Top 100 Nothing Happens Quotes
#1. I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.
George Saunders
#2. Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
John Calvin
#3. What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
Ted Shackelford
#4. We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida
Gary Danielson
#5. I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow
Jeff Jarvis
#6. Without promotion, something terrible happens ... nothing!
P.T. Barnum
#7. It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.
Mark Spitz
#8. Nobody knows what tribes we came from nor what our tribal inheritance is nor what the mysteries were in the woods where the people lived that we came from. All we know is that we do not know. We know nothing about what happens to us in the nights.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles Spurgeon
#10. Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or property, but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts
that and nothing more.
Willa Cather
#11. Lily," Mom said, "we need to talk."
I don't think I'm ruining the surprise by pointing out that nothing good happens when someone starts a speech like that.
Chloe Neill
#12. I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.
Nicole Reed
#13. But that was the thing about life. Sometimes it's boring, and nothing happens. Sometimes everything happens at once. And sometimes it's just plain stupid.
Joe Kimball
#14. There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God.
Christoph Von Schmid
#15. A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
Antonin Scalia
#16. Waiting for Godot ... has achieved a theoretical impossibility - a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.
Vivian Mercier
#17. But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.
Faraaz Kazi
#18. Nothing good happens after dark ... -Daire in Betrayed
Lauree Waldrop
#19. And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.
Arnold Bennett
#20. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.
Woody Allen
#21. But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
Pearl S. Buck
#22. Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs.
Mary E. DeMuth
#23. Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
Samuel Beckett
#24. The eye of the intellect is drunk with You, the wheeling galaxy is humble before You, the ear of ecstasy is in Your hand; nothing happens without You.
The soul is bubbling with You, the heart imbibes from You, the intellect bellows in rapture; nothing happens without You.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#25. Here's what happens when you die
you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
Howard Stern
#26. Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything ... Nothing happens without a reason ... Nothing is impossible ... (Page 180).
Rosamunde Pilcher
#27. Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
Chuck Knox
#28. When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens.
Porfirio Diaz
#30. When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
Muriel Spark
#31. Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
Gloria Steinem
#32. Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
John Green
#33. Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
Gary Haugen
#34. Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.
Ezra Taft Benson
#35. Nothing good ever happens at lunch. The cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of Teenage Humiliation Rituals. And it smells gross.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#36. In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
Northrop Frye
#37. Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.
Russ Potts
#38. There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-self], right?
Dada Bhagwan
#40. Until the fear of separation is faced there can be only a life of illusion, where nothing real can exist. Until this happens there can be no knowing the stillness of peace, which is to change, in the very near future, for all humanity. The illusion of separateness can not continue to exist.
Donna Guillemette
#41. It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.
Charles Portis
#42. Nothing happens easily in our lives. To get something, you have to attract it with the power of your love.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Nothing ever happens on this globe for good without some people having their fill of laughter at first.
David Levithan
#44. Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
David Eddings
#45. The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.
Alyssa Milano
#46. What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.
Dane Cook
#47. Nothing happens to man without the permission of God ...
Euripides
#49. A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen ... Except the act of writing.
E.L. Doctorow
#50. Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
Laozi
#51. There is nothing that happens to us, not a thing we see or hear or touch that God cannot use to show us more of himself. Our lives are a daily journey in his company...
Elizabeth Sherrill
#52. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.
Lynn Jones
#53. Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
#54. I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes." He turns hot under my touch, driven by an inner resolve. "That scares me more than dying.
Victoria Aveyard
#55. Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
Colm Toibin
#56. Crap happens in everybody's life all of the time, and the quality of that person is more based on how they behave under duress than when there's nothing bad going down.
Laura Schlessinger
#57. If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
Lauren Oliver
#58. Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.
Colum McCann
#59. Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes [into the work] later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.
EL Seed
#60. I need a special-shiny-greeny-stone. I have pressed that button many times, but nothing happens.
Button? Don't you mean 'big-red-flat-pressy-thing?
I most certainly do not. It is a button. I named it after my Aunt Button.
Neil Gaiman
#61. There is much of our world, we do not see. So, it is easy to assume nothing exciting happens in our quadrant of space, but we are dead wrong. Crazy, impossible things occur all the time. We simply need to know where to look.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#62. When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#63. Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck
#64. Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
Sarah Dessen
#65. Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
#67. Don't cry," Samarra whispered, "Nothing ever happens to the brave.
Fatima Bhutto
#68. Nothing happens by itself ... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein
#70. Everything becomes ... too late, finally. You know it's going on ... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel ... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield ... finally ... there's nothing there ... save rust; bones; and the wind.
Edward Albee
#72. There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.
Coretta Scott King
#73. There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
Simone De Beauvoir
#74. Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.
Virat Kohli
#75. Nothing ever goes back to normal. All that happens is your concept of normal changes.
Allison Van Diepen
#76. Say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.
Bill Maher
#77. We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.
David LaChapelle
#78. At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.
Joseph Campbell
#79. Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Khaled Hosseini
#80. You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
Alec Sulkin
#81. If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.
David Sills
#82. I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
Taki Theodoracopulos
#83. I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
Heath Ledger
#84. The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.
J.C. Ryle
#85. I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
Frank McCourt
#86. When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.
Michel Martelly
#87. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.
Kobo Abe
#88. In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
William S. Burroughs
#89. Most of the time
99 percent of the time
you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.
Lauren Oliver
#90. [Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.
Jim Parsons
#91. Change is possible if you allow it to happen. Nothing in life is constant; it's always evolving and that's how life happens for me. Through my adversities I can reach new heights.
Chimnese Davids
#92. Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.
Charles Stross
#93. I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.
A.A. Milne
#94. Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.
Michael Jackson
#96. I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me ... I'm the one happening.
Denis Johnson
#97. Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.
James Brolin
#98. I don't like the climate, the people, their way of life. Nothing ever happens and then one morning you wake up and find that you are 65.
William Faulkner
#99. Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.
Joe Biden
#100. It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.
John Holt
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