Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.
Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightfulâjust as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
Science is nothing but perception.
You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.
In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low, Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent, With all for convenience, but nothing for show: Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant, By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee; And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant. Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]
Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.
They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.
