Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.
There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. - Daniel Webster,
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.
Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
