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Quotes about Nothing


Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Greer

Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must neve attempt to gather flowers.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

George Christopher Lichtenberg

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

Abraham Maslow

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Ralph Sockman

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

If you go into a situation with nothing planned, sometimes wonderful stuff happens.

Jerry Garcia

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk to Freedom]

The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.

Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Greer

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus Curtis

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Samuel Butler

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navratilova

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