#nothing

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#experience #foundation #history #informed #lasting

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#nothing #past #present

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#discoverers #ill #land #nothing #sea

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#pleasant #variety

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#disarm #gun #gun laws #laws #mercy

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#dealing #dreadful #eyes #few #few things

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#any #born #conspiracy #cultivation #feels

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#i #i think #more #nothing #painter

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#nothing #perhaps #politeness #soul #than