N Quotes
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“Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.”
“Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.”
Source: Works
“Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.”
Source: Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait
“Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.”
“Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.”
Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism
“Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.”
“Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all have such experience if we will but attend to the divine influences in our own hearts, is the cardinal doctrine of Quakerism.”
Source: Quaker Strongholds
“Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.”
Source: Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage
“Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.”
“Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present in the moment.”
“Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.”
“Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth century; a theology which regarded Christianity as an admirable auxiliary to the police force, and a principle of decorum and of cohesion in society, but which carefully banished from it all enthusiasm, veiled or attenuated all its mysteries, and virtually reduced it to an authoritative system of moral philosophy.”
“Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any
conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into
weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the
ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.”
“Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.”
Source: The Cyberiad
“Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.”
Source: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet
“Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.”
“Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.”
“Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.”
“Nothing, nothing, nothing is better than sex, it is what God created us to do.”
“Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.”
“Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.”
“Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.”
Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
“Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.”
Source: The spectator
“Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.”
“Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.”
“Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.”
“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
“Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.”
Source: Letters to Felice
“Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”
“Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.”
“Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.”
“Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.”
“Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.”
“Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.”
Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.”
“Nothing?Micheal!You're 'playing'!.IN PUBLIC? 'That's new?' Claire whisperd to shhane 'He hasn't played anywhere but our living room since-Teeth-in-neck mime 'You know Oliver' 'Oh.' micheal's face was turning pink.'just put it back,OK?It's no big deal! Eve kissed him.”
“Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.”
“Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.”
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Nothingness haunts Being.”
Source: Essays in Existentialism
“Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.”
“Nothingness is the “air” of the Ultimate Being and the air of countless beings dispersed in the new entity we call the Universe.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Nothingness is the basis of everything.”
“Nothingness is the beginning of everything. Fret not when thou hath nought; be merry for thou hath but an empty scroll whereon to write thy own reality.”