Naught Quotes

135 quotes by 112 authors

When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too… — Khalil Gibran
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness. — Aleister Crowley
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong… — Emma Goldman
Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can… — Cormac McCarthy
There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave.… — John Barth
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there,… — Terry Pratchett
For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught. — Frank Sinatra
There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. — William Shakespeare
Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others. — Laini Taylor
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,… — Baroness Orczy
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations,… — Helen Keller
I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.â€ (p. 57). — Shannon Hale
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will. — Susanna Kearsley
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught… — H. Rider Haggard
So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if… — H. Rider Haggard
I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man… — Karen Hawkins
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto… — E E Cummings
All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images… — George Harrison

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