“"But, doctor, what will happen to my teeth and bones if I stop drinking milk?" Nothing. Nothing that wouldn't have happened anyway.”

— Frank Oski

Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 50

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American pediatrician 1932–1996

Frank Oski (1932–1996) American pediatrician

Nothing. Nothing that wouldn't have happened anyway.
Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 50

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
And nothing
happens! Nothing … Silence … Waves.
— Nothing happens? Or Has everything happened,
and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?”

Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet

"Oceans", as translated by Robert Bly; quoted in Opening Our Moral Eye : Essays, Talks & Poems Embracing Creativity & Community (1996) by Mary Caroline Richards.

“Ever since I alone have been aware of what happens to me, nothing happens to me.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Desde que yo solo sé qué me sucede, no me sucede nada.
Voces (1943)

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”

Fay Weldon (1931) English author, essayist and playwright

Life Force (1992) Source: [Kakutani, Michiko, 1992-02-07, Books of The Times; Fallout From a Multitude of Liaisons, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/books/books-of-the-times-fallout-from-a-multitude-of-liaisons.html, New York Times, 2020-02-12]

“If I have my civil rights then this message wouldn't have happen”

Jared Lee Loughner (1988) Charged with 2011 Tucson shooting

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December 8, 2010, video posting — www.kgun9.com, 9OYS Investigates: Who is Jared Loughner?, KGUN9, January 8, 2011, 2011-01-10 http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13809065,