The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.
~By Trey Parker ~
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.
~By Mark Edwards ~
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
~By Frank Murphy ~
At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
~By Paula Danziger ~
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
~By Luther Burbank ~
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
~By Erykah Badu ~
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
~By Robert South ~
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
~By Algernon H. Blackwood ~
Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.
~By Kelly Preston ~
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
~By Scott Adams ~
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
~By Karl Marx ~
I have nothing to hide.
~By Linda Tripp ~
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
~By Wally Amos ~
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
~By Scotty Bowman ~
The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
~By Nancy Astor ~
For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.
~By Rumer Godden ~
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
~By Hanoi Hannah ~
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
~By Ben Okri ~
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
~By Marsilio Ficino ~
Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
~By Ted Rall ~
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
~By Catherine Drinker Bowen ~
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
~By Bill Walsh ~
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
~By Willie Stargell ~
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
~By Gary Lucas ~
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
~By Harold Coffin ~
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
~By Redd Foxx ~
Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
~By John Draper ~
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.
~By Susan Dey ~
If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.
~By Dave Barry ~
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
~By Elias Canetti ~
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
~By Sophocles ~
There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
~By Ron Paul ~
I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.
~By John Buford ~
There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
~By Pat Sajak ~
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
~By George C. Williams ~
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
~By Tommy Lee Jones ~
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
~By Allan Bloom ~
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
~By Danica Patrick ~
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
~By Stendhal ~
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
~By Arthur Wellesley ~
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
~By Denis Diderot ~
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.
~By Dana Hill ~
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
~By Olivia Newton-John ~
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
~By Dee Hock ~
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
~By Henry Miller ~
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
~By Richard Brautigan ~
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.
~By Duncan Hunter ~
When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
~By Jim McDermott ~
Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.
~By Brent Musburger ~
Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
~By Max Schmeling ~
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!
~By Eva Green ~
I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
~By Arlene Dahl ~
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
You wear nothing but you wear it so well.
~By Dave Matthews ~
Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.
~By Bernhard Goetz ~
Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
~By George Ade ~
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
~By Paul Harris ~
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
~By Sam Ewing ~
Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
~By Ben Shahn ~
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
~By Richard Rorty ~
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
There is nothing so stable as change.
~By Bob Dylan ~
In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.
~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
~By Markus Wolf ~
I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.
~By Mary Pierce ~
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
~By Goodman Ace ~
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