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Nothing Quotes

Sometimes nothing says the most.

"Nothing" carries surprisingly different tones across this set — frustration with limited consumer protections sits next to warm nostalgia for a cheap, music-filled stretch of life in Paris. For quotes on affection and belonging, see Love quotes.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Quotes by Ellen G. White

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant...

Quotes by Ellen Key

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

Quotes by Ella R. Bloor

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

Quotes by Ella Woodward

As for relationships, I know nothing. I'm an idiot; I can't get it right.

Quotes by Elle King

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

Quotes by Elle Macpherson

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

Quotes by Elle Macpherson

My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.

Quotes by Elle Macpherson

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

Quotes by Ellen DeGeneres

You are always special. Nothing can change that.

Quotes by Elizabeth Smart

'Jeopardy!' contestant Ken Jennings' winning streak has been nothing short of remarkable.

Quotes by Elizabeth Vargas

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true...

Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund - I don't even have a savings...

Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

Quotes by Elizabeth Marvel

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

Quotes by Elizabeth McGovern

Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that...

Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Quotes by Elizabeth Hurley

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Quotes by Elizabeth I

Frequently Asked Questions

What do the "Nothing" quotes on this page cover?
A mix of consumer frustration, nostalgia, and personal reflection - one speaker criticizes Amazon for not doing enough to protect customers, another recalls buying cheap CD collections while living in Paris, and others reflect on identity and contentment.
Is there a quote about consumer protection or companies?
Yes, one quote describes frustration with Amazon, saying the company protects against a small credit card liability but falls short elsewhere, without fully spelling out what's missing in the excerpt shown.
Is there a quote about living abroad?
Yes, one quote recalls nine years spent in Paris starting in '98, remembering wonderful CD collections that could be found there for almost nothing. For more reflections shaped by personal experience, see the Life page.
Does this page include anything about identity or feeling like an outsider?
Yes - one quote reflects on having many fans who are people of color, and on understanding "that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally." The Like page has more reflections in a similar vein.
Is there a simple, upbeat quote here about contentment?
Yes, one quote is just a short, plain statement: "I have nothing to complain about." For more short, feel-good lines, check out the Good page, or browse Love for warmer sentiments.

Other entries turn the word toward feeling like an outsider, or toward a quieter kind of satisfaction with having very little to complain about. Continue with Good quotes for a more upbeat register, or Life quotes for broader reflection.