Nothing Quotes

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.