Welcome to Nothing New Quotes, a curated collection of thought-provoking and timeless quotes that delve into the essence of the familiar, the commonplace, and the enduring aspects of life. In a world where novelty often takes center stage, these quotes serve as gentle reminders that there is profound wisdom to be found in the everyday. From the mundane routines to the simplest pleasures, these quotes shed light on the beauty and significance of what may seem ordinary at first glance.
In this compilation, you’ll discover words of wisdom from a diverse array of voices spanning cultures, generations, and experiences. Whether it’s an insightful observation, a poignant reflection, or a humorous take on the mundane, each quote offers a fresh perspective that invites contemplation and appreciation for the seemingly mundane aspects of our lives. Through these quotes, we’re reminded that there is richness to be found in the familiar, and that sometimes, it’s the simplest things that hold the greatest meaning. Join us on this journey as we explore the profound in the ordinary, and discover the magic within the mundane.
‘There’s nothing new under the sun’: that’s what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. Wislawa Szymborska
Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had ‘gone Democrat.’ Margaret Hoover
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new. Judd Rose
Rahul Gandhi has promised to remove poverty and unemployment. There is nothing new about the election promises of Congress. Had only half of those promises been fulfilled, India would have been the most prosperous country in the world today. Rajnath Singh
My sister is married to a white guy, so it’s nothing new for our family. Rachel Lindsay
There’s nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time. Tom Hodgkinson
After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he’d taken the guitar introduction to ‘Johnny B. Goode’ from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different – they might be, too. Greil Marcus
State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new. Adam Cohen
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. Mahatma Gandhi
Don’t be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film. Seph Lawless
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook – each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s. Daniel H. Wilson
Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new. Peter Schuyler
I have always fought for respect, I have always fought for survival, so fighting is nothing new to me. Vijay Deverakonda
I’ve certainly had shooting slumps in the past. It’s nothing new. You go through stretches like that. Gordon Hayward
A black athlete being reduced to a savage is, sadly, nothing new. Jemele Hill
Some people say there’s nothing new under the sun. I still think that there’s room to create, you know. And intuition doesn’t necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within. Pharrell Williams
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new – it’s a cottage industry. Roger Ailes
I live in Vegas, and in my bedroom, the first thing you see is a turntable. I always stay sharp. I’ve been doing this since I was a kid, so it’s nothing new. Eric B.
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. Marie Antoinette
There’s nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air. Angela Rye
In a way, there’s nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it. Jesse Andrews
My whole life, I’ve been called ‘Just a pretty face,’ or, ‘You’ll never amount to anything, you don’t really have anything to offer, but your looks.’ It’s never defined who I am, I mean, I’ve heard it my whole life, it’s nothing new. Mandy Rose
The OPPA route is nothing new. It follows the decades-old liberal agenda on trade, health care, global warming, and mass unionization. That agenda has never brought prosperity to workers. Elaine Chao
Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some. Lisa Madigan
There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we’re just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again – so what makes people keep watching and listening? It’s all about the character. Jeremy Renner
It’s true that you often have arguments with players as you do in everyday life and that’s nothing new. Quique Setien
There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women’s health. Patty Murray
I guess I’ve always lived the glamorous life of a star. It ‘s nothing new – I used to spend down to the last dime. Freddie Mercury
Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care. David Sax
In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It’s nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever. Carmen Carrera
I haven’t read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true. Layne Staley
I’ve heard all my life how I’m too short or not big enough to play this game. It’s nothing new. Doug Baldwin
There’s nothing new about fashionable women borrowing from men’s style; just think of Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, or Diane Keaton. Kayleen Schaefer
The birth of the search engine, it’s nothing new: it’s essentially embedded in our literature; it’s how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they’re made through degrees of relevancy between different terms. Joshua Cohen
There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state. Anne Applebaum
FDR created today’s 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There’s nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain. Arthur C. Brooks
There’s nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that’s existing and introducing it in a way that hasn’t been done. Yoon Ahn
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. Michael Eisner
The Seekers have done most things that you’d want to do and when we broke up in the ’60s it was partly because we sort of felt we’d done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new. Judith Durham
No More Avengers! There’s nothing new to get out of it – I want to go forward, not backward. Honor Blackman
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I’ve been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. Geddy Lee
Writing takes gall. I like to think that’s true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something – guts, gumption, self-delusion – to ask for a reader’s time when we all know there’s nothing new under the sun; that it’s all been said, or written, before. Rumaan Alam
Welsh rugby has done its dirty washing in public. It’s nothing new. We’re a tribal bunch. If warring parties want to sway public opinion, they do it in the public arena. Alun Wyn Jones
It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players. Jonathan Agnew
No matter how many awards you’ve won or how many sales you’ve got, come the next book it’s still a blank sheet of paper and you’re still panicking like hell that you’ve got nothing new to say. Ian Rankin
There is nothing new in art except talent. Anton Chekhov
There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that’s always a bad sign. They remade ‘Frankenstein’ 26 times between 1930 and 1970, so it’s not a new phenomenon. Drew Daywalt
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it’s nothing new. Ben Katchor
When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there’s nothing new under the sun, but there’s always a fresh way of looking at something. That’s why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten. Jacki Weaver
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. George Henry Lewes
I think there’s always pressure at Arsenal to win trophies – it’s nothing new – and to us, as players, we know what we are capable of doing. Aaron Ramsey
There’s nothing new about European anti-Americanism. To go to a dinner party of intellectuals in Paris in 1960 was like walking into a tiger’s den with a piece of raw meat in your hands. Charles McCarry
It’s not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, ‘Oh, my God, what a bummer.’ We like emotionally moving experiences. It’s nothing new. It’s catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks. Gayle Forman
I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you’re a has-been and have nothing new to offer. Amanda Lear
I won’t tackle something like furries, because there’s nothing new to say. Also, I won’t do anything that I think will put my life at risk. Nikki Glaser
The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it’s nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that’s why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. Holly Hunter
A new era doesn’t come from nothing. New thoughts, values and methods will be established after overcoming various hurdles on the way. Park Won-soon
Soul music as we’ve always known it hasn’t changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically. Don Cornelius
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun. Jim Mattis
For me, talking about the casting couch in the Malayalam film industry was like calling the sky blue. There is nothing new about calling a spade a spade. My intention was not to create an effect; I just wanted to pluck a few weeds in the system and throw them out. Parvathy
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what’s going to come next – when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they’re thrown away. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics – just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. Eric Alterman
Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me. Nemanja Matic
We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We’ve always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It’s who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country. Blase J. Cupich
People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there’s nothing new. Trombone Shorty
Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry. Daisy Shah
The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new. Peter Maurer
Scoring goals is nothing new for me. Every time I go out onto that pitch, I just go out there to score goals. Tammy Abraham
I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I’ve been asked many times, because it’s like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I’m happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I’ll carry on. Gary Numan
Silat is nothing new to my family, it’s been there for generations. Iko Uwais
Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From ‘Wall-E’ to ‘Avatar,’ corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits. Mark Fisher
We talk about globalization today as if it’s some great big new thing, that we’ve all just discovered. But there’s really nothing new about it. Jacqueline Winspear
Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new. As far back as 1920, Lenin declared that parliaments were ‘historically obsolete’ and predicted that it was just a matter of time before they disappeared. Anne Applebaum
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. Bobby Jones
Nothing wrong with retouching – nothing new about retouching. David Bailey
Giving back to your community – we’ve done that forever, that’s nothing new. Patty Mills
Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years. Richard Coles
That the CDU has different political views on the topic of redistribution, on the topic of uniform social standards… than the French have, that is nothing new. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
I’m saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does. Timothy Simons
The refusal to snitch out of a pathological hatred for police is nothing new. Eric Adams
Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we’re discovering, it’s been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, ‘Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.’ And it doesn’t matter if it’s from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective. Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. Abraham Lincoln
I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there’s been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper. Eddie Rabbitt
I was at Marseille and had four coaches in four seasons. Changing coaches is nothing new. Samir Nasri
In my opinion, there’s nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else. Simon McBurney
When I was a little kid we got whipped. It was nothing new to me, I was used to it. Michel’le
In football, I’m not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as… you might say an ‘old fox.’ Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me. Jose Mourinho
There’s nothing new, even ‘new’ is inspired by something. We’re all, either consciously or unconsciously, we’re inspired. Cory Barlog
Obviously, the big hits like ‘Shout,’ ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World,’ ‘Head Over Heels,’ we play live, so there’s nothing new about them to me. Roland Orzabal
But it’s true, it’s nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they’re to be made, and who’s to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do. Jeffrey Jones
I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter. Camille Claudel
The black community has always complained about abuse from cops. It’s nothing new. But now, more people are seeing visual examples of what they’ve been complaining about. That’s one thing that has changed over time. Ron Stallworth
Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to crowd out social issues like helping the most vulnerable in society. Grant Shapps
As someone who’s been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new. Dan Rather
I played there a couple of times in Leverkusen, playing as the striker was nothing new for me I knew what to do – it was fully okay. Andre Schurrle
Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff. Amy Winehouse
Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun. Meshell Ndegeocello
There’s nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that’s a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place. Hari Kunzru
Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is. Saskia de Brauw