Quotes with nothing

Quotes 561 till 580 of 1874.

  • Richard Martin Stern If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
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  • Umberto Eco If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Confucius If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Pierre Gallois If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
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  • Billie Holiday If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.
    Lady Sings the Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Auberon Herbert If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • William Morris If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Andy Warhol If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Napoleon If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Bob Dole If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Plato In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Antonio Porchia In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Samuel Johnson In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Matthew Prior In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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