Quotes about Nothing

She went through some motions of housekeeping. Why was there nothing to sleep in but beds that had to be remade, nothing to eat from but dishes that had to be washed?

When we fail to take action, we forfeit the future. And just as inaction is an action, indecision is a decision. As Edmund Burke famously said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

She catches hold, then of this word "nothing," and stabs at it with a multitude of words and examples, and by means of a suitable interpretation, reduces it to this, that "nothing" can mean the same as "only a little thing" or "an imperfect thing;" she expounds in other words what the Sophists have hitherto taught regarding this passage: "Apart from me you can do nothing," that is to say "nothing perfectly.

inward holiness in the spirit before God. And this is the reason specially why he said this, in order to show that there is nothing holy but that holiness which God produces within us.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.