Quotes with nothing

Quotes 261 till 280 of 1874.

  • François Fénelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Ogden Nash Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • A. W. Tozer Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • C. S. Lewis Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Charles Edward Montague Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
    Charles Edward Montague
    English journalist and writer (1867 - 1928)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Lou Holtz Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • William Hazlitt Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Camille Pissarro Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Cynicism is knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Dryden Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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