#nothing

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#else #english #gentleman #great #great service

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong. ↗

— Michael Frayn

#being #catastrophically #create #creating #good

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. ↗

— Scotty Bowman

#sure #sure thing #thing #uncertain

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#just #nobody #nothing #play #you

I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#because #being #certainly #children #come

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#anything #astronomers #closest #discovered #empty

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#game #had #invented #little #most

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home. ↗

— Rosalynn Carter

#good #important #more #nothing #safe

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#down #energy #energy bill #foreign #foreign oil

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#concealed #detain #fastened #filled #first