#nothing

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

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 are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#amounted #came #cut #facing #five

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

— Tadao Ando

#achieved #give #nothingness #people #ponder

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

#days #good #good old days #memory #more