Nothing Except Quotes

101 quotes by 82 authors

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human… — George Bernard Shaw
A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they… — David Berg
One of these days you're going to a mansion that isn't going to cost you anything!-No upkeep, no expense, absolutely nothing except what it's already… — David Berg
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday… — Carroll Shelby
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here.… — Morgan Freeman
Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge. — Albert Pierrepoint
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person… — Jack Dee
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich. — Michel Houellebecq
When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald. — Gail Porter
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring… — George Orwell
I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored! — Greta Garbo
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's… — W. Somerset Maugham
Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril. — Shannon Hale
Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in… — Clive Barker
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. — Michael Crichton
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. — Zadie Smith
I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive. — Anne Carson

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