Top 100 Quotes About Nothing
#1. I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love ...
David Bowie
#2. The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories.
Abhijit Naskar
#3. When I get into relationships, I'm an all-or-nothing person. I just completely give in to the person. It becomes my first priority in life; family, friends and career follow.
Sonam Kapoor
#4. Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
Suetonius
#5. Creation comes before distribution
or there will be nothing to distribute.
Ayn Rand
#6. Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything!
Jeanette Winterson
#7. Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
Ann Patchett
#9. Spirits ... Ghosts ... Angels ... whichever yo wish to call them - Reader, they do exist. I've seem them all my life, but I've learned to say nothing. And for all you cynics out there, just remember, there is no proof either way. So I choose to believe. In my opinion, it's much the best option.
Lucinda Riley
#10. I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians.
Stephen Harper
#11. I was quite sure I was crazy, and it was amazing that as soon as I admitted it, I became quite calm. There was nothing I could do about it. I seemed relatively harmless. After
Katherine Paterson
#12. I see you in my mind crisp and concise and I will stop at nothing to make the vision reality.
Robert McGinley
#13. O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.
Ordericus Vitalis
#14. People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Donald Miller
#15. The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.
Kelly Preston
#17. I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?
Kate Winslet
#19. Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor.
Judy Croome
#20. You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.
Peter Furler
#21. Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time.
Jennifer Egan
#22. There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
Joe Abercrombie
#24. I've got nothing to do today except to drink the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#25. A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
Warren Buffett
#26. Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.
Robert Holden
#28. In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.
Wes Craven
#29. The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but ... what we are meant to be.
Madeleine L'Engle
#30. In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
Lionel Messi
#31. Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#32. Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#33. Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#34. She hadn't listened.she never did.maybe she did deserve to die after all, if nothing else, then just for her sheer stupidity.and for the way she'd treated James too
Elle Aycart
#35. During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#36. Cicero was nothing if not a genius at character assassination.
Anthony Everitt
#37. Mephistopheles: Over! A stupid word. How so over? Over and pure nothing: completely the same thing! "It's over now!" What's that supposed to mean? It's as good as if it never was.
Jonathan Franzen
#38. Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.
Sondra Kraak
#39. At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.
Teri Hatcher
#40. I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.
Philippa Gregory
#41. Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.
Ronald Rolheiser
#43. I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past. Anyone
G.K. Chesterton
#44. The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.
Mark Strong
#45. But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
Ernest Hemingway,
#46. No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
E.B. White
#47. The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.
David Lloyd George
#48. My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#49. But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. There is nothing wrong with people that reasoning with them won't aggravate!
Sam Horn
#51. It will be worth it, if in the end I manage
To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage.
Then there will be nothing I know.
My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.
Philip Larkin
#52. A film in cinema is what in theatre would be realism - and vice versa.
In cinema - as in life - the text, the words, are refracted in everything
apart from the words themselves. The words mean nothing
words are water.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#53. So if you post it, you are awesome and "wow" and so on and so on. But if I post it as a first... nothing --- wtf???
Deyth Banger
#54. If you knew the kind of little miracles happening every moment you breathe in, you wouldn't be able to handle it. A valve could close and not open; an artery could split, you could die. At any moment. It's nothing but miracles inside your tiny city.
Sally Thorne
#55. But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
William Barclay
#56. home. She would have sat in her armchair on the veranda with a pot of tea and a book. As if nothing had happened, as if the world out there were just as unchanged as her comfortable study.
Maxim Leo
#57. Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.
Keanu Reeves
#58. Live for nothing die for something!!
Rambo
#59. The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.
Andy Graham
#60. It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.
Graydon Carter
#61. For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.
Northrop Frye
#62. You can't kill a nightmare, but you can scare it. And there's nothing so feared by nightmares as milk and cookies.
Fredrik Backman
#63. Whether you have an Iphone, Android, Canon, Nikon, or Panasonic, it won't matter if you don't have it on you. My point is, bring your camera with you. At the very least have your phone. The quality of most phone cameras has improved drastically and will be better than nothing.
Eric Dahlin
#64. Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
Charlotte Bronte
#65. Nothing can be achieved without hope or confidence. Be sure you always have both!
Denise Austin
#66. I'll call you. Take care." And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen," I say, "... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals.
Sylvia Plath
#67. If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it ...
Benjamin Franklin
#69. Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
Walter Moers
#70. Nothing on earth can function successful outside the laws of the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#71. Your parents are your projection-nothing more.
Byron Katie
#72. Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
Billie Jean King
#73. You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.
James Carville
#74. You ask me some questions
And I give you some answers
But nothing that would make you understand.
David Levithan
#75. Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.
Chris Matthews
#76. (F)or it was the belief of the duchy that no nation can be governed well unless there is a majority which can impose its will upon a minority. A complete balance of pros and antis could produce nothing but deadlock.
Leonard Wibberley
#77. I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.
Nicholas Stoller
#79. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan
#80. I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#81. For a peace wrought in blood is nothing short of tyranny.
Jocelyn Murray
#82. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.
Claire Keegan
#83. Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
Shunryu Suzuki
#84. Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
W. H. Auden
#85. Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
Gautama Buddha
#86. A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
Northrop Frye
#87. It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.
James L. Petigru
#88. There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.
Tim Scott
#89. There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.
Joe Montana
#91. Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.
J.C. Ryle
#92. Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.
Daniel Handler
#93. What we knew is dead, and maybe the greatest part of what we were is dead. What's out there is new and perhaps good, but it's nothing we know.
John Steinbeck
#94. Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing but an illusion.
Leo Tolstoy
#95. Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
Gayle Forman
#96. What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.
Sam Hamill
#97. I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
Witold Gombrowicz
#98. A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
Charles Baudelaire
#99. I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Paul Cezanne
#100. I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.
Emily Giffin
