Quotes about nothing
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Mike cuts feed to music early
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mWemE3fcVXo
On the conflict in Gaza
Les Loix du Mouvement et du Repos, déduites d'un Principe Métaphysique (1746)
Kneller, Karl Alois. 1911. pp. 18. Christianity and the Leaders of Modern Science https://archive.org/stream/christianitylead00kneluoft#page/18/mode/2up. London.
Variant translation: "From the bottom of my heart I say a true philosophy can and should be nothing but a propaganda for the Christian religion." (in Western Christian Advocate, Volume 77. 1911. Methodist Church
Original: Aus vollem Herzen rufe ich es aus: Eine richtige Philosophie darf und kann nichts anderes sein als eine Propädeutik für die christliche Religion. (As quoted in "Robert Mayer und das Energieprinzip, 1842-1942: Gedenkschrift zur 100. Wiederkehr der Entdeckung des Energieprinzips" (1942), p. 328
In Renoir's letter to Paul Durand-Ruel, from Guernsey, 27 Sept, 1883; as cited in 'Renoir in Guernsey' (in 1883), text by John House http://museums.gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=81297&p=0, Guernsey museum
1880's
As quoted in an interview with Sudha Chandran, Gulf Today/Panorama, November 24, 2000
“Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?”
Usque adeone<br/>scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
Usque adeone
scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
Satire I, line 26.
The Satires
1840s, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (1846)
“Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.”
Life Thoughts (1858)
Letter to Abtzell February 12, 1526 (vi., 473), ibid, p.250-251
Source: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1990), p. 104
Awadh (Uttar Pradesh), Mir‘at-i-Mas‘udi in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own historians, Vol. II. p. 524-547
BBC Training "Interviews from hell" http://www.bbctraining.com/modules/2604/hell2.html. BBC INFAX http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/SX+28015_9
BBC Interview, 21 June 1962
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 1
“The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.”
Hopper's answer to journalists -quoted by Avis Berman in 'Hopper, the Supreme American Realist of the 20th Century' Smithsonian Magazine June 2007
1941 - 1967
“There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.”
Fated to be Free (1875)
On January 5, 1918, on the eve of Armenian Christmas. Attributed without citation in [Death of Aram Manoukian - January 29, 1919, http://thisweekinarmenianhistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/death-of-aram-manoukian-january-29-1919.html, thisweekinarmenianhistory.com, 29 January 2013, 15 March 2014]
Letter to Mathew Carey (11 November 1816). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 12 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Jefferson0136/Works/0054-12_Bk.pdf, p. 42
1810s
“Contrary to earlier prejudices, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 178)
Alan Watts Blues
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY
Girl, Interrupted (1994)
"The Painted Skin" from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740), as translated by John Minford in Strange tales from a Chinese studio (2006), p. 521
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book II. Onward to Colchis, Lines 1015–1029
Quote from 'Note on Painting', Robert Rauschenberg, in Pop Art Redefined, October/November 1963, J. Rusell and Suzi Gablik, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1969
1960's
What I've Learned (July 2002)
“Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.”
A Long Story; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 541.
“The Book-End,” Columbus Dispatch (1923) Collecting Himself (1989).
From other writings
“In America nothing dies easier than tradition.”
"A Little Bones Trouble," The New York Times (1991-05-14)
Conference of Military Reporters and Editors (October 2003)
Source: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 69, 77, 358
Visions of Politics (2002), "Interpretation, rationality and truth"
“Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 10, “King Hemlock” (p. 142).
Astral Weeks
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)
Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. 8 ("dragqueen", "dragqueens", & hyphens (not en- or em-dashes) so in original).
Nahj al-Balagha
Regarding how he comes up with ideas for his comic strips The Goodbye Family and The Noodle Rut (1 June 2017).
Source: Lorin Morgan-Richards Newsletter #2, Us6.campaign-archive2.com, 2017-06-26 http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=51e751ef352e602deca0ecdc7&id=2e82f26313,
Bobby Robson, former manager of England, 2006 ( Source http://www.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/football/05/08/england.gamble/index.html)
About
Life of Theseus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
As quoted in Great Climbs: A Celebration of World Mountaineering (1994) by Sir Chris Bonington
"Secret O' Life"
Song lyrics, JT (1977)
Remarks by the President at Virginia Tech Memorial Convocation http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070417-1.html (April 17, 2007)
2000s, 2007
"This Floundering Old Bastard is the Best Damn Poet in Town", interview by John Thomas, in LA Free Press (1967)
Interviews
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“It will lead to nothing, I fear, sir”
Remarked to William Palmer, on the eve of his 1840-1 journey to Russia to improve Anglican-Orthodox relations. The trip reaped little success; quoted in Notes of a Visit to the Russian Church in the Years 1840, 1841, by William Palmer, 1882, p. 10.
25 October 2000, House of Commons, Prime Minister's Questions.
2000
“Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.”
Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Letter to Lord Grenville (25 May 1809) on the Duke of Wellington's successes in the Peninsular War, quoted in Rory Muir, Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807-1815 (Yale University Press, 1996), p. 94.
1800s
“Nothing is better than a justified enthusiasm.”
The Pursuit of God (1957)
Wollen wir etwa die Pädagogik den Philosophen in die Hände spielen? Nichts weniger als das! Sie würden sich ungeschickt genug benehmen. Denen allein werde sie anvertraut, die mehr sind als Philosophen, darum aber auch unendlich mehr als Humanisten oder Realisten.
Source: The False Principle of our Education (1842), p. 19
Source: The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times (1945), p. 289
Douglas Jerrold's Wit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
March 15
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
Letter to Cassandra (1813-09-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Responding to the question, "what did the United States have to gain by intervening in Somalia?", regarding Operation Provide Relief/Operation Restore Hope/Battle of Mogadishu.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, Sovereignty and World Order, 1999
This quote was taken from the Synergy's Echoes page ( December, 1991 Houston, Texas, KLOL FM Echoes of Exposure with David Sadoff ).
"The State of the Union," The Nation (13 September 2004)
2000s
Speech to the Birmingham Artisans' Association at Birmingham Town Hall (5 January 1885), quoted in ‘Mr. Chamberlain At Birmingham.’, The Times (6 January 1885), p. 7.
1880s
Who hopes in God's help, his help can not start:
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart,
And will may win my heart, herein to consent,
To take all things as it comes, and be content.
Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" - Theosophy Vol. 26, No. 8 (June 1938) http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/bruno.html
On his training for warfare in the Pacific at the Naval War college in 1922, as quoted at The American Experience (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/peopleevents/pandeAMEX90.html
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), p. 110
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007).
Quote from video posted a day after both her YouTube channels were suspended (have been reinstated), two days after being laid off, and about a month after the cause of her worsening chronic pain was diagnosed as fibromyalgia (no cure or effective treatment). "Update 12/12/08" (12 December 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHYdRwaLQN0&feature=related
Atkins v. Virginia (2002) (dissenting).
2000s
“The War on Reason,” The Atlantic, March 2014, pp. 64–70
The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory, N. Roth, trans. (2014), p. 60 http://books.google.com/books?id=lJQIBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA60
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 19, “The Ruined Woman” (p. 310)
Now, that's where we are.
Coverage of Southern Republican Leadership Conference, CSPAN, 2010-04-08
2010-04-09
Gingrich: Obama is "the most radical president in American history"
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004090011
2011-03-30
2010s