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Nothing Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
- You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.
- There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a…
- Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.
- How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets…
- Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
- Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
- The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we…
- Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there…
- The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or…
- A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than…
- A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do…
- The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's…
- The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there…
- Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
- There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the…
- Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds…
- Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his…
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