Nothing Quotes

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.