#nowhere

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#bit #cannot #climb #end #followed

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts. ↗

— Lazaro Hernandez

#ideas #nowhere #people #something #somewhere

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#conduct #even #good #guarantee #i

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#his #man #more #nowhere #own

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#art #art form #form #interesting #itself

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#axis #brushed #clings #entirely #ever

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#end #get #getting #itself #nowhere

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. ↗

— Maya Lin

#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

We'd be nowhere without our looks. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#nowhere #our #without