Quotes with nothing

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 1874.

  • Plutarch The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Bryce Harper The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Kofi Annan The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Gore Vidal The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • George Eliot The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Basil Hume The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Robert Collier The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Mother Teresa The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Sydney Smith The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Samuel Johnson The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Butler The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Blaise Pascal The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
    Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
    French naturalist and mathematician
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  • Horace The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Paracelsus The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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