We’ve collected the best Nothing Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Leon Trotsky, Gerard Depardieu, Abraham Lincoln, Marcus Aurelius, James Baldwin. Use them as an inspiration.
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Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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Nothing can ever be wrong about music.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.
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Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
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It’s interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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I’m just going to go live life. I’m going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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When young people are powerful, our Party and People’s Army are powerful, and there is nothing for us to be afraid of.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
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Fame is really strange. One day you’re not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply – yet everyone looks at you differently.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
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There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
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I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
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A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
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Jogging is my idea of nothing to do.
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You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.
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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
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Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
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I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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Nobody knows what really a beautiful person is, so don’t worry. If you have pimples today, it’s nothing. If you have a bad hair day, it’s nothing. Feel beautiful. Feel sexy, and it will shine. It will show outside.
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There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
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A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
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Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!
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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just gonna end up lonely.
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Cyclists live with pain, if you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
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I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
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Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.
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My life has been nothing short of a fairy tale.
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Growing up, I knew I was different. But I didn’t know what it meant to be Aboriginal. I just knew that I had a really big, extended family. I was taught nothing about who we were or where we came from.
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Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
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Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.
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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
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I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises when we try to counter this insecurity by cultivating this illusion of control, and we start taking ourselves and everything we know too seriously.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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I’ve got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who’ve had it. The point about good surgery is you can’t see it. The important thing is not to go crazy – and not to go to a bad surgeon.
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
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I don’t need money, and when I do a favor, I expect nothing back.
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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
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Some people say I’ve got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I’d sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in ‘The Fifth Element.’ And I’m nothing like that blue alien. I’ve got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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There’s nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
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With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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I’ll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.
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To know nothing is the happiest life.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
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There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
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In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible… When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I’ve done it.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
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Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
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In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
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If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there’s nothing more attractive than someone who doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
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I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.
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In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.
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Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
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There’s nothing like live performance.
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Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Nothing is black or white, nothing’s ‘us or them.’ But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There’s incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
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There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white.
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There’s nothing better than working up a good sweat.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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Don’t disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing’s wrong.
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man‘s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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I have no limits. There is no ‘No’ in my dictionary; nothing is impossible for me.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
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Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering.
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Talent without working hard is nothing.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
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Nothing’s going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Something is better than nothing. Doin’ anything for a man, there’s investments involved, there’s time and production. It’s better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
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If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one’s mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
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Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.
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Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.
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If you’re raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
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I wouldn’t limit myself to nothing. I feel like I am limitless.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
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Out of the water, I am nothing.
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If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you’re available.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
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Nothing recedes like success.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
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Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there’s nothing. So when it’s damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.
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I ain’t never had nothing good in life.
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In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‘Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.’
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.
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If you work hard, nothing is impossible.
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Sometimes I like to go out; sometimes I like to chill and do nothing.
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People say money ain’t nothing; money is basically everything.
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That’s the only thing I don’t like – people always got something to say about my life. I don’t know nothing about their life. People just judge you when they don’t even know you.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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Without football, my life is worth nothing.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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The world is a complicated place, and there’s a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
481
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
482
483
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
484
485
486
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
487
488
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
489
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
490
491
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
492
Nothing will work unless you do.
493
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
494
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
495
496
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
497
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
498
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
499
Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
500
If you want to do something, go for it -you’ve got nothing to lose.
501
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
502
I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
503
504
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
505
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
506
507
508
509
510
511
512
Without promotion, something terrible happens… nothing!
513
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
514
Nothing can be done except little by little.
515
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
516
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
517
518
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
519
520
521
In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
522
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
523
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
524
525
I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‘Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.’
526
I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.
527
Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
528
War settles nothing.
529
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
530
531
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
532
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
533
534
535
There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
536
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
537
538
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
539
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
540
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
541
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
542
543
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
544
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
545
Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
546
A witty saying proves nothing.
547
548
549
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
550
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.
551
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
552
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
553
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
554
There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.
555
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
556
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
557
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
558
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
559
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
560
561
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
562
563
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
564
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
565
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
566
567
Do nothing which is of no use.
568
569
570
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
571
572
I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
573
574
575
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
576
577
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
578
579
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
580
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
581
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
582
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
583
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
584
Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
585
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
