Top 100 Nothing He Quotes
#1. Assume nothing,'" he said. The first chapter of the Tactics. "If we figure everyone might be a murderer, we're less likely to be disappointed.
Brian Staveley
#2. She was everything he'd ever wanted in a woman, and nothing he'd ever thought to find in a lady.
Eloisa James
#3. A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention to what his enemies, the zealots and those who envy him have to say.
Orhan Pamuk
#4. It is over, isn't it?" Trustingly, he seemed to be waiting for her to tell him, as if she would know. As if hearing himself say it meant nothing; he had a dubious attitude toward his own words; they didn't become real, not until she agreed.
"It's over," she said.
Philip K. Dick
#5. Oak had nothing finished and ready to say as yet, and not being able to frame love phrases which end where they begin; passionate tales - Full of sound and fury
- signifying nothing - he said no word at all.
Thomas Hardy
#6. What's wrong with him?"
"Nothing. He's just. just." "Just what?"
"A peacemaker." And she'd dropped her voice to a whisper. "What would I do with a peacemaker?" "The same thing I did with a whore.
G.A. Aiken
#7. When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#8. Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole."
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.
Rick Riordan
#9. There was nothing he was going through that the stars had not seen before, somewhere, some time on this earth.
M.L. Stedman
#10. There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
Bing Crosby
#11. Nothing," he said. "Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.
Sherry Thomas
#12. He reasoned that, as there was nothing he could do about his feelings, he must avoid acting on them.
Richard Flanagan
#13. Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the
moon.
It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he
could be told.
It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.
It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak.
Wallace Stevens
#14. He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.
Mitch Albom
#15. Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express.
Rob Corddry
#16. Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him.
Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.
Paullina Simons
#17. For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
George Santayana
#18. There's something about Alan Arkin. Even when he's doing nothing, he makes me laugh. I've always had that reaction to him: he's got a weary world-view that makes him perfectly cast.
John Curran
#19. The person who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo Buscaglia
#20. At this question, I felt a sharp rush of despair - for as bad as I felt there was nothing he could do for me, and from his face, I realized he knew that, too.
Donna Tartt
#21. Nothing," he said softly. "It's just a real nice turtle, that's all." "You
Amy Lane
#22. Julia was like water in his hands. She'd slipped right through. Lovely and strange and unpredictable, she'd been everything he wasn't. Nothing he was used to.
Sarah Addison Allen
#23. He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work
Swami Vivekananda
#25. They say John Kerry is the first Democratic presidential candidate in history to raise $50 million in a three-month period. Actually, that's nothing. He once raised $500 million with two words: 'I do.'
Jay Leno
#26. He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would learn something new about life and gain some clue about the mystery that he had solved only to find more mysterious. And even if he found nothing he would allay the unrest which gnawed his heart.
W. Somerset Maugham
#27. He would wonder how much a man could take before he reduced himself to nothing. He
Jodi Picoult
#28. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?
Dan Simmons
#29. He had nothing he could do with is life's work now except leave it to a man who thought nothing of it.
Wendell Berry
#30. Whe you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful and polite, you have a hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true, that nothing is sincere. Maintaining nonbelief requires a tremendous effort and the proper training.
Milan Kundera
#31. If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be;
Swami Vivekananda
#32. And whenever he asked himself that one question - what wouldn't he do for the welfare of his children - the answer was always the same. There was pretty much nothing he wouldn't do for his children's sake.
Bobby Adair
#33. I laugh shakily. 'You're a little scary, Four.'
'Do me a favor,' he says, 'and don't call me that.'
'What should I call you, then?'
'Nothing.' He takes his hand from my face. 'Yet.
Veronica Roth
#34. Snoopy: So this is the last day of the year. Another complete year gone by and what have I accomplished this year that I haven't accomplished every other year? Nothing! (He smiles.) How consistent can you get?
Charles M. Schulz
#35. He would seduce her so thoroughly that she would no longer be able to conceive of herself apart from him; she would be his for the taking, anytime he wanted, anywhere, and in any way he chose to take her, able to deny him nothing. He
Karen Marie Moning
#36. In the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.
Mary Ruefle
#37. What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.
Elmore Leonard
#38. And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.
George Combe
#39. I saw a psychologist once because I thought I had depression. It cost me $100. When I left, I realised that there's nothing he could have said that would cheer me up as much as if I found a $100 bill on my way home.
Emo Philips
#40. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
Joshua Reynolds
#41. A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state.
Joseph Reese Strayer
#42. Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
George R R Martin
#43. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).
Myles Munroe
#44. A trickle of blood slid down his arm.
He felt nothing. He only saw it.
Because nothing hurt like missing her.
He suspected nothing ever would
Renee Ahdieh
#45. My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
Vivien Leigh
#46. If Christ is not everything, He is nothing. He who has Christ has everything.
Steven J. Lawson
#47. What?"
"Nothing." He laughed."You were really hungry."
"I don't need to defend my eating to anyone.And just so you know,when I'm done with this,I plan to eat three whole cookies."
"Whoa." He held up his hands."Now you're pulling out the big guns."
"I don't mess around.
Tristi Pinkston
#48. You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so ... yes, love! ...
Leo Tolstoy
#49. Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.
Timothy Keller
#50. I've come to the conclusion that a man without a cause is nothing. He has nothing to look forward to, he has nothing to work toward; he is as a man lost, wandering in the darkest part of his heart to find a deeper, better purpose in his life.
Hazel B. West
#51. Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from. I think it's instinct. Nothing he does is by chance; he's in complete control of what he's doing. He's just beautiful and unique.
Sufjan Stevens
#52. Blue hadn't expected him to come back, and she stumbled on nothing. He grabbed her just as she was about to step into the roller pan. April, who'd been doing some X-rated grinds to "Baby Got Back," immediately stopped dancing. Jack sat Blue on her feet.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#53. If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
Ang Lee
#54. Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He,
Carlos Castaneda
#55. - I want to atone -
He couldn't of course. Nothing he did now could atone fully for what he had done. But he could do one thing. Just one thing.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#57. In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.
Alessandro Baricco
#58. Brock 'Slim' Lucas looked at his oldest son, his eyes moved to his youngest son and then they slid to his wife.
And when his eyes hit her shining ones he realized he had not one thing to wish for. Not one. There was nothing he wanted.
He had it all right here.
Kristen Ashley
#59. The college dreamed on
awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It was a stream where he was to throw a stone whose faint ripple would be vanishing almost as it left his hand. As yet he had nothing, he had taken nothing.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#60. The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#61. He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have.
Anne Osterlund
#62. He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].
Pharoah Sanders
#63. A man is valued by how sincere he is, and a man is also valued by how much he knows. But if a man knows nothing, he will be regarded a fool, no matter how sincere he is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#64. Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you
either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.
John Wayne
#65. There was no one with whom to share his world, and there seemed to be nothing he could do about it. In business he could do anything, achieve anything, he refused to accept failure - but he couldn't create a woman, and he couldn't fall in love with one who simply wasn't there.
Quent Cordair
#66. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!
Tanya Masse
#67. Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'
George Whitefield
#68. All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.
Philippa Gregory
#69. Sometimes he wrote equations, or musical notation, sometimes he wrote in Latin; he refused to tell her what it was about. "Nothing," he said. "I have nothing important or original to say, yet I feel compelled to express myself, so I just write it down and let it go.
Gwendolen Gross
#70. Try as he might, Gatsby remains outside the inner sanctum and nothing he can do will allow him full access. He will never be accepted by anyone but the nouveaux riches.
Kate Maurer
#71. My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
Frank Herbert
#72. Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.
Friedrich Engels
#73. Like the trees, his roots went deep, and I daydreamed that if he wrapped me in his arms, he could safely tuck me away within his branches and hide me from the world. He was shaken by nothing. He feared noting.
Colleen Houck
#74. Because Joe was standing at the front. He'd changed. White shorts. Green shirt that hid nothing. He was barefoot too. And his feet were sexy as all hell. "Uh,
T.J. Klune
#75. When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.
Marty Rubin
#76. Don't be silly, you only catch what you fear to catch", and, fearing nothing, he saw himself immune.
Olivia Manning
#77. There is nothing," he added, "quite like the moral absolutism of the young. It's easy, as a child, to believe in good and evil, in light and dark.
Cassandra Clare
#78. What do you want from me, Snow?"
"Nothing," he says. And he means it, the actual bastard.
Rainbow Rowell
#79. Men can bed any woman," she said stiffly. "It means nothing."
He paused. "Nothing," he repeated thoughtfully. "It rarely means nothing. And sometimes, in very particular circumstances, it means a great deal.
Caroline Linden
#80. I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.
Celine
#81. Since he has nothing, since he is nothing, he can sacrifice everything.
Julia Kristeva
#82. To Sir Clement, my Lord," said I, "attribute nothing. He is the last man in the world who would have any influence over my conduct.
Fanny Burney
#83. To the extend that a man with the soul filleted out of him could be happy. Since the things he had wished for were no more, he wished for nothing. He breathed in and out. That was all.
Sebastian Barry
#84. Sidonie," he said, his voice strangely hoarse. "You are the most - I mean, you are so ... I find you ... ah, devil take it! Never mind!"
"I beg your pardon?"
"Nothing," he growled. "I misspoke. What did you say about oranges?
Liz Carlyle
#85. No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
W. Somerset Maugham
#86. Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.
Scott Peterson
#87. The hobo fell to his knees, trying to stem the flow of blood from his wide-open palm. It was impossible, and the pain was like nothing he'd ever felt before, even though he'd once been an altar boy.
Adam Millard
#88. She released him and Kleitos rubbed his neck, glaring at the two guards outside her door.
"And you do nothing?" he demanded.
Demetrius shrugged. "Our orders are quite specific, Chancellor - " "Never mind!
G.A. Aiken
#89. Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
Orville Dewey
#90. The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.
Richard M. Weaver
#91. Though you see nothing, he is acting.
Max Lucado
#92. He'd never prove it, and if he did there'd be nothing he could do about it. But it would be true, and that was something.
Nick Harkaway
#93. He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he can do. He doesn't even know if he can manage to speak.
Alice Hoffman
#94. It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing," he said. "You are like children. Afraid of the dark.
Donna Tartt
#95. Chesterton is quoted as saying, When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.
Mark Driscoll
#96. Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.
C.S. Lewis
#97. And he couldn't stand to be nothing, to know himself to be nothing. He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard. He needs at least the illusion of being understood.
Margaret Atwood
#98. Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.
Terry Pratchett
#99. He gritted his teeth, frustrated with himself, but there was nothing he could do about years past. Perhaps he could change the future.
Brandon Sanderson
#100. There is nothing, he tells me, more odious than a German. However, their women are seductive, and they make the world's most beautiful music. My employer sings me a German song. He sounds like a buffalo in distress. Afterward he makes me read to him from the Bible.
Sofia Samatar
