Quotes about nothing

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“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.”

“Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”

“The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

“Nothing but good times ahead.”

“The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.”

“His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion.”

“Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.”

“There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off… and neither does she.”

“Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”

“I narrowed my eyes at it. Ming-de’s little gift, I assumed. “You look better in color,” I snapped.
He sent me a sultry look over his shoulder. “Really? Most women think I look better in nothing at all.”

“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”

“Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.”

“Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.”

“The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.”

“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

“Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.”

“She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.”

“His kisses were gifts. He kissed with everything he had, with power and passion and hunger and love. He held nothing back, giving everything, exposing everything.”

“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”

“nothing she did
or said

was quite
what she meant

but still her life
could be called a monument

shaped in a slant
of available light

and set to the movement
of possible music”

“Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.”

“I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.”

“I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”

“To hell with sweet nothings. Dirty little somethings are my choice any day of the week.”

“Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.”

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility”

“There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.”

“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.”

“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”

“Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.”

“Nothing is ever easy”

“If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.”

“All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)”

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

“I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years."
"There is nothing we can do to correct the questionable judgments of our ancestors," Lucian said.
Magnus hated this guy.”

“The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less”

“There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives…”

“I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.”

“For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.”

“HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.”

“It won't be pleasant."
"Nothing ever is.”

“I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.”

“So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?”

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”

“The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelt shorter: ‘Paralysis.”

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”

“Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.”

“Cause nothing said lovin' like a shitload of motion detectors.”

“There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.”

“Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.”

“Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness… Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through…”

“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”

“You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?"

"Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-"

"My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.”

“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”

“Thank you for nothing, you stupid reptile.”

“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!”

“But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body”

“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”

“There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.”

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

“But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us."
"You are mortal; you age; you die," the Queen said dismissively. "If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?”

“There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.”

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”

“Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

“I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn't in love with Mark. I'll never be in love with anyone again who isn't you.”

“Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.”

“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”

“There's nothing happy about having your fate decided for you! You have to grab your own happiness!”

“Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.”

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

“I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.”

“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.”

“Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.”

“From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.”

“People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.”

“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)”

“We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!”

“When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.”

“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”

“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”

“Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do”

“I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.”

“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”

“What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.”

“…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.”

“it's just business nothing personal…”

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”

“It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.”