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Quotes About Nothing

But nothing was often everything in forensics. Nothing could often be the answer to the whole bloody thing.
~ Lisa Jewell
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
~ Joyce Cary
That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
~ Tony Snow
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
~ Herbert A. Simon
existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing—not even a memory.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Emptiness in such a person is not nothing, is not small. It is enormous.
~ Jerry Spinelli
So,' I said, 'when does the enchantment start?' 'It started when the earth was born.'...'It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.' 'So what do we do?' She smiled. 'That's the secret.'...'We do nothing. Or as close to nothing as we can.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
~ John Oliver
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
~ Walter Scott
If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.
~ Roger Ebert
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
~ William Hazlitt
Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing?
~ Mick Hucknall
Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.
~ Unknown
I have never understood the profound fear that forces us to trample every mystery in the wild until there is nothing left but that which is man-made, nothing to make our heart pump out of its chest. I
~ Val Kilmer
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
~ James Schuyler
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
~ John Clare
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
~ John Searle
I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.
~ J. L. Mackie
The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.
~ Unknown
Without thought he repeated some words which a boy had once chalked on the blackboard between lessons: 'A lump of coal is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore a lump of coal is better than God'. And then he traced his own name with his finger on the cracked and broken floor.
~ Peter Ackroyd
What infuriated many observers was that everything had changed and nothing had changed. That in fact seems to be the nature of English life. It was a revolution which had not changed the nature of governance.
~ Peter Ackroyd
It was nothing more than what it was.
~ Philip Pullman
As G. K. Chesterton is credited with saying, "The opposite of a belief in God is not a belief in nothing; it is a belief in anything.
~ David Jeremiah