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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.


George Santayana

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THEODOR ADORNO The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but...
GEOFFREY RUSH Much Ado About Nothing,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE much ado about nothing.
LAWRENCE DI RITA If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then know...
JOSEF PIEPER There is nothing much really to say about the man's death,
STEVE BIKO Invalidation is the silent killer of relationships and is the reason most fights end up being about ...
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
KENNETH GRAHAME There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
KENNETH GRAHAM Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing abo...
EDGAR R. FIEDLER I think the market won't react positively to it, but I think it is much ado about nothing.
TIM GHRISKEY God is basically an emotion, nothing less nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in not...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in noth...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I care so much about everything that I care about nothing
WILLIAM SAROYAN If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competi...
TAKERU KOBAYASHI San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
JACK LONDON Nothing we can do about it, nothing we can do about it.
GARY FELTY The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
TODD STRASSER The specific package of proposals announced by the administration is much ado about nothing, quite c...
CHRISTOPHER DODD It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's much ado about nothing in some respects,
RICK APPLEGATE Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing about this process has been fair, nothing about this process has been bipartisan, and nothin...
GREGORY CRAIG This is anti-Bluffton and anti-community, ... nothing illegal about it, and nothing we can do to pre...
DON BLAIR Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
DOROTHY THOMPSON He is of a very melancholy disposition. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing t...
GEORGE SANTAYANA a constitutional right . . . and once homosexuality is defined as a constitutional right, there is n...
ROBERT H. BORK The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Even the IMF payment is nothing much to cheer about because nothing on the ground has changed, the g...
JAMES JOWA you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.
C.S. LEWIS I don't know nothing about nothing.
DANNY BAUTISTA But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ...
EDMOND ABOUT It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of noth...
EDMOND ABOUT Believe me my young friend; there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simp...
KENNETH GRAHAME The eftest way. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or becau...
SAMUEL BECKETT 'Falling Skies' is not just about aliens attacking. It's also about humanity, survival, ...
MAXIM KNIGHT We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gentleman is not in your books. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's en...
BILLY GRAHAM The most senseless and fit man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Drugs are too much of a serious problem for a politician to do nothing about.
ELIO DI RUPO Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's onl...
MONICA CROWLEY At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your wealth is nothing,if your character is nothing to write home about.
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MALCOLM X All Coach Karl does is talk about UNC, ... And I can't say nothing about it.
JULIUS HODGE Comparisons are odorous. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
OSCAR WILDE I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know about.
OSCAR WILDE I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
ERASTUS WIMAN The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history ...
ROWAN WILLIAMS Dreaming my life away, counts for nothing, But nothing ever is the end, No, nothing ever is the end.
JOHN FRUSCIANTE There is nothing they can do about it.
LEAH NOURIE There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says ...
TAHEREH MAFI There's nothing on the horizon. There's nothing to speculate about.
LOU PINIELLA Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitionary world. It's t...
TAHEREH MAFI When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much supplies us with plent...
CHINESE PROVERBS People who say it can't be done, end up bragging I knew it would work. They know nothing about every...
BRYAN INDIGO There is nothing beautiful about perfection; those imperfections that you hate so much about yoursel...
PARKER Done to death by slanderous tongues. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's much ado about nothing. Both companies will emerge with no damage.
BOB WALBERG I know that Deformed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Condemned into everlasting redemption. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's nothing untoward about it.
JOHN NICKS There's nothing easy about it.
DAVE WATSON I knew nothing about it.
JAMES KELLEY Everything flows; nothing remains.
HERACLITUS My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, ...
HARRISON FORD Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
EDWARD ABBEY That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before th...
CELESTE ARNOLD I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end bu...
JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace — the world and the heart know nothing a...
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CHINESE PROVERB Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
RAY KNIGHT Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
RAY KNIGHT We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
PETER DRUCKER

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GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
GEORGE SANTAYANA