Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
I got love for Damon Dash as I did before. I don't know if we can be around each other in that way because times have changed. He may be a totally different person. I know I'm a different person. But nothing can erase that era, those times, those memories, those fights to get 'Roc-A-fella' where it was.
Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
