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Quotes About Nothing

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps
~ George Harrison
There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
~ Nathaniel Rateliff
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
~ Walt Whitman
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
~ Arthur Levitt
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.
~ Saint Augustine
We are therefore about to establish a school of the Lord's service in which we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome.
~ Saint Benedict
There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.
~ Sam James Ervin, Jr.
I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
What do you want to change in the world?" she continued her recitation, looking away. "What do you want to preserve? What is the thing you're searching for? What are you running away from?" "Nothing," he said. "And nothing. And nothing. And…nothing, at least that I know.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
~ Francis Cornford
If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.
~ Maya Rudolph
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.
~ Richard O'Brien
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
~ Fay Weldon
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.
~ Sean M. Carroll
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
~ Rumi
The universe provides us with a clean slate in every moment; God's creation holds nothing against us.
~ Marianne Williamson
You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill you needed was the ability to think about absolutely nothing whatsoever.
~ Mark Haddon
Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic?
~ Mark Helprin
A man is nothing now unless he has within him a full appreciation of the new era, an era in which it would seem that neither honesty nor truth is very desirable, but in which success is the only touchstone of merit.
~ Anthony Trollope
Oh, wretched ephemeral race … why do you compel me to tell you what it would be most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is—to die soon.
~ Aristotle
The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
They say words more empty than the wind, she said. 'Tis nothing, love. Nothing, and less than nothing. The wind is nothing yet powerful, he said.
~ Sherryl Jordan
This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.
~ Shiro Amano