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Nothing Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- There is nothing new in art except talent.
- No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
- He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
- Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
- To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must…
- You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.
- The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal…
- Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She…
- It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The…
- If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away…
- If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
- Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired…
- I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist…
- Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
- What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle…
- If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to…
- The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
- This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has…
- A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems…
- There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
- In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
- ..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.
- Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very…
- It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong