#nothing

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#along #always #confrontation #create #did

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. ↗

— George Woodcock

#command #fairly #good #i #i am

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#away #case #cliche #done #exerted

Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#everything-is-possible #inspirational #magic #music #nothing-is-impossible

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. ↗

— George Ade

#into #moves #nothing #past #tense

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#ironic #itself #life #more #nothing

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#clever people #cleverness #nothing #people #recognize

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#everything #nothing #serviceable #sufficient

How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance ↗

— Robert Walser

#life #nothingness #robert-walser #silence #tired