I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
I'm an Ultimate Fighter winner at 170. At 155, I'm always proving myself. I have nothing to prove to any of the fans, but to myself, it's my skillset.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties.
As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.
I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.
Nothing gets my blood pumping like a little Animotion.
