Almost Nothing Quotes
124 quotes by 114 authors
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A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
— David Sheff
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I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden…
— Guy de Maupassant
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The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with…
— David Foster Wallace
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We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on…
— Joshua Ferris
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A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own…
— Mary Oliver
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I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But…
— Jon Krakauer
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My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But…
— Haruki Murakami
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Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something…
— Paul Auster
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Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you…
— Anthony Kiedis
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Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
— David Foster Wallace
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When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their…
— Mary Pipher
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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll…
— Ilona Andrews
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You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.
— Jonathan Maberry
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Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those…
— Richard Dawkins
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Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
— James D. Watson
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To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to…
— Bill Bryson
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Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing…
— Bruce Feiler
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Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard…
— Richard Dawkins
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