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Nothing Quotes by John Steinbeck
- There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
- We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity…
- Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
- I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing…
- But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral…
- There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
- We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to…
- I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets…
- Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created…
- Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
- There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks…
- Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
- Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time…
- When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
- You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds…
- She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside,…
- George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches,…
- Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to
- There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure…
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- 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
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