No Nonsense Quotes

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.

Confidence in nonsense is required.

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.