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Quotes About Nothing

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
~ Thomas Paine
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
~ Bob Dylan
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
~ Oscar Wilde
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.
~ Bernie Mac
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
~ Jane Austen
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
~ John Donne
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
~ Adam Clarke
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.
~ D. H. Lawrence
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
~ Edward Young
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
~ Hugo Chavez
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.
~ Josiah Stamp
Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren't allowed to understand anything about it.
~ Robert Walser, The Walk
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
~ Max Brooks
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.
~ James Franco
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~ Hellen Keller
Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.
~ Max Barry, Lexicon
In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.
~ A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly
Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.
~ Shawn Lukas
It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.
~ Buck Brannaman
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.
~ Willy Brandt