Nothing Quotes - page 23

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. (James Thurber)
Gallantry to women the sure road to their favor is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. View quote
Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. View quote
Umberto Eco
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. View quote
Umberto Eco
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people. View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows. View quote
Russell Crowe
It is always the teacher who must learn the most ... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally. View quote
George Eliot
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. View quote
George Eliot
. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es. View quote
George Eliot
Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. View quote
Humphry Davy
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. View quote
Ayn Rand
Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. View quote
Edward Snowden
Make voyages Attempt them ... there's nothing else. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. View quote
Camille Pissarro
There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain. (James Frey)
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. View quote
Thomas Malthus
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner