLAIN There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in ...
C.G. JUNG The fact credit rating agencies haven't changed their ratings is no surprise. I wouldn't have expect...
GEORGE MAGLIANO No, there is no guarantee, but there is somewhere between that and just throwing up your hands and t...
KATE GRABOWSKI Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VICTOR FRANKL Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR FRANKL 'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about an...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know ...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER The job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course...
W. BRUCE CAMERON People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on t...
YOUNG-HA KIM No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. AUDEN You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer...an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to w...
MARGARET ATWOOD how is it that "no" is shorter than "yes" and "maybe" and yet people still find it hard to say no? t...
PHILLIP BUYONDO Dear pious fellow! Our greatest hope for you is that one day you will understand that you have no en...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, go...
PAUL GAUGUIN Ascension If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no mea...
C. S. LEWIS I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.
SABAA TAHIR Nodding hollow “NO” word to the genuine & legitimate demand of the real talent is like gifting d...
CARL MATHIEU there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is
JOHN GREEN After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
THOMAS CARLYLE After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO ELDER Ever more people today have the means to live,
but no meaning to live for.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL No one is suggesting, and no one should suggest, that the United States is anything but vigilant and...
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on your way to work
that do not lo...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
MARGARET ATWOOD The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
MARGARET ATWOOD I think of this as a democratizing device.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm curious. If someone says 'Don't open that door', I'm right there!
MARGARET ATWOOD The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
MARGARET ATWOOD For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
MARGARET ATWOOD He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After readin...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Just think of it as a very, very long pen.
MARGARET ATWOOD Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
MARGARET ATWOOD This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
MARGARET ATWOOD A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
MARGARET ATWOOD Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
MARGARET ATWOOD They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to
MARGARET ATWOOD You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
MARGARET ATWOOD Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un...
MARGARET ATWOOD Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy...
MARGARET ATWOOD I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
MARGARET ATWOOD I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it...
MARGARET ATWOOD We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
MARGARET ATWOOD My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...
MARGARET ATWOOD Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
MARGARET ATWOOD Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...
MARGARET ATWOOD She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why...
MARGARET ATWOOD The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...
MARGARET ATWOOD My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'mad...
MARGARET ATWOOD