Nullity Quotes

#1. Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

George Gilder

#2. Dad the launching pad. Dad the landing zone. Dad the tether that kept Sams - and me - from hurtling into the nullity of deep space, a nullity himself now.

Rick Yancey

#3. It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.

Chad Harbach

#4. But it is one thing to resolve to die, quite another to actually carry out that resolve in the midst of dying. Something

N.K. Jemisin

#5. Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.

Vikrmn

#6. Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Blaise Pascal

#7. I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

Imelda May

#8. There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. The social world being the realm of nullity, there exist between the merits of women in society only insignificant degrees,

Marcel Proust

#10. Neither light nor heat could withstand it; to gaze into that nullity and to comprehend its scope was to have one's humanity snuffed. Only the inhuman thrived in out there in deep black.

Laird Barron

#11. We really fucked up the engineering on this

Walter Isaacson

#12. I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

James Dean

#13. There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture ...

Charles A. Reich

#14. People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Mignon McLaughlin

#15. ... the natural course from nullity to grandeur is to forget that you are a gramme and to feel that you are a millionth part of a ton.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#16. The region is a desert of stones, a solitude with a character of its own, an arid spot, which could only be inhabited by beings who had either attained to absolute nullity, or were gifted with some abnormal strength of soul.

Honore De Balzac

#17. We must start from what seems a be a nullity, the unknowable, the inexpressible, the creative mystery wherein we are established. We cannot become more exact than this without introducing falsehood.

D.H. Lawrence

#18. As we touch the temple and love the temple, our lives will reflect our faith. As we go to the holy house, as we remember the covenants we make therein, we will be able to bear every trial and overcome each temptation.

Thomas S. Monson

#19. Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#20. The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

Goldwin Smith

#21. Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind ... he trades with the same countries ... (that he) would have gone to war with.

Thomas Paine

#22. The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Ouida

#23. Pretend you know nothing, and you will learn everything.

Me

#24. As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation's educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

Lewis H. Lapham

#25. A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;

Michael Chabon

#26. T is by justice that we can authentically measure man's value or his nullity ... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man,

Plato

#27. I want to reconnect to my animal life.

Kesha

#28. Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

Max Weber

#29. We begin to live authentically only where philosophy ends, at its wreck, when we have understood its terrible nullity, when we have understood that it was futile to resort to it, that it is no help.

Emil Cioran

#30. I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

Eudora Welty

#31. Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

Morris Kline

#32. Tape record your parents' laughter

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#33. I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.

Thomas Jefferson