Nothing Quotes

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.