Zero Quotes - Page 34

• The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

  William Styron

  Depression, Psychics, Storm

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• His fingertips slid down from my face, lightly stroking the line of my neck, down toward my shoulder. Everywhere he touched, a trail of goose bumps appeared. How did he keep doing this to me? Marcus—who made every girl in the world swoon—had zero effect on me. But one whisper of a touch from Adrian completely undid me.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Bumps, World

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• while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Love Is, Tennis, Would Be

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• There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

  Max Brooks

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

  Max Brooks (2010). “World War Z”, p.43, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn — Chang’s Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt’s precision-balance is really noticeable in these long —” “JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!

  J. K. Rowling

  Long, Balance, Looks

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• What if I promise not to touch you?" "Cath laughed. "Now I have zero incentive to come." "What if I promise to let you touch me first?" "Are you kidding? I'm the untrustworthy person in this relationship. I'm all hands." "I've seen no evidence of that, Cath." "In my head, I'm all hands." "I want to live in your head.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hands, Promise, What If

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.627, St. Martin's Griffin

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• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Men, Self

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

  Philip Morrison

  Chance, Difficult, Probability

  Philip Morrison (1997). “Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True”, p.180, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!

  Ian Somerhalder

  Jobs, Technology, Organization

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• If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Mass Destruction, Korea

  "CNN Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2003.

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• Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, World, Common

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.

  Sam de Jong

  Thinking, People, Liberty

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it means to pray. We have to recast our whole understanding of God. We live on the other side of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, a whole group of people who have recast the way we think about reality.

  John Shelby Spong

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible to have one source of infinite copies, was incredible for us. Using tapes or CD's to make copies would have been so unwieldy. We have shows that have zero downloads, which makes me sad, but they're all freely available at any time. The most downloaded show was the one with the best audio quality, but I didn't think it was a very interesting show.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Cds, Interesting

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I still am amazed by the reaction I get from people when I tell them that there was zero immigration in this country from 1924 to 1965. And the reason that people don't know that, A, they just don't know it, it's not reported, it's never been part of history class, history education.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Class, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one part. You're not dealing with anything in real time, you're constantly moving and constantly going. You're drinking to get away from things, things your dealing with. My wife might be calling me trying to argue and I don't wanna deal with it so I just go drink and by the time we talk again I'm so drunk I just don't care. I'll just deal with it however.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Real, Drinking, Moving

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

  Jesse Jackson

  Basketball, School, Cutting

  Source: www.colorlines.com

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• There is a real attempt to sanitize the CIA killings and to glorify the CIA and to give it a new face. That's what happened with Zero Dark Thirty, that's what happened with Michelle Obama... When she appeared my jaw dropped; I couldn't believe it... These were really a disgusting propaganda films, glorifying the role of the CIA.

  Medea Benjamin

  Real, Believe, Dark

  Source: progressive.org

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• The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.

  Medea Benjamin

  Dark, Squad, Phases

  Source: progressive.org

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• Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Years, Differences, Ten

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it should be zero. There is no role for geo-engeneering. Because what is geoengineering but extending the engineering paradigm?

  Vandana Shiva

  Responsibility, Engineering, Decision

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

  Stephen Fry

  Sweet, Long, Giving

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• My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

  Mindy Kaling

  Creativity, Parent, Supportive

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• Eve: Shut up, we have zero time for you and your bullshit dramatics Monica: Or what, you'll bleed on me, Emo Princess of Freakdomonia? Claire: Fine. You come with us. If you get in my way, I'll kill you.

  Rachel Caine

  Emo, Princess, Bullshit

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• In the dime stores and bus stations
 People talk of situations
 Read books, repeat quotations
 Draw conclusions on the wall
 Some speak of the future
 My love she speaks softly
 She knows there’s no success like failure
 And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Book, People

  Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

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