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Nothing Quotes
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
249
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
222
"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible."
198
"I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence."
188
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
179
"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
170
"There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast."
164
"My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days."
160
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
160
"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
155
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
153
"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."
126
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
114
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
107
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
99
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space."
94
"I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing."
94
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
91
"To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing."
91
"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."
90
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
90
"LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."
89
"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."
84
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."
83
"I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter."
82
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
80
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
80
"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
80
"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say."
79
"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."
78
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."
77
"If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing."
77
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
75
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
75
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
72
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
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