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But we mustn't go too far backin anybody's life Because if we dothen nobody is to blame for anything, and nothing matters, and everything is allowed.
Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now.
Nothing in excess.
To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Nothing has raised more questioning among my critics thanthese wordsnoble, thegrand style Ithink it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
There is nothing to it.You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.
Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!
Tout est faux, il n'y a personneil n'y a rien. Everything is false. There is no onethere is nothing.
I looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. They seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to say and those who had nothing.
Nay: but Iwill surely buy it oftheeat a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which dost cost me nothing.
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own life, and be talked on.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Asunknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Aut Caesar, aut nihil. Either Caesar or nothing.
I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry.
Entre le pe nis et les mathe matiquesil n'existe rien. Rien! Between the penis and mathematicsthere's nothing. Nothing!
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
It is only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
Now we know nothing, nothing is richer now Because of all he was.O friend we have loved Must it be thus with you?and if it must be How can men bear laboriously to live?
'For I don't,'says Jo,'I don't know nothink.'
To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
Yes, he thought, between grief and nothing I will take grief.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. See Defoe 258:25.
Nobody can't do nothing never at all for Irelandyou can't help people against their will; that's what it comes tolet it go, let it go.
The artist should not only paint what hesees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also omit to paint that which he sees before him.
From all I can learn, he'sgot no business, no income, and no connection worth speaking of; but then, I know nothingnobody tells me anything.
The alcohol made the present enough, it held her in its golden hand, where past and future were comprehended, where nothing mattered, nothing was lost, where everything could be known and forgiven, where she herself could be whole at last.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
It really means nothing in this country whatsoeverbut then being a writer here means nothing either.
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing absolutely nothinghalf somuchworthdoing assimply messing about in boats.
Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would no longer be the daily possibility of love dying.
The most basic law of economicsthat one cannot get something for nothing.
There isnothing good tobe had inthe country, or ifthere is, they will not let you have it.
All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
To say nothing is out here isincorrect; tosay the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stoneand earth is closer to the truth.
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
All modernAmericanliterature comesfromonebook by MarkTwain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing good since.
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: The seas roll over but the rocks remain.
I have long held the notion that if a vet can't catch his patient there's nothing much to worry about.
Nothing really wrong with himonlyanno domini, but that's the most fatal complaint of all, in the end.
I don't know what people have got against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.
In this country, my Lordsthe individual subjecthas nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young.
Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.
Factsareventriloquist'sdummies. Sittingonawiseman's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as bya good tavern or inn.
You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet.
Pray inwardly, even though you do not enjoy it. It does good though you feel nothing, even though you think you are doing nothing.
I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.
Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
Nil posse creari De nilo. Nothing can be created from nothing.
L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace.
Le c½ur a ses raisons, que la raison ne conna|"t point. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Qu'est-ce que l'homme dans la nature? Un ne ant a' l'e gard de l'infini, un tout a' l'e gard du ne ant, un milieu entre rien et tout. What is man in nature? Nothing in comparison to the infinite, all in comparison to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highestquality toyourmomentsasthey pass,and simply for those moments'sake.
Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.
Na o sou nada. Nunca serei nada. Na o posso querer ser nada. ' A parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo. I am not nothing. I will never be nothing. I cannot ever want to be nothing. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.
I was called by my sovereign and by the voice of the peopletoassist the State when othershad abdicated the service of it.That being so, no one can be surprisedthat I will go on no longer, since my advice is not taken. Being responsible, I will directand will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.
Nothink for nothink 'ere, and precious little for sixpence.
No, I never heard nothing about it, but when they name any disease after two guys, it's got to be terrible!
I've still so much music in my head.I have said nothing. I have so much more to say.
Quand une femme me para|"t belle, je n'ai rien a' en dire. Je la vois sourire, tout simplement. Les intellectuels de montent le visage, pour l'expliquer par les morceaux, mais ils ne voient plus le sourire. When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, whichforgivesitselfeverything, isforgiven nothing.
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things, bya law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?
Who will dare deny that theThird Estate contains within itself all that is needed to constitute a nation? What would theThird Estate be without theprivileged classes? It would be a whole in itself, and a prosperous one. Nothing can be done without it, and everything would be done far better without the others.
I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter'.
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Nihil nos conari, velle, appetere, neque cupere, quia id bonum esse judicamus; sed contra, nos propterea aliquid bonum esse judicare, quia id conamur, volumus, appetimus, atque cupimus. We endeavour, wish, desire, or long for nothing because we deem it good; but on the other hand, we deem a thing good because we endeavour, wish for, desire, or long for it.
Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Nil est dictu facilius. Nothing is easier to say.
How to Live Well on Nothing aYear.
For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, there I am. There's nothing behind it!
The Labour Party is a moral crusade, or it is nothing.
For all the dinners are cooked; the plates and cups washed; the children sent to school and gone out into the world.Nothing remains of it all. All has vanished. No biography or history has a word to say about it.
After yourdeathpeoplewill write of yourloveaffairs, but I shall say nothing, because I will remember how proud you were.
There's nothing but our own red blood Can make a right RoseTree.
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