Top 100 Nothing When Quotes
#1. I didn't want to pretend anymore. Didn't want to keep pretending she was dead when she'd been the only person who'd ever made me feel alive. Didn't want to keep pretending she meant nothing when she meant everything.
A.L. Jackson
#2. Was terrified, and logic meant nothing when you were scared.
Kim Harrison
#3. The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. When people think you're trying, they think you're looking for something. And I'm looking for nothing. When
Danielle Pearl
#6. No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.
Catherynne M Valente
#7. Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
Rabindranath Tagore
#8. All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.
Sabaa Tahir
#9. I couldn't will my beloved Berlin streets across the world or make the people I loved appear when I needed them, but by summoning the flavors of Berlin and the foods of my loved ones, my kitchen became my sanctuary, the stove my anchor.
Distance means nothing when your kitchen smells like home.
Luisa Weiss
#10. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.
Lev Grossman
#11. You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our hearts, there is no room to boast about ourselves. We see ourselves as nothing when we get lost in this divine love.
Smith Wigglesworth
#12. When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.
Mickey Mantle
#13. It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.
Brad Warner
#14. Family wasn't just the people who had the same blood as you coursing through their veins. Family was people who needed you. Family was people who had nothing when you had everything. You had to do what was right by them. You had to, even if doing so broke your heart.
Meg Cabot
#15. Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
Karel Capek
#16. I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
Clifford Geertz
#17. Why was money worth everything when you had none of it, and nothing when you had too much?
Jeanette Winterson
#18. The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
Eli Roth
#19. Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
Max Lucado
#21. The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#22. My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.
Dave Ramsey
#23. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Jane Austen
#24. If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
Charles Edward Merriam
#25. If I lose and have nothing when this is over, you can still drop me with my guitar by parachute anywhere in America; I'll walk to the nearest roadhouse, find a pickup band and light up your night. Just because I can.
Bruce Springsteen
#26. There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.
John Banville
#27. Being successful is not about getting all the juice from a dry fruit...taking something out of someone who has nothing, when you have all
Kimberly Loskov
#28. Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.
Brian Herbert
#29. I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.
Lauren Slater
#30. I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
Chuck Klosterman
#31. Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
#32. In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#33. When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
Paul Brown
#34. You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
Muhammad Ali
#35. I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
Christy Mathewson
#37. I don't want her to feel nothing when I kiss her. I want her to feel everything.
Colleen Hoover
#38. We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.
Emil Cioran
#39. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
Jojo Moyes
#40. No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Anthony Trollope
#41. Don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
John Geddes
#43. Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
Carl Olson
#44. For me, he can walk on water, dance in the clouds. I know he can't, really, but what he can and can't do pales into nothing when I look at him.
Aleksandr Voinov
#45. Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
#46. Judge people by how they stand there and do nothing when bad shit happens. (157)
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
#47. I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'
Juicy J
#48. Not only do the oppressed lose nothing when people of conscience boycott institutions that are persistently complicit in the system of oppression; in fact, they gain enormously from the ultimate weakening of this complicity that an effective and sustained boycott leads to.
Omar Barghouti
#49. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
#50. Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel Johnson
#51. Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
Honore De Balzac
#52. You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
Plautus
#53. The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me ...
Michael Jordan
#54. The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.
Nathalia Crane
#55. Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
Tupac Shakur
#56. My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.
Fernando Pessoa
#57. The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.
Abraham Lincoln
#58. When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.
Jerold Panas
#59. He cupped her face, his eyes mingling with hers. "Stay," he whispered. "Please." She could deny him nothing when he looked at her that way. When he spoke to her that way. They'd stay for a week. Just one more week. What would it hurt?
Denise Hunter
#60. My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.
Ricky Martin
#61. Man can't say he knows nothing when saying it.
Toba Beta
#62. I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.
'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants.
Andrew Lang
#63. It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.
Andrea Jung
#64. Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Ray Knight
#65. There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed,
Soledad O'Brien
#66. I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. Everything is nothing when you got no one.
Dolly Parton
#68. What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.
John Banville
#69. I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.
Jack Caldwell
#71. To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
Rajneesh
#72. When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.
Sun Tzu
#73. The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.
M.F. Moonzajer
#74. Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.
Ovid
#75. Children surrender nothing when faced with the world: it is the world that gives up, over and over again. By so giving up, of course, it renews itself - that is the secret. Dying in order to live, that sort of thing.
Gregory Maguire
#76. Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford
#78. Trust is nothing when you have it. It's bread and milk. Basic. There's no glamour, no emotion, no drama - you just trust and that's it. Trusting someone is boring. It's a non-event. But take it away - try living without trust and suddenly your relationship is plunged into a living hellhole.
Kate Kerrigan
#79. She says you can't pretend you have nothing when you have so much.
Caroline Kepnes
#80. The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.
Arlene J. Chai
#81. To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#82. When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop.
Robert Black
#83. This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.
Elizabeth Scott
#84. How often do we lose sight of what we're really after, insisting on all or nothing, when there is so much abundance wherever we are and so many opportunities that can help us on our way?
Mark Nepo
#85. History does show that nothing means a hell of a lot more than nothing when teenagers talk. In this case, Robby knew it meant that I did not want to talk about it, so he left me alone.
Robby Brees was such a good friend.
Andrew Smith
#86. Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
Carolina Herrera
#87. When love is part of a game, it means nothing. When love is love, it means everything.
Kate McGahan
#88. There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
Giada De Laurentiis
#89. A lover loses nothing when expressing love.
Paulo Coelho
#90. It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.
Darryl Pinckney
#91. It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren't certain of the outcome.
Joelle Charbonneau
#92. A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
Honore De Balzac
#93. When you come into the world you have nothing ... when you leave you have nothing ... and in between there's the IRS.
Bob Thaves
#94. My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
M.I.A.
#95. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Samuel Johnson
#96. in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#97. How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
Karen Thompson Walker
#98. Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)
Cassandra Clare
#99. An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson
#100. For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.
Daniel Goleman
