No Idea Quotes

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood.

  Erin Hunter

  Pain, Cutting, Blood

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• No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Ideas, Judgement

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Aries

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Ideas, Ambitious

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• Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a kindred spirit." "Your one to talk. Don't you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?" "Zombies not undead. There's a fine distinction. And no. Right now I'm scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow.

  Kiersten White

  Ideas, Zombie, Able

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• I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

  Cassandra Clare

  Short Life, Heart, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• No. This has to do with drugs." My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on drugs?" She pressed her mouth together. "No. You are." "I'm on drugs?" I asked, stunned. I had no idea.

  Darynda Jones

  Ideas, Drug, Together

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• So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

  Bill Bryson

  Powerful, Beer, Eight

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• No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya

  Cate Tiernan

  Ideas, Costumes, Possums

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• You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Fall, First Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?" She had no idea. "I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cutting, Blow, Doors

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.210, Penguin

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• I honestly have no idea what's going on anymore. I just need to find something I can hit. (Shaun Mason)

  Mira Grant

  Ideas, Needs, Masons

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a group of senior citizens, falling into a cave, and landing on a body." "And then getting tossed back a few centuries, with no idea of what's going on," Chloe agreed. "Naked, too, weren't you?" Gwen nodded wryly. Gabby blinked. "I gave you my plaid," Drustan protested indignantly.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Senior, Fall, Ideas

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.201, Delacorte Press

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• It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost." James choked on his tea. "Caroline, you have no idea.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Ideas, Ties

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• I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason -- because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you?" She shakes her head. "I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay.

  Veronica Roth

  Ideas, Aptitude Test, Loyal

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• It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

  Lian Hearn

  Hurt, Ideas, Mad

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Ideas, Pits, Misery

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.

  Sharon Shinn

  Heart, Ideas, Space

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• I’m sorry ma’am,” I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I’d spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts?

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Epic, Weekend

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.27, Penguin

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• Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be a record. It's a worldwide fact men hate shopping." "How can I hate it when I've never done it?" Her lips curled into a slow, beautiful smile. "If you weren't already an angel, I'd dub you a saint. Poor guy. You have no idea what you're in for.

  Gena Showalter

  Beautiful, Hate, Heart

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• I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Ideas, Universe

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.195, Penguin

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• You know what I'm thinking?' Maggie said. I had no idea. 'Nope,' David replied. Apparently David didn't know either. Maggie turned to me with pleading eyes.'Our babysitter has the flu.' 'I'm sorry to hear that,' I replied. Dead silence. I honestly had no idea what Maggie was getting at, so I misread the silence. 'It's not serious, I hope,' I said sympathetically.

  Lisa Lutz

  Sorry, Eye, Thinking

  Lisa Lutz (2013). “Trail of the Spellmans: Document #5”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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