Quotes About Nothing

Yet, advice on what we can do is usually futile—for we will do nothing except applaud the speaker, accept those ideas of his we already agree with, and reject those ideas that run counter to our prejudices.

It was such a pathetic little story, a snip of nothing, the kind teenage girls fight over and forget every day. It had led us to this week and this room.

the Indian sage Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj so beautifully teaches: "Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between these two my life flows.

It's an outrageous injustice that he was the one to die. He'd nothing to do with this affair." "It's always that way, sir. Come on, let's tend to that hand of yours.

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

Me personally as a man is nothing without the inspiration of JAH

When you are in readiness, you are in wakefulness. A smile can take you there. A simple smile. Just stop everything for one moment, and smile. At nothing. Just because it feels good. Just because your heart knows a secret. And because your soul knows what the secret is. Smile at that. Smile a lot. It will cure whatever ails you.

What about: I got Jack and shit and Jack left town.

What if the universe was always there, in a state or condition we have yet to identify - a multiverse, for instance, that continually births universes? Or what if the universe just popped into existence from nothing? Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a super-intelligent alien species?

But had I not cut the cord? and now was I seeing what happens when there is no gravity. There is indeed nothing, nothing; you are just falling. My father had said once (or was it you?) that the only emotions worth having are ecstasy and despair. I thought - Well yes, but there is also a terror at this nothing.

Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing..

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

I remember a rainy, depressing afternoon when she remarked 'What a pity we can't make love, there's nothing else to do,' and he agreed that it was and there wasn't.

Nothing is more dangerous than an enemy with nothing to loose.

Suddenly I was afraid. Afraid of nothing, that most awful of fears.