Top 100 Nothing But Quotes
#1. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.
George MacDonald
#3. Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention ... Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.
Eknath Easwaran
#4. Mothers never worry over nothing, but it is true that sometimes we worry over things we can't control.
Mette Ivie Harrison
#5. You've no idea what it's like to crave human contact to the point that it permeates your entire being with a need so strong that at times it makes you wonder if you've gone mad and that your whole life is nothing but a fucked-up delusion brought on by the insanity.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. I an not saying that religious ideas are nothing but a cover for political motives [...]. Instead, I intend to show that religious insights and moral choices, in actual experience, coincide with practical ones.
Elaine Pagels
#7. Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
George Santayana
#8. A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
Woody Guthrie
#10. Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.
Haruki Murakami
#11. Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.
Gene Edwards
#12. I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.
Neil Gaiman
#13. If human beings weren't 'dumbable' enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#14. The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer's life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.
Sol Luckman
#15. In the eleventh century obese English king William the Conqueror took to bed and consumed nothing but alcohol to shed pounds, a practice many of his countrymen seem to continue to this day.
David Sax
#16. There is no such thing as matter at all, and that the world consists of nothing but minds and their ideas. Hylas
Bertrand Russell
#17. You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.
John Mulaney
#18. ThinK: for a thin sneaking into a vast sea of Knowledge, and the water enables the clarity to see through.
The Hindu mythology has it that thinner than water is nothing but Knowledge.
Higher the cutting edge clarity, higher is the productivity.
Priyavrat Thareja
#19. God, think of the great men that have nibbled on me, and now I'm nothing but a snack for a virus - something that can't even decide if it's a plant or an animal.
Robert Patrick
#20. It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.
Nancy Hale
#21. In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.
Peter Rollins
#22. Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel.
Denis Diderot
#23. You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.
Leonard Mlodinow
#24. Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
#25. Everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me.
Hermann Hesse
#26. Scared people did scary things sometimes, even kids. Sam knew that from personal experience. Fear could be dangerous. Fear could get people hurt. And there was nothing but fear running crazy through the school.
Michael Grant
#27. All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#28. You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world.
Debasish Mridha
#29. The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
B.C. Forbes
#30. Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert
#31. Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.
John Climacus
#32. That I will bow before no one and nothing but my crown.
Sarah J. Maas
#33. I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.
Charles Mingus
#34. The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it. Hence,
John Calvin
#35. My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
Xavier Becerra
#36. Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!
William C. Brown
#37. Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#38. Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
Thomas Brooks
#39. Maybe this will be the summer when there is nothing but laughter. Maybe this will be the summer.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#40. Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.
Shameik Moore
#41. Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana
#42. With Peter O'Toole, you just had nothing but fun.
Alex Rocco
#43. So, you think your coffee-addicted mother is amusing." She pushed at his shoulder. "I'll get even with you. I'll show your naked baby pictures to your girlfriend." ~ Chapter 9 The Truth and Nothing but Lies
Cheri Vause
#44. Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#45. We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.
Ferdinand Marcos
#46. When you are nothing but pessimistic you are the enabling force of impossibility.
Bryant McGill
#47. No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
John Mortimer
#48. I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
Mickey Mantle
#49. Different 'philosophies' represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.
Alfred Korzybski
#50. I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
Will Rogers
#51. The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.
Thomas Huxley
#52. I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
Katherine Mansfield
#53. Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry,
Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam
And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.
Richard Wilbur
#54. Everyone needs to have support from people who care about them, but ultimately if we don't work hard and do our part, those dreams are nothing but wishes, fantasy.
Cindy Ray Hale
#55. If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.
Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#56. Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#57. Life is nothing but a clump of mud; your thoughts define which statue you can mold out of it.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
John Brown
#59. We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money ... Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
John Vianney
#60. From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables.
CLAMP
#61. It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
Zac Efron
#62. It felt nothing but right. Nothing but perfect. But
Marissa Meyer
#63. You know sometimes I wish I'd been born a kender. No worries. No cares. No responsibilities. Nothing but pork chops. See you tonight Brother. I'd ask you to say a prayer but we're up to our eyeballs in gods as it is.
Margaret Weis
#64. Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
William Faulkner
#65. I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.
George Meyer
#66. It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga ... It's just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.
Bikram Choudhury
#70. On the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#71. She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She had left her home in response to his kind words, only to find that this belief had been nothing but the conceit of an ignorant girl.
Noriko Ogiwara
#72. I know I deserve nothing, but if you want me I'm yours.
Lauren Myracle
#73. I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
David Hume
#74. The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.
Anne Rice
#75. At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with a rudimentary sense of humor - the kind that finds feeding firecrackers wrapped in bread to seagulls unutterably funny.
Stephen King
#76. A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
Plato
#78. ...Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches, investing our will, hearts, sweat, and money while the critics spent nothing but words.
Delfi Messinger
#79. You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst.
Ainslie Hogarth
#80. Our unhappy trek through the wreck of the New South Africa begins with the facts, nothing but the facts.
Ilana Mercer
#81. Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
#82. In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.
Pierre Bourdieu
#84. Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
Donald Sutherland
#85. The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.
Will Rogers
#86. All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
Anna Quindlen
#87. You are nothing but a bird with an attitude.
Susan Ee
#88. What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
Dorothy Richardson
#90. Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?
Alexander McCall Smith
#91. A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.
William C. Brown
#92. (F)or it was the belief of the duchy that no nation can be governed well unless there is a majority which can impose its will upon a minority. A complete balance of pros and antis could produce nothing but deadlock.
Leonard Wibberley
#93. A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
Charles Baudelaire
#94. Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing but an illusion.
Leo Tolstoy
#96. I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.
Paul Thek
#97. All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.
David Zindell
#98. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.
David Hume
#99. Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.
Philip Stubbs
#100. I lie constantly. All the time. I'm nothing but one big mass of lies.
Kiersten White
