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Quotations on Nothing 1444 Quotes Found 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. 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. A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. 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. Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness. 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. Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. 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. 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. 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. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but 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. 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. 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. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. 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. Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. 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. I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. 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? 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. He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this 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. There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them. 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. 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. Nothing will work unless you do. 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. 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. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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