Nothing Except Quotes

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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have,… — Ambrose Bierce
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. — Albert Camus
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Duke of Wellington
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with… — Fran Lebowitz
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity… — Emile M. Cioran
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan… — Colin Powell
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. — Andre Agassi
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out… — Albert Pierrepoint
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need… — Isaac Asimov
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and… — Adolf Hitler
The dead have nothing except the memory they've left. — Ferenc Molnar
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is… — Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. — Socrates
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost… — Stephen Harper
Nothing ever got my pulse racing (in a good way) like hockey. Well, nothing except Beyonce, but that wasn't until I was twelve or so.… — Justin Bieber
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice. — Simon Mawer
Most everything means nothing, except some things that mean everything. — Patty Griffin

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