Nothing Quotes - page 11

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner. (John Donne)
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? View quote
Xi Jinping
One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say. View quote
André Malraux
Nothing like a little judicious levity. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. View quote
Theodor Adorno
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. View quote
Cicero
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. (Karel Čapek)
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. View quote
Robert Aumann
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. View quote
Bruce Lee
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. View quote
Françoise Sagan
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. View quote
Steve Martin
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. View quote
Edmund Burke
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. View quote
Edmund Burke
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. View quote
Gore Vidal
And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope. (Robert Frost)
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. View quote
Robert Frost
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. View quote
Henry James
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. View quote
O. Henry
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. View quote
Teresa of Ávila