#nothing

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ↗

— Dave Barry

#adolescent #embarrassing #more #nothing #parent

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. ↗

— Fred Allen

#decide #done #gathering #nothing #people

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. ↗

— Fred Allen

#decide #done #group #individually #men

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#credit #crimes #even #everything #forgive

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#brooke #built #down #i #lay

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? ↗

— Woody Allen

#exists #nothing #somebody #what if

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#confusion #equates #idea #new #nothing

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#dismay #finding #finds #flower #heart

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#achieved #give #nothingness #people #ponder