#nothing

Without tact you can learn nothing. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#nothing #tact #without #you

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#bad #because #dreams #even #i

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#adds #contempt #due #hair #inspired

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. ↗

— Rumer Godden

#book #cat #dead #grown #kittens

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#laughs #man #more #nothing #shows

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#care #did #earth #finding #how

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness. ↗

— Alex Grey

#beings #dimensions #end #independent #infinite

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. ↗

— John Grierson

#any #anything #case #common #common good

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#nothing #obnoxious #other #people

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. ↗

— Philip Guston

#anywhere #come #desire #directly #even