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The Great Gatsby
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Nothing Quotes

A person’s self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

– Halle Berry

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

– Heinrich Schliemann

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

– Henry Ford

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

– Gertrude Himmelfarb

We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes – which is, for 50 percent of the public, nothing; for another 25 percent, only a 10 percent increase; and for the remaining 25 percent, a 34 percent increase.

– Gray Davis

I made nothing happen very slowly.

– Gary McCord

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

– Gustave Flaubert

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

– Helen Hunt Jackson

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

– Gunter Grass

When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re 60, nothing seems ancient.

– Helen Mirren

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

– Helen Gahagan

You become a writer because you need to become a writer – nothing else.

– Grace Paley

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

– Henry Ward Beecher

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

– Havelock Ellis

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

– Howard Hodgkin

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

– H. P. Lovecraft

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

– Hector Hugh Munro

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

– Harold Wilson

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

– Geoffrey Beene

I know I’m only one human being and I’m only making one tiny contribution and it’s nothing more than that.

– Halle Berry

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

– Hillary Clinton

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

There’s nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that’s a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

– Hari Kunzru

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

It’s not called the Theatre of Dreams for nothing.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

– Harry Shearer

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

– Gerry Spence

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

– Hilaire Belloc

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

– George Chapman

Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.

– Howard Jacobson

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