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And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.


John Banville

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FLOYD SKLOOT He felt nothing for them now, nothing but the merciless zero of indifference, not even the regret of...
AYN RAND There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
JUAN MONTALVO There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE It was just a normal day. Nothing out of the ordinary happened.
MICHELLE MORGAN But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ...
CATHERINE LACEY You can always count on God to do nothing.
MARTY RUBIN Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothi...
OSAMU DAZAI I've done nothing wrong, nothing that has to do with any sort of on the lines of betting. That's jus...
WAYNE GRETZKY Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of somet...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.
MARTY RUBIN A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ...
SOTONYE ANGA As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...
SIGMUND FREUD What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
VICTOR HUGO Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, but when I ...
JOHN BANVILLE Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
VOLTAIRE Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
ARNOLD BENNETT I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
JEAN RACINE I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me
TERENCE Had something happened, it would have been the business side of basketball. Now that nothing happene...
BRENT BARRY Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great
RALPH WALDO EMERSON This is really unusual. We've had a lot of experience with rubberized asphalt and nothing like this ...
BOB HAUS Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
KRIS KRISTOFFERSEN Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Edna Lewis had the hands and soul of a great artist, and like all great artists, she had something o...
ALICE WATERS Nothing happened as far as we can tell.
BRENDA O'CONNOR Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothi...
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ It's a lot of pressure right now, guys, come on. Nothing happened. I just skated today perfect and d...
EVGENI PLUSHENKO Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was fo...
RAYMOND CARVER We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America ...
JOE BIDEN When you see it after the fact that they actually had a machine-gun, and knowing what's happened at ...
GEORGE SCOTT That was great that year, ... That was the most fun I've ever had. We had a great crew and it was a ...
BRIAN COREY We just got out and carried on with our lives like nothing happened.
BILL MCKINNEY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES A lot of great ball players played down there, and it was just nothing but a field.
ED BRANDLE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.
THOMAS HARRIS But nothing's happened yet -- nothing that I know of.
KAREN CLARK If I had my way, I'd wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else.
JADA PINKETT SMITH People just can't go on with an awards show like nothing happened.
CONAN O'BRIEN What happened to these young men, it had nothing to do with religion. It was a random thing. They ju...
JAMES RUSSELL There was a chase. The chase came to an end. No one had fallen over. Nothing had happened that would...
STEVEN AMSTER Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been stand...
SPIKE MILLIGAN What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON The unthinkable happened and nothing can undo it.
MARTIN JAMTLID The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every da...
MICHAEL ENDE If I had nothing else to eat, they'd be great. Anything is better than nothing.
DEREK BILLINGSLEY For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS To an Ohio boy, it represented world-weary Gallic shrugs and Gauloises cigarettes, existentialist th...
MICHAEL DIRDA "Nothing beats the effectiveness of a great analogy”
VINCE L DESALVO I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That ...
JOHN IRVING In terms of the building, nothing like this has ever happened before.
GUY LEBLANC SU has done nothing. All of the stuff that came out of the commission, the university just smoothed ...
DWAYNE WALKER SU has done nothing, ... All of the stuff that came out of the commission, the university just smoot...
DWAYNE WALKER We all expected more, to go farther than this. It's happened. There's nothing we can do about it.
AARON GAGNON Nothing happened. The coach put me out there for the last 20 seconds, but I didn't even try. I just ...
JAROMIR JAGR Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We're a great team, not just one or two players. ... If one goes down, another steps up. We bounce r...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH It's another person. He had nothing to do with that incident.
MAJ. GREG BAKER He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playin...
LENNY SIMPSON I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all...
PETER DAVID Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity
EDMUND BURKE It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where ...
CLIFFORD D. SIMAK He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
THOMAS FULLER Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
MANIKA My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened th...
HANYA YANAGIHARA The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.
FRANCOISE GILOT People forget that (Facenda) was a great news man, ... They just think of him as the voice of NFL Fi...
JACK WHITAKER I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And ano...
RITA DOVE The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying i...
SEAN O'CASEY In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, co...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T.S. ELIOT Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it...
ECKHART TOLLE Nothing we wanted to happen happened. They were a very good team. I think we were just overpowered a...
CHRIS MURIN No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

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JOHN BOLTON Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
JOHN ACTON My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
JOHN MCENROE Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
JOHN ASHCROFT If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g...
JOHN LYDON It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec...
JOHN RAMPTON Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
JOHN WOODEN I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU