#nothing

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#attempt #fail #great #i #nothing

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#nothing #only #outlook #prove #sufficiently

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#activities #back #believe #blues #comes

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#know #may #nothing #ours #purpose

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#been #born #business #dying #found

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#death #nothingness #death

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bigotry #despotism #equality #hypocrisy #know-nothings

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#been #beings #believe #believing #century

Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better! ↗

— Megan Mullally

#better #nothing #talking #themselves

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#details #did #emptiness #eye #followed