Quotations on Nothing 1444 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 50
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. - Alvar Aalto (Keywords: Architecture, Art, Life, Building, Nothing, Possibilities, Problems) We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. - Alvar Aalto (Keywords: Committee, Nothing, Problems) The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. - Lascelles Abercrombie (Keywords: Age, Balance, Individuality, Morals, Nothing, Welfare) The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. - Lascelles Abercrombie (Keywords: Age, Society, Ballads, Nothing, State) Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. - John Abizaid (Keywords: Boss, Defeat, Defense, Nothing, Osama bin laden, Planning, states, United) Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. - Diane Ackerman (Keywords: Childhood, Mountains, Nothing, Summer) Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. - John Acton (Keywords: Nature, Force, Nothing, World) Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. - Lord Acton (Keywords: Justice, Nothing, Publicity) Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. - Lord Acton (Keywords: Nature, Force, Nothing, World) Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. - Franklin P. Adams (Keywords: Memory, Nothing, Old) The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. - Henry B. Adams (Keywords: Trust, Purpose, Lies, Nothing, Press) A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. - Joey Adams (Keywords: Wife, Nothing, Questions) Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. - Scott Adams (Keywords: Religion, Dating, Nothing, Pursuit) Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. - Scott Adams (Keywords: Forgiveness, Nothing, Revenge) Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. - Joseph Addison (Keywords: Friend, Nothing, Talking, Thinking) Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness. - Isabelle Adjani (Keywords: Being, Nothing, Nothingness) You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. - Mortimer Adler (Keywords: Time, Mind, Nothing, Order) Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. - Theodor Adorno (Keywords: Ego, Embarrassment, Nothing, Reflection, Self, Today) There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom. - Ben Affleck (Keywords: Mom, Deep, Nothing, Parents, Trying) They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good. - Casey Affleck (Keywords: Movies, Hate, Horror, Nothing, Reason, Talking, Wrong) Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. - Andre Agassi (Keywords: Time, Work, Day, Hard work, Nothing, Training) While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support. - Clay Aiken (Keywords: Work, Beliefs, May, Nothing, Support) The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about. - Mohamed Al-Fayed (Keywords: God, Nothing, Worry) No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less. - Damon Albarn (Keywords: Time, Nothing, Right) Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience. - Sasha Alexander (Keywords: Experience, Life, People, Hollywood, Nothing, Now, World) He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali (Keywords: Life, Nothing, Will) I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game. - Richie Allen (Keywords: Love, Business, Being, Horses, Nothing, Shame) Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. - William Allingham (Keywords: Day, Learning, Nothing, Writing) Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. - B. R. Ambedkar (Keywords: Government, Society, Man, Nothing, Tyranny) I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. - Stephen Ambrose (Keywords: Education, Nothing, World) Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers? - John Amery (Keywords: Dreams, War, Leader, Alliance, Being, Destruction, Fathers, Nothing, Seamen) Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. - Henri Frederic Amiel (Keywords: Apology, Faults, Favorite, Nothing, Sin, Unconscious) He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. - Henri Frederic Amiel (Keywords: Life, Nature, Improvement, Nothing, Waste) For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. - Henri Frederic Amiel (Keywords: Thought, Action, Energy, Nothing, Will) Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. - Henri Frederic Amiel (Keywords: People, Cleverness, Nothing, Will) There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world. - Bob Anderson (Keywords: People, Nothing, World) Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need. - Gillian Anderson (Keywords: Time, Work, Friend, Being, Empowerment, Feeling, Nothing, Service) There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. - Judith Anderson (Keywords: Life, Heart, Man, Nothing, Woman) Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them. - Loni Anderson (Keywords: People, Nothing, Will) I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. - Margaret Anderson (Keywords: Inspiration, Law, Nothing, Want) But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be. - Tadao Ando (Keywords: Temple, Building, Nothing, Spirit, Wood) Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou (Keywords: Work, Nothing, Will) Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. - Maya Angelou (Keywords: Courage, Virtue, Nothing, Practice) Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time. - Francesca Annis (Keywords: Time, Nothing, Taste) Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. - Michelangelo Antonioni (Keywords: Being, Hollywood, Nothing, Talking) Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice. - Fiona Apple (Keywords: People, Choice, Nothing, Will) Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. - Thomas Aquinas (Keywords: Care, Community, Law, Nothing, Reason) Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there. - Joan of Arc (Keywords: Love, God, English, France, Hatred, Nothing, Will) I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again. - Jeffrey Archer (Keywords: Life, Day, London, Nothing, Will, Writing) It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. - Hannah Arendt (Keywords: Contention, Country, Nothing, Traditions)
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