Nothing
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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
As I read more and more — and it was not all verse, by any means — my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life — unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours — the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career — how many tickets are sold.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
The first few years I was competing, I'd ride so well in practice, then choke and fall in competition. Now I take a deep breath and say, 'Look at me. I'm outside. I'm doing what I love'. Still, nothing's matched the pressure I felt standing at the top of the halfpipe for the first time at the Olympics.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
There's so much grey to every story — nothing is so black and white.
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
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