Quotes with nothing

Quotes 1701 till 1720 of 1874.

  • Stephen Vizinczey We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • George Orwell We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alexander Mackenzie We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Don Marquis We shall problably have nothing to say, but we intend to say it at great length.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Fay Weldon We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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  • Karl Marx We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bono We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • A. Philip Randolph We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less... This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • John Irving We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 330
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Becky Stark Well then you thought that the end was in sight
    And then you thought there was nothing to fight
    But you had opened your heart with your mind
    Oooh here comes one.
    Imagine Our Love Here Comes One
    Becky Stark
    American artist,  singer and entertainer
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Edgar Degas What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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  • Oscar Wilde What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lord George Byron What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bernard Bailyn What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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