Nothing Except Quotes
101 quotes by 82 authors
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We have power over nothing except our will.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to…
— Neil Postman
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
— Johan Huizinga
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ...…
— John Berger
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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except…
— Paul G. Hoffman
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God will do nothing except you pray; and you have to be clear what you want
— Strive Masiyiwa
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We are bound by nothing except belief.
— Ernest Holmes
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Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told…
— Mary Oliver
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If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.
— John le Carre
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The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable…
— Hermann Hesse
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The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving…
— Ayn Rand
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The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of…
— Edward Gibbon
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No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing…
— Mario Testino
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The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not…
— Nahum Goldmann
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No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and…
— Parker J. Palmer
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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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