Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
There's nothing in the world that I can't face.
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.
Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.
Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.
There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That's what I'll finish doing.
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
I wake up every day thinking, 'I just can't do it anymore.' There's nothing left to say, and I'm completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I'm on again.
