Nothing Quotes
I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
Agnes VardaAgnes Varda There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
Alan BennettAlan Bennett There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another.
Paul the ApostlePaul the Apostle Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
DogenDogen Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
Agnes VardaAgnes Varda