#nothing

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#among #away #europe #happened #ii

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#everything #i #i believe #i believe in #nothing

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. ↗

— Judd Rose

#abuse of power #bosses #comes #crazy #new

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#often #powerful #strange #truth

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#audience #deaf #music #nothing #requires

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ↗

— William John Wills

#characteristics #consider #found #generally #higher

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#funny #inappropriate #nothing #then #write

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everything #heavy #never #nothing #tired

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ↗

— William Morris

#believe #house #know #nothing #useful