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I came to Harbor House when I was a boy. I was looking for the Court of Owls. That time I found nothing. Not tonight.
— Scott Snyder
If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence.
— Audre Lorde
If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.
— Steve Maraboli
Clearly, having money doesn't mean you're immune to money stress. Not for nothing did Notorious B.I.G. coin "Mo Money Mo Problems.
— Alexa Von Tobel
Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
— Damian McGinty
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
— A.S. Byatt
It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
— David Hewson
For in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.
— Lee Smith
You're late, Kell", Dockson said, still not looking up from his ledgers.
"I strive for nothing if not consistency" - Kelsier — Brandon Sanderson
"I strive for nothing if not consistency" - Kelsier — Brandon Sanderson
Pay attention: Are your daily choices in alignment with the life you want for yourself? If not, nothing will change.
— Steve Maraboli
I did not care. I cared for nothing, now. I had kept up my nerve and my spirit, all that time. I had waited for my chance of escaping and got nowhere.
— Sarah Waters
Success will come just as a mere wish when cars begin to manufacture and drive themselves. Believe it or not, "nothing comes out if nothing goes in"!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!
— Rumi
If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.
— Alistair Begg
I have nothing but respect for you
and not much of that. — Groucho Marx
and not much of that. — Groucho Marx
Not for nothing are they called deadlines. By the time you reach the final line, sir, you are indeed dead.
— Avi
Nothing yet. I've been waiting."
"for what?"
she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him. — Milan Kundera
"for what?"
she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him. — Milan Kundera
Tell me about it dear; for there is nothing which interests you which will not be dear to me
— Bram Stoker
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
— Thomas Carlyle
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.
— Paul Celan
Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.
— Hiromu Arakawa
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
— Chinua Achebe
If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction.
— Sri Chinmoy
I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.
— Billy Graham
If I do not feel far more for the grieved Saviour than for my worried self when troublesome things occur, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
— Amy Carmichael
There's nothing left here. Not one thing left for you.
— Haruki Murakami
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
— John Green
Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest.
— Jetta Carleton
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something
a very big something
because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for. — Barbara Brown Taylor
a very big something
because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for. — Barbara Brown Taylor
He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself
— Marsilio Ficino
You are a story. do not become a word. one word. because you want to be loved. love does not ask you to be nothing for something.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs.
— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
— Marcus Valerius Martial
I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
— Mark Batterson
Think not to make me afraid, for I fear nothing in the universe but that which I love the best.
I spake of the eyes of the Lord Jesus.
Then — George MacDonald
I spake of the eyes of the Lord Jesus.
Then — George MacDonald
There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
— Orison Swett Marden
Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!
— Amitabh Bachchan
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
— E.W. Howe
Therefore, men get nothing from the law but condemnation, for in the law God demands his due, but does not confer the power to pay it properly. The
— John Calvin
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.
— Maya Angelou
It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.
— Martin Schulz
Hoop nodded. "Everything's good."
"For now," Ripley said. "Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever. — Tim Lebbon
"For now," Ripley said. "Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever. — Tim Lebbon
Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in life.
— Haruki Murakami
Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else.
— Raymond Charles Barker
He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must be looked for is the unforeseen.
— Victor Hugo
I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
— Jack Vance
Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.
— John Key
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
— Cormac McCarthy
A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
— Patricia Briggs
For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. — Wallace Stevens
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. — Wallace Stevens
Sometimes you don't lose hope, not because you are hopeful , but there is nothing else to hope for.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.
— Peter David
Sometimes things happen for a reason, though they are not obvious at that moment, and there is nothing you can do to control them.
— Preeti Shenoy
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
— Ingrid Newkirk
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."
(Jane Austen) — Jane Austen
(Jane Austen) — Jane Austen
Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.
— Alton Brown
Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
— Marcus Aurelius
We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle ... nor its price.
— Magica Quartet
But we could not, for if one attempted to look into the future one would see nothing; it was like peeping into a person's earhole.
— Chigozie Obioma
Someone telling you about the future did not prepare you for it. Nothing prepared you for it.
— Tracy Guzeman
This is not suitable for me"- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say 'will not suit' is an offense.
— Dada Bhagwan
So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man.
— Thomas Hardy
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.
— Brigitte Bardot
Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing...
— Charles Dickens
When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.
— Mickey Mantle
Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News.
— Billy Graham
There was a time when time did not yet exist. ... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
— Emil Cioran
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. p.
— Charles Dickens
That's the bravest thing, I think: not to be brave for yourself but for a buddy when it gets you nothing and costs you everything.
— Stephen Hunter
It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.
— Alyssa Sutherland
For God has not only created us from nothing, but also granted us by the grace of the Word to live a life according to God.
— Athanasius Of Alexandria
Men will not save women for nothing, but themselves. Women have to save themselves.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil
and he will not stay loyal to him
for he is also destined to become a master. — Friedrich Nietzsche
and he will not stay loyal to him
for he is also destined to become a master. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
— Charles Dickens
Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
— John Malkovich
Pride will leave you with nothing more than what you began with, expectations not exceeding more than the failures you never accounted for.
— Don Swann II
The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.
— Plutarch
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
— M.J. Rose
Nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.
— Jeffrey Donovan
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
— Alice Walker
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
— Douglas Coupland
Do not simply know God according to what He does, but know Him according to what He is. Whether or not God does something for us means nothing.
— Witness Lee