Give Nothing Quotes

#1. There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this:
I have a responsibility I need to fathom.
I have a sorrow I cannot weigh.

Michelle Dicinoski

#2. The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

H.L. Mencken

#3. You have moved into the laws and regulations of the society and those laws and regulations cannot protect you, they can only give you the feeling of protection. But nothing protects. The laws cannot make you secure, they can only give you a feeling of security that is false.

Osho

#4. I learnt that no matter what names they give you, nothing applies until you wish it to. No insult, no barb yours to bear unless you want it to. Use it, if you want. Make it into a weapon and let it boomerang back to those who uttered it. Just don't let it overpower your life.

Sweety Shinde

#5. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love.

John Irving

#6. Nothing's going to stop you or deter you or cause you to give up. Pursuit, because nobody actually expects it to happen. They want you to be continuous in your efforts. And perfection because there's just nothing better.

Frank Luntz

#7. Seek to give much
expect nothing.

Jonathan Goforth

#8. The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Lucian Freud

#9. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

Tina Turner

#10. (1) Never give anything away for nothing.
(2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait).
(3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.

William S. Burroughs

#11. Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.

Dwyane Wade

#12. Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Theodore Roethke

#13. The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

C.S. Lewis

#14. You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.

Karen Kain

#15. Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.

John Locke

#16. Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.

Emily Post

#17. I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

P.J. Harvey

#18. There must be no concealment," she said. "Alas! We have had too much already. And besides there is nothing in all the world that can give me more pain than I have already endured, than I suffer now!

Bram Stoker

#19. Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.

T. Harv Eker

#20. It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.

Robert Moss

#21. I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possiblility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery

Emily Saliers

#22. Nothing is ever guaranteed, but you can't write us off before you even give me a chance to prove that I can be good for you.

Molly McAdams

#23. If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

Frederic Bastiat

#24. I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.

Michael York

#25. There's nothing wrong with seeing. If you see a "bad future", just change it, is all. Things'll turn out okay, as long as you don't give up!

Sakura Tsukuba

#26. I found at a young age that emotions aren't always handled with talking and other emotions. I started ballet, seriously around fourteen, and let me tell you, nothing can give you an emotional reset like a good ballet barre.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#27. Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little.

Kate Grenville

#28. I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

Laurie Anderson

#29. Nothing is free. If you stay safe, the price is never knowing love. Because to receive love, you have to give love. And to give love is to be vulnerable. You can build walls and be lonely or you can tear them down and hand over your heart." "What

Susan Mallery

#30. if somebody steals from you, you should forgive them because they might have been in need. If someone speaks behind your back, say nothing because you must be the bigger person. When you fall in love, give all your heart to your beloved and don't ever doubt.

Zahed Haftlang

#31. The highest to which man can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes him wonder, let him be content; nothing higher can it give him, and nothing further should he seek for behind it; here is the limit.

Alan W. Watts

#32. Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

William Wilberforce

#33. Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the source of spiritual power that will give you and me the assurance that we have nothing to fear.

M. Russell Ballard

#34. They wanna know why, I'm so fly, a girl asked me for a ring and I put one around her whole eye I'm looking nothing like ya poppa, I wouldn't give a chick ten cents, to put cheese on a whopper.

Big L

#35. To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

Eliphas Levi

#36. I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Charles Darwin

#37. Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Dennis Cardoza

#38. Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

Robert Frost

#39. Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.

Rita Stradling

#40. It made me a household name, but nothing comes for nothing. What I had to give physically, emotionally and vocally to that role took a bit of my soul away.

Anthony Warlow

#41. Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

Martin Luther

#42. Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

John Dryden

#43. We are nothing but the oath we give.

Conn Iggulden

#44. How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!

Hilary McKay

#45. Give, expecting nothing there of.

Thomas Aquinas

#46. Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Lorraine Hansberry

#47. If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#48. The town in which ... I had spent my youth ... had nothing to give me but memories.

Hermann Hesse

#49. There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Winston Churchill

#50. Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed.

Charlotte Featherstone

#51. I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. When I give my heart, I give myself totally.

Jiah Khan

#52. Babe, I'm too selfish a man to leave you, even if it's the right thing to do. I'm fucking addicted to you and there's nothing anybody can do that would make me give this up. I've decided.

Michelle A. Valentine

#53. Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us.

Ravi Zacharias

#54. Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

Colum McCann

#55. Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give-and then realize that it still isn't what they need?

Jodi Picoult

#56. Dear God,
I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!
Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to?
Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands?
Please help me to gradually open my hands
and to discover that I am not what I own,
but what you want to give me.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#57. We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

#58. Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.

Wilkie Collins

#59. That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day a few shots behind with nothing to lose ... and maybe that's why I've shot so many bad last rounds when I was ahead and knew I couldn't afford a mistake.

Jack Nicklaus

#60. Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Francois Fenelon

#61. Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.

Michel De Montaigne

#62. The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.

Thomas Szasz

#63. Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's a fascinating hobby.

Tyler Perry

#64. Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

Kate McGahan

#65. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#66. You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

Afrika Bambaataa

#67. Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so.

Napoleon Hill

#68. All I'm saying is that, unless you're immortal, nothing can really belong to you. The best you can hope for is to hold something for a while, but in the end you've got to give it back.

Neal Shusterman

#69. What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine.

Thomas A Kempis

#70. If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

Doug Liman

#71. Never give anyone the satisfaction of denying you something you need, and for that, what you have to do is to learn to need nothing. Starve the wanting part of you.
Dorothy Allison,
"Mama"
Trash

Dorothy Allison

#72. You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible." Father gazed at the Station. "Sir, I can give you nothing. Morality is ... the art of the absolute.

David Feintuch

#73. ... .You are an exalted creature, with a spark of the divine within you that nothing you do can extinguish; and you have been granted life in order to give, because it is in giving that we receive ...

Eknath Easwaran

#74. If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

Isaac Asimov

#75. There could be nothing worse than choosing between two children. Ask me to choose between my right arm and my left and I will give you one. But ask me to choose between two of my children and my heart shatters into a thousand pieces.

Nadia Hashimi

#76. Give as much you can possibly give, even if, or when, you do not receive. For the more you give, the more the heart gets 'bigger' and 'stronger'. So, never for one moment you hold back from giving, until the heart has nothing left to give again.

Ufuoma Apoki

#77. Just before our wedding, a German coffee farmer warned me that I was about to make a big mistake. "The longer you live in Arusha, the poorer you'll be," he said. "Don't give up your life in America. There is nothing for you here." My

Sara Tucker

#78. The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

Larry Burkett

#79. If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

Noel Gallagher

#80. Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#81. There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don't help people who don't have better values than you do.

Robert Fulghum

#82. There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#83. God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.

Julian Of Norwich

#84. The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.
One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,
because he knows that the body is nothing.

Swami Vivekananda

#85. Give away everything - even your heart, soul, and mind. Nothing is yours. Keep your experiences and your memories. Those are yours and they make you who you are.

Debasish Mridha

#86. You know, the Constitution - there's nothing like it. But it doesn't necessarily give us the right to commit suicide as a country, OK? ... We're not gonna allow the people to come into our country ... And if people want to come in, there's gonna be extreme vetting.

Donald Trump

#87. I'm grateful you entrusted me with them. But the day will come when someone will knock the sails out of you. She'll shatter every belief you had of me and you. She'll give herself completely and unconditionally; and you will too. And I'll be nothing more than a fond memory.

Senayda Pierre

#88. Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a ... You know.

Ike Turner

#89. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Ernest Hemingway,

#90. Yet all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine. ( ... ) I realize that if through science I can seize phenomena and enumerate them, I cannot, for all that, apprehend the world.

Albert Camus

#91. I HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE OR RECEIVE EXCEPT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
NOTHING COMES IN AND NOTHING GOES OUT EXCEPT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

Catherine Carrigan

#92. If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.

Laurie Notaro

#93. No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice
You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.

Jane Austen

#94. Nothing has meaning, only the meaning you give it.

Zahida A. Khan

#95. How can we give if there is nothing there? ... Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.

Marion G. Romney

#96. That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it.

Haruki Murakami

#97. Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.

Banana Yoshimoto

#98. You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

Kathleen Turner

#99. When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

Elena Ferrante

#100. There is nothing wrong with being on the bottom once in awhile, but don't stay there, women! New positions will give you new perspective, and new perspective will give you new experiences, and new experiences will give you a meaningful life.

Toni Sorenson