People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.
The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress. . . . Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud. . . . Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.
Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.
Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.
To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.
For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.
there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.
If you want to be happy in your life with love you have to realize nothing ever goes perfectly. Life fluctuates, life is a frequency, it's an undetermined thing, it moves and you have to be able to accommodate that.
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.
I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.
He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.