Nothing Quotes

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.