If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
~By Auberon Herbert ~
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
~By George Eliot ~
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
~By Lord Byron ~
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
~By Umberto Eco ~
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
~By Fiona Apple ~
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
~By Karel Capek ~
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
~By Arnold H. Glasgow ~
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
~By Marie de France ~
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
~By Ellen DeGeneres ~
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
~By Gaius Valerius Catullus ~
Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?
~By Randy Moss ~
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
Without tact you can learn nothing.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
~By Walt Whitman ~
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.
~By Robert Evans ~
I have nothing to say to the nothing that has been said.
~By Spencer Perceval ~
My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
~By James Payn ~
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~By Albert Camus ~
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
~By Ernest Gaines ~
What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything.
~By Stephen Bennett ~
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
~By Jean Rostand ~
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
~By Phaedrus ~
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
~By Seneca ~
I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.
~By Shakira ~
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
~By Timothy R. Minnich ~
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
~By Erykah Badu ~
There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.
~By Ashley Scott ~
I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
~By Karen McCarthy ~
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
~By Dr. Seuss ~
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.
~By John Linder ~
To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
~By Karl Marx ~
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
~By Henry Ford ~
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
~By Paul Tournier ~
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
~By John Mortimer ~
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
~By Matt Groening ~
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
~By Bill Dixon ~
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
~By Josh Holloway ~
I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
~By Camille Claudel ~
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
~By Kurt Masur ~
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
~By Debby Boone ~
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
~By Jonathan Winters ~
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
~By Origen ~
In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.
~By Patsy Kelly ~
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
~By Anne Rice ~
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
~By John Ciardi ~
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
~By Albrecht Durer ~
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit.
~By Joe Grant ~
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
~By Phyllis Bottome ~
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
~By Mike Tyson ~
I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.
~By Sheena Easton ~
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
~By Don Marquis ~
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
~By Oliver Cromwell ~
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
~By Natalie Goldberg ~
There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
~By Celine Dion ~
A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.
~By Alicia Machado ~
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
~By Claudius ~
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
~By James Brown ~
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
~By J. G. Ballard ~
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
~By Alexander Mackenzie ~
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
~By Matsuo Basho ~
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
~By Eduard Hanslick ~
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