Quotes 421 till 440 of 1874.
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
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I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
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I am so changeable, being every thing by turns and nothing long,— I am such a strange mélange of good and evil.
The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1833) -
I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.
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I can think of nothing but this engine.
Letter to Matthew Boulton 29 april 1765.
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