N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.”
“Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans have always wanted to categorize them. In that way, we think we can have more control over them.”
“Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.”
“Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.”
Source: The Love Secret: The revolutionary new science of romantic relationships
“Naming can limit as well as empower.”
Source: Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
“Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.”
“Naming is an exercise of power. Renaming involves a transfer of power. Unnaming is a stripping of power from the unnamed and often an abuse of power on the part of those who presume to reduce names to numbers, for instance. It takes courage to name what is being deliberately and defensively obscured. Plain language is not always welcome.”
“Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead, sitting there forever, frozen. So, I'm not a great one for these modernist, post modernist, post colonial labels. I think they serve certain purpose. You do need some kind of sign post here and there, but it can also become an end in itself.”
“Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.”
“Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.”
“Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'”
“Naming something beautiful made it so. I'd seen this in the way the church spoke of marriage as a sacred institution and in the one man plus one woman bumper stickers people sported on their vehicles. The same ones my father would hand to any customer passing through his dealership service department.
Naming something ugly had a similar effect. The sound of my mother's vomiting the night she drove me home had taught me this lesson better than anything else ever had. I was gay, had been named as such, a fact that once ingested had to be immediately expelled.”
Source: Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
“Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.”
“Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have.”
Source: Thin Places
“Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.”
“Naming your child Wiseman does not guarantee that he will someday be a wise man … or even just a man.”
“Namun cinta tak pernah hilang harapan
Akan datang lengkung pelangi setelah hujan
Menghubungkan rasa kehilangan dan sakitnya perpisahan.”
Source: Kata: Antologi Puisi
“Namun, keduanya telah mencapai semacam kepandaian dalam teknik yang paling ekstrem sehingga bila mereka menjadi kehabisan tenaga, mereka pun masih dapat memanfaatkan kondisi itu untuk meningkatkan gairah keduanya. Mereka akan menyerahkan diri mereka pada pemujaan tubuh-tubuh sambil menemukan, bahwa periode-periode sisanya dalam bercinta merupakan kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang belum diselidiki, belum dijelajah, jauh lebih kaya daripada sekadar hasrat atau berahi.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Namun pada saat itu, semua sudah terlambat. Aku tidak bisa memutar tangan waktu. Ironis, bukan, untuk seorang pembuat jam? Tak mampu mengatur waktu, walaupun seumur hidup aku habiskan dalam kemurahan hatinya.”
Source: The House of Mirrors
“Namun, rasa sakit akan menguatkan seseorang menapaki hidup. Penderitaan akan menumbuhkan kebijaksanaan. Kesengsaraan yang melewati batas akan melahirkan kekuatan yang tak bisa diduga. (77)”
Source: Assalamualaikum, Beijing!
“Namun satu hal pasti yang dapat kutarik kesimpulan dari semua ini, paling tidak untuk diriku sendiri, adalah: beranilah bermimpi! Beranilah memiliki keinginan! Walau pikiran sadar kita menafikan kemungkinan-kemungkinan itu, tetap beranilah menetapkan tujuan. Karena nyatanya, ketika kita berani memutuskan untuk menggapai mimpi kita, alam bawah sadar kita justru bekerja membantu kemungkinan-kemungkinan mimpi tersebut menjadi kenyataan. Dengan dan lewat cara yang tak pernah kita duga sebelumnya.”
“Namun seseorang tidak perlu menjadi sempurna untuk dicintai.”
Source: Elipsis
“namun sesuatu
memang selalu terjadi pada waktunya, di tempat yang semestinya,
dalam keadaan yang seharusnya. Begitulah adanya.”
Source: Rahasia Salinem
“Namun, tantangan dalam hidup bukanlah terletak pada panjang-pendeknya, tetapi pada kualitasnya, pada seberapa banyak kejutan heboh yang ditimbulkan.”
Source: Voyage de Paris à Java / Un drame au bord de la mer
“Namun, ternyata, jika seseorang hanya memikirkan seseorang, bertahun-tahun, dan dari waktu ke waktu mengenai isi hatinya sendiri dengan cinta hanya untuk orang itu saja, maka saat orang itu pergi, kehilangan menjelma menjadi sakit yang tak tertangguhkan, menggeletar sepanjang waktu. (hlm. 238)”
Source: Padang Bulan
“Namun, tiada kiranya kata pemborosan terhadap waktu bagi orang-orang yang mencari hakekat kasih. Bahwa di dalam kasih, tumbuh di sana perdamaian dan bukan juga cuma pertikaian, melainkan berbaur keduanya dalam suatu kesepadanan yang tulen”
Source: Ca-bau-kan: Hanya sebuah dosa
“Nan had known, as a child, that God did not answer prayers for more candy or new shoes. Those were worldly things, not sacred. God answered prayers about being a better friend, or being able to get a good grade on a test. God gave wisdom and the ability to work hard. God did not change the circumstances of your life, God changed you.”
Source: The Dearly Beloved
“Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.”
Source: The Shack
“Nan satitiak jadikan lawuik, nan sakapa jadikan gunuang, alam takambang jadi guru. Yang setetes jadikan laut, yang sekepal jadikan gunung, alam terkembang jadi guru.”
Source: Anak Rantau
“Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. ..but she never realized how much pain it brought her.... -Nana Komatsu”
“Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.”
“Nana, how come we don't got a car?' 'Boy, what do we need a car for? We got a bus that breathes fire, and old Mr. Daniels, who always has a trick for you.”
Source: Last Stop on Market Street
“Nana, I'll hold your hands when I say this." Mia glances at me before continuing. My barely controlled anger is written all over my face, but even that does not deter her. My whole keep-away look is lost on her.
"I've never seen Dad so smitten before. But you would know her.”
Source: Healing Touch
“Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket”
Source: The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy Family Meals
“Nana used to say that if you don't let the tears out of you they can turn to poison.”
Source: Sometimes I Lie
“Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.”
Source: Chosen at Nightfall
“Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why.”
“Nanak’s encounter of God and God’s court was in fact a profound hallucinatory Near-Death Experience caused by drowning that strengthened his pre-conceived notion of a rational, compassionate and unorthodox society.”
Source: Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
“Nanak wanted to preach people that God loves both the Hindus and the Muslims the same way. Believing in his spiritual encounter, he wanted to eliminate the distance between the Hindus and the Muslims by teaching the words of equality and One God. But just like usual, he ended up forming yet another religion which became more and more hardcore with its own rituals and regulations in the hands of the subsequent nine Gurus.”
Source: The God Parasite: Revelation of Neuroscience
“Nancy
According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust braided into strands and streamers of information, proteins and DNA, double helixes of stardust. In every cell of my body there is a thread of stardust as long as my arm.”
“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.”
“Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
(Exchange with Winston Churchill)”
“Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.”
“Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.”
“Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.”
“Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.”
“Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't.”
“Nancy is single-handedly keeping the pharmaceutical industry afloat financially. Luckily, we found the world's largest pillbox to organize a full week's worth of her medicines at a time.”
Source: Night Reflections: A True Story of Friendship, Love, Cancer, and Survival
“Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.”