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Nothing Quotes


"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."



"I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence."


"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."


"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible."



"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."


"There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast."



"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."



"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."


"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."


"My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days."


"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."


"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."


"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."



"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."


"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."


"I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing."



"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."


"To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing."


"LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."


"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."



"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."


"If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing."


"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."



"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."


"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."


"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."



"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."


"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."


"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."


"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."



"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."


"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."


"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."


"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."


"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."


"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."
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