There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
When you get something for nothing, you just haven’t been billed for it yet.
That’s the only thing I don’t like – people always got something to say about my life. I don’t know nothing about their life. People just judge you when they don’t even know you.
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
Nothing’s better than a picnic.
Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That’s the greatness of this country.
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there’s nothing more attractive than someone who doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.
I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don’t want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
The world is a complicated place, and there’s a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
