N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.”
“Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Never before did the second amendment mean so much to the people of the United States. There were many well-regulated militias that became necessary for the security of every state, which meant the right of the people to keep and bear arms was detrimental for their survival and that right should not be infringed. Otherwise, the strong would surely overpower the weak.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Never before had a person of the Sun Court risen to Blood Hunter status....Yet here she was. The first Sun Court Blood Hunter: Warrior for the weak and the powerless. A great honor.
And still it was not enough to pay her debt or quell her nightmare.”
Source: Vengeance Hunter
“Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did”
Source: My art, my life: an autobiography
“Never before had he seen a woman so angry—or so seductive. It rendered him speechless. He couldn’t fight the compulsion to kiss her.
She punched him on the chin, snapping his head back.”
Source: Rebel's Honor
“Never before had he told a woman he loved her, meaning it the way he did now. In the past they were only convenient words—a means to satisfy what he thought to be some sort of basic female need. Not this time. This time those words satisfied a need within him,”
“Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teachers and tutors without quite knowing why. I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset. That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone, changed my life.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.”
Source: The Historian
“Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.”
Source: Eclipse
“Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.”
“Never before had there been a prince quite like him: born with his heart on the outside of his body.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.”
Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”
“Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.”
“Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.”
“Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.”
“Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.”
“Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.”
“Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.”
“Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.”
“Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.”
Source: Future primitive: and other essays
“Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.”
“Never before have the American people had their noses so deeply in one another's business. If I announce that I and eleven other diners shared a thirty-seven-course lunch that likely cost as much as a new Volvo station wagon, Those of a critical nature will let their minds run in tiny, aghast circles of condemnation. My response to them is that none of us twelve disciples of gourmandise wanted a new Volvo. We wanted only lunch and since lunch lasted approximately eleven hours we saved money by not having to buy diner. The defense rests.”
“Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.”
“Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.”
Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944
“Never before have we known what we know.”
“Never before have you had the chance to build a personal brand like you can today.”
Source: Make It Rain!: How to Use the Media to Revolutionize Your Business & Brand
“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”
“Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.”
“Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.”
Source: The White Tiger
“Never before in modern memory had a people who slaughtered another people, or in whose name the slaughter was carried out, been expected to live with the remainder of the people that was slaughtered, completely intermingled, in the same tiny communities, as one cohesive national society.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.”
“Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.”
Source: Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future
“Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.”
Source: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
“Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.”
Source: The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
“Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.”
“Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded.”
“Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.”
Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age
“Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.”
“Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.”
“Never beg for love or to be loved! Love must be shown, but should never be begged for.”
“Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.”
“Never Beg SOMEONE to be in your life, You just have to believe that, You're worth more than you think”
“Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.”
“Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.”
“Never begrudge the seed you sow in good soil, for it is the harvest that comes from that sowing that will determine whether you live or die next spring. Think not only for this day, but for the one that is to come.”
Source: Prince of Dogs
“Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?”
“Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.”