I thought all my hard work was for nothing.

But when you show yourself to stand for anything, you prove that you stand for nothing at all.

He had spent 18 months on loan at Rangers and Sunderland and with his contract due to expire at the end of the season, there was no obvious likelihood it was going to be extended beyond triggering the option that would mean he wasn't simply able to walk away for nothing.

At first, it may feel as though the special counsel’s efforts were for nothing, but that’s false.

In her 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital, author Samantha Harvey puts it more lyrically: "A robot has no need for hydration, nutrients, excretion, sleep… It wants and asks for nothing."