Character Quote by Binnie Kirshenbaum

“Doing nothing at all is often the very wisest thing ... as the world is a ball and is turning and everything is in…

— Niall Williams

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot…

— James Anthony Froude

“Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that…

— Coetze, J.M

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

— Nicole Krauss

“To do nothing is to do something.”

— Johnathan Safran Foer

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

— Anonymous

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

— Ben Harper

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate…

— O. Henry

“The difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.”

— Chrissy Anderson

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

— Tim Gunn