Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
Nothing stayed still. A man changed his lodging, his place of work, his mistress; between man and wife love could die, a man's art or skill grew or languished or merely changed, and all beyond his control
A bigger problem was to separate himself from his body - the hand worn to nothing, the lock of hair that fell into his eye, even the brain that scrurried with thoughts and words and images. It took long hours to die
It's the wish, the desire, that matters, and the truth means nothing
Why could he do nothing for his brother, whom he loved, yet be an agent of divine mercy for a total stranger?
There's nothing wrong with dying spectacularly. Christ did it.
It is better that he die and move on to eternal life. You lose him, you think. You have lost nothing. A bodily presence, a voice, the gestures of friendship.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
Nothing increases your golf score like witnesses.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
The physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's the psychic distance.
Learn to pause--or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must neve attempt to gather flowers.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Only cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
