“"We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it".”

— Bono

CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)

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Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

James Jones book Whistle

Introduction for his unfinished novel, Whistle (1978) the third part of his war trilogy (which was completed by Willie Morris); quoted in TIME magazine (13 March 1978) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919437,00.html

“Julia's original email says, "We have nothing to lose." But in the end they lost everything — their company, their lives, everything. And the ironic thing is, the procedure worked. The swarm actually solved the problem they had set for it.”

Michael Crichton Prey

Prey (2002)

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“Google knows everything about us but we know nothing about Google.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“We did not get everything we wanted, no. The world is not perfect now, and is that why some of us think we accomplished nothing?”

Katharine Kerr (1944) American writer

Context: Why do you think nothing concrete and lasting happened out of the 60s? Lots of people have been saying this lately, and I can't help feeling that the changes were so profound and total that no one remembers that there were changes! The 50s, my friends, happened in a different country than this one. We did not get everything we wanted, no. The world is not perfect now, and is that why some of us think we accomplished nothing? … Try to remember what life was like in the 50s. That's all I can say to that. It's the power structures that are trying to pretend that the change wasn't lasting, so they can convince people that protests and the like are futile now.
But they lie. I'm glad to see that many young people aren't buying it.

“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it… But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.”

Joseph Boyden book The Orenda

Source: The Orenda

“To define what we are is to reduce and distort what we are: to say that we are nothing but our desires or nothing but our self-interest is to misrepresent us.”

Eric Maisel (1947) American writer

Source: The Atheist’s Way (2009), p. 62

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