Fragments of Melissus's On Nature, Fragment 1
“Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Address to fleet officers (August 11, 1917), quoted in Joseph P. Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him (1921), p. 297 https://books.google.com/books?id=f3xw1nfcn14C&vq=%22Nothing%20was%20ever%22&pg=PA297#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1910s
“People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.”
Celia Green (1935) British philosopher
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
A New Earth (2005)
Variant: Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
C. L. Moore (1911–1987) American author
In a 1980 interview with Jean W. Ross, published in Contemporary Authors Vol. 104 (1982)
“If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
Niven's Laws
Context: 6) It is easier to destroy than create.
Bin Laden tore down the World Trade Center? Let's see him build one. If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever.
“When what came next didn’t matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 46 (p. 472)
Simon R. Green (1955) British writer
Source: Drinking Midnight Wine
