Nothing Quotes

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care.

They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really transformative changes that need to happen.

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

We've got a lot to gain and nothing to lose.

My favorite scene on the show [The Office] is on the booze cruise when I finally get to talk to her and tell her, and I react exactly how I would react by saying nothing.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.

2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

The best ideas in the world will accomplish nothing if you leave them on paper. Talk about them. Debate, discuss, argue. Put them into action. Then you can change the world.

You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.

In the end when you get your master back, you realize it's got absolutely nothing to do with what you thought it was going to be when you started.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.