Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, she settled for the one unanswerable accusation. "Men!"
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Nothing happens until something moves.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate, Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
