Quotes with nothing

Quotes 1361 till 1380 of 1874.

  • Socrates The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Will Rogers The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Charles Dickens The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Izaak Walton The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
    Izaak Walton
    British writer (1593 - 1683)
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  • Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • George Orwell The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The plum tree in the yard's so small
    It's hardly like a tree at all.
    Yet there it is, railed round
    To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more
    Though if it could it would for sure.
    There's nothing to be done
    It gets too little sun.
    Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Sir William Blackstone The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • Eugene Kennedy The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
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  • Bradley A. Smith The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham The Reservoir plan is and engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
    Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition,
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Oscar Wilde The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Leigh Hunt The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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