Top 100 Nothing The Quotes
#1. Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.
Susanna Clarke
#2. To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.
Samuel Shem
#3. The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?
Jean Rhys
#4. There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
Adam McKay
#5. There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#7. Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.
Jules Michelet
#8. I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.
George Sand
#9. The more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.
Leo Tolstoy
#11. In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
George Bernard Shaw
#12. In an era when most bands were about nothing, the Manics were about everything: an eloquent scream, a j'accuse to the entire moribund millennium.
Simon Price
#13. Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen.
Ben Fountain
#14. She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.
Joseph Fink
#16. The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.
Jonathan Ive
#17. How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?
Susane Colasanti
#18. When we're with other people and they say nothing, the situation becomes irritating, tense, unbearable.
Paulo Coelho
#20. The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire ...
Gay Hendricks
#21. Science has "explained" nothing; ... the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness ...
Aldous Huxley
#22. Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing.
Joan Didion
#23. The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing.
Leo Buscaglia
#24. Nothing in this life is guaranteed. Nothing. The things you love are like the puffs of a dandelion weed; they grow wild and happen as they will.
Bette Lee Crosby
#25. They talked about fishing, food, winds and stonework; about growing tomatoes, keeping poultry and roasting lamb, catching crayfish and scallops; telling tales, jokes; the meaning of their stories nothing, the drift of them everything; the brittle and beautiful dream itself.
Richard Flanagan
#26. The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul
#27. You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
Sarah Bernhardt
#28. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Seneca The Younger
#29. (Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.) At
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#30. There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.
Pope Francis
#31. What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, the trouble of the world!
Victor Hugo
#32. There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
G.K. Chesterton
#33. It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." ... "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." JOHN 6:63, 68 (NKJV)
Andrew Murray
#34. I must admit it's a surprise to find myself still here, still talking to you. I prefer to think of it as talking, although of course it isn't: I'm saying nothing, you're hearing nothing. The only thing between us is this black line: a thread thrown onto the empty page, into the empty air.
Margaret Atwood
#35. She can love one minute and feel nothing the next, not even anger or pain, because after a while those, too, will pass.
Patricia Cornwell
#36. People who shout so loud, my lords, do nothing; the only men I fear are silent men
Oscar Wilde
#37. As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.
Marianne Williamson
#38. Heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal's
Karen Marie Moning
#39. If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors ... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.
Sean Duffy
#40. Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
Cormac McCarthy
#41. There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.
Amanda Lear
#42. I do not believe in sitting on a problem. Because the longer you sit on that thing, the longer it'll irritate you. If you're keeping it to yourself, there's nothing the guy you're mad at can do to fix it, either, because you haven't told him why you're mad.
Bo Schembechler
#43. But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts
#44. Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.
Jock Stein
#45. Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
Arnold Bennett
#46. Good-by,'! he said to all those who were kneeling. 'Don't be said. To die is nothing. The only bad thing is to die at the hands of this canalla.
Ernest Hemingway,
#47. The sickness is to sit at the base of the lighthouse staring into nothing. The lighthouse is black, the sea is black, the writer's jacket is also black.
Roberto Bolano
#48. To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.
James Stephens
#49. Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing. The
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#50. Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.
Andre Gide
#51. The feeling of uselessness is no respecter of age and never asks permission, but instead corrodes people's souls, repeating over and over: 'No one is interested in you, you're nothing, the world doesn't need your presence.
Paulo Coelho
#52. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.
Charles Bukowski
#53. Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
Juvenal
#54. When a woman thinks she is nothing, the little sparrows cry.
Who can defend them on the terrace , if no one has the vision of a world without slingshots?
Fatema Mernissi
#55. The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#56. Nothing - the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
Aldous Huxley
#57. perfectly in his mind that it felt like a memory. "Who killed her?" he asked quietly. Odilia stared straight ahead, saying nothing. The hymn ended and Whillans raised his hands. "Let us pray.
Mark Wheaton
#58. Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
Billie Jean King
#59. There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.
W. Somerset Maugham
#60. Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both everything and nothing. The signals are everywhere.
Craig Clevenger
#61. There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.
Jack London
#62. The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt Whitman
#63. Fear nothing; the Spirit of Love will give you wings.
Katy Tackes
#64. People spent their lives searching for something beyond the simple friction of skin on skin, but there was nothing. The void between two people could never be closed, and in trying to close it, they would only learn everything that was to be despised in the other.
Maggie Shipstead
#65. We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.
Lucy Larcom
#66. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion - good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.
Dan Brown
#67. What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.
Oscar Wilde
#68. Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.
Paul Bloom
#69. There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.
Jeffrey Goldberg
#71. Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus
#72. Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
Anzia Yezierska
#73. And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.
D.H. Lawrence
#74. The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
#75. Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.
Gale Sayers
#76. There is nothing the heart doesn't already have. It's the mind that thinks it needs something more.
Michael Hetherington
#77. One must speak little. In action one must say nothing. The chief is the one who does not speak.
Charles De Gaulle
#78. Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
C.S. Lewis
#79. There is nothing the Lord has asked of us that in faith we cannot accomplish.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#80. Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.
Salman Rushdie
#81. I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.
Susan B. Anthony
#82. 63. The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you - they are full of the Spirit[34] and life.
Anonymous
#83. I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
Martin Luther
#84. Parliament banned the wearing of political uniforms in public. That finished them. If they couldn't strut up and down in their black shirts they were nothing. The
Ken Follett
#85. There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly. He escapes necessity because he wills what necessity is going to force on him.
Seneca.
#86. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing.
Paul Auster
#88. I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
Andrea Bocelli
#89. I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself ... Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.
Roxane Gay
#90. You're not that good a fuck, and really, what else do you have?'
Nothing. The answer was nothing. That was why the idea of Carnac targeting Warrick terrified him so much, because Carnac, bastard though he was, had so much more that Warrick might want. So much more than him.
Manna Francis
#91. The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.
Henry Hazlitt
#92. I never think of nothing. The closest I come to a blank mind is when I am counting, fucking, or drinking. The rest of the time, my thoughts are like a hamster on a wheel, running endlessly but getting nowhere.
Megan Hart
#93. The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.
Jeb Bush
#94. One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#95. In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process
Isaac Asimov
#96. [T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.
Antony C. Sutton
#97. Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
Aristotle.
#98. We may love to say many things, but if these are not uttered in the Holy Spirit it is better to say nothing. The flesh can conjure up many plans and methods and be full of expectations. The righteousness of the flesh is as abhorrent as its sin we must always maintain God's view of the flesh.
Watchman Nee
#99. Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect. This is the most perfect world, this moment lacks nothing - the experience of this is what enlightenment is.
Rajneesh
#100. To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.
K Callan
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