Quotes About No

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

I think playing with no fans would be pretty wild. It would almost be like a scrimmage at training camp. You'd have to bring all of your own energy. Home-court advantage is pretty much thrown out the window at that point in time.

The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

I tell ya one thing about me. I say "No" to drugs. When people ask me for some of my drugs, I say "No.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost redundant. And yet, there was a comfort in being no question, no room for doubt.

That had been the worst part of childhood: people telling you how lucky you were to live in a carefree time with no responsibilities

People have questioned my commitment to Scotland but it's actually the opposite. My problem is I can never say no.

I teach the No to all that makes weak—that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

The properties of a thing are effects on other 'things': if one removes other 'things', then a thing has no properties, i.e., there is no thing without other things, i.e., there is no 'thing-in-itself.

So just by shifting income from a taxable state to a no tax state you are saving money.

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.

Oh, see then, the Simi is not in trouble. I just kill the Greek god and all's fine. (Simi) You can't kill a Greek god, Simi. It's not allowed. (Acheron) There you go again, akri, saying no to the Simi. Don't eat that, Simi. Don't kill that, Simi. Stay here, Simi. Go to Katoteros, Simi, and wait for me to call you. I don't like being told no, akri. (Simi)

Would you like tickets for tonight's tour? (Andrei) Like another hole in my head. (Esperetta) That's American slang for 'no thank you. (Francesca) Strange. When I was in New York it was slang for 'no fucking way.' (Andrei)

In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say "Yes" and hand me a chicken leg, or "No" and slap me with an old fish.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

You may juggle human laws, you may fool with human courts, but there is a judgment to come, and from it there is no appeal. —ORIN PHILIP GIFFORD1

You've got to make a stand, show a bit of class, all you've got to do is say no, but you know you're going to hate yourself in the morning.

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

It is merely a trick of taking notice, sir. I assure you I am no better informed than another.

In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.