N Quotes
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“Naomi, I asked you to suck my cock, you’d have your mouth wrapped around it so fast, you’d break the sound barrier.”
“Naomi makes a face and points to the potted flowers near the front door of her houseboat. "Just look at that," she says, as if something upsetting has happened.
She reaches into one of the pots and pulls out a green vine, a few feet long, with several bell-shaped flowers. "There," she says with a vindicated look in her eye, as if this vine has wronged her in some way.
"What is it?" I ask.
She flashes a patronizing smile. "An invasive weed," she says, tossing the vine into the lake. I watch the little white flowers flutter in the water. I want to kneel down and rescue them from drowning. "Morning glory," Naomi continues, shaking her head. "It'll take over if you let it."
I watch as the vine drifts away on the lake. The little flowers bob up and down as if gasping for air. I consider that the vine might find its way to shore and wash up on a patch of soil, where it will start a new existence, maybe sink its roots and thrive. Maybe Naomi has set it free.
I think of the bluebells that grew in my mother's garden when I was a child. Weeds, really. But I'd pick them by the handful, and when bunched together they looked stunning.”
Source: Morning Glory
“Naomi's my girlfriend," I say aloud, just to test the words, see how they feel fucking across my lips. Ronnie flips a page in an old copy of Rollin' Strong magazine and ignores me.
"Yeah, we heard. Sixteen times since we came in here," Josh bitches.”
Source: Bad Day
“Naomi seems to think “rest” and “husbands” can be found in Moab. “Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as at the time of Massah in the desert, when your ancestors challenged me, put me to the test, and saw what I could do! For forty years that generation sickened me, and I said, ‘Always fickle hearts; they cannot grasp my ways.’ Then in my anger I swore they would never enter my place of rest.” –Ps 95:8-11
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 23”
Source: Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material
“Naomi smiled. Laughed. It was strange how it made the darkness better. Not less dark. Just better, even though it still was what it was.”
Source: Babylon’s Ashes
“NAOMI, THE GODDESS OF OASIS
It was a cool evening when destiny called, Naomi. The call that will revive the hearts of the children of men. Destiny presented herself like a Rose. With thorns that makes the crown.
Destiny is beautiful.
An enigma of peace that ponder the hearts of men.
She adores herself with the blood of motherhood. Smiling in tears and with care she nurtures every soul.
She's nature's friend, the waters that pushes with the wind and moves in path with her lings.
Her nature is beauty and her songs nourishes the soul of men. Her light illuminates their Hope's and tears are wiped with her smiles.
Oh daughter of the great land of Ozoro, the pride of her mother land. The rainbow rose that illuminates the garden of doubts. May your voice sends peace to the wailing hearts.
May your day never grow dark on the mornings and may your evening be the time your waistline is with tiring and your love round about you.
Great daughter of the forest kingdom. Enigma of royalty. Pride of her love. Queen of the Desert Kingdom. Goddess of Oasis
Poem by Victor Vote to Atabeh Rezi.
©️2021 by VVF”
“Naomi Wolf wrote, in The Beauty Myth, about the peculiar fact that beauty requirements have escalated as women’s subjugation has decreased. It’s as if our culture has mustered an immune-system response to continue breaking the fever of gender equality—as if some deep patriarchal logic has made it that women need to achieve ever-higher levels of beauty to make up for the fact that we are no longer economically and legally dependent on men. One waste of time had been traded for another, Wolf wrote. Where women in mid-century America had been occupied with “inexhaustible but ephemeral” domestic work, beating back disorder with fastidious housekeeping and consumer purchases, they were now occupied by inexhaustible but ephemeral beauty work, spending huge amounts of time, anxiety, and money to adhere to a standard over which they had no control. Beauty constituted a sort of “third shift,” Wolf wrote—an extra obligation in every possible setting.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“Naomi... You- You're Shrek-ing.”
“Nap time over. Gonna go be active. Do it people!!! In the end all you have is your health.”
“Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest!”
“Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walking along the main street, it suddenly began to rain and, as if on command, there was an umbrella over every head. That was a symbol of cowardice and vulgar effeminacy, the end product of civilization. An incident like the sinking of the Titanic was atavistic, true, but its effect was most refreshing, it was the handwriting on the wall. Afterward, of course, came the hue and cry for more security in shipping. How pitiful, but such weak-willed humanitarianism squared very nicely with the wolfish cruelty and villainy of slaughter on the economic battlefield known as the bourgeois state. War, war ! He was all for it – the universal lust for war seemed quite honorable in comparison.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“Napkin story”
“Naples, however, did not need buskers: the cacophony of frenzied traffic made its own music with melodic beeping of horns in a repertoire of rhythms and beats reflecting drivers’ moods. Stravinsky might have composed the music as a choreographer might have choreographed the vehicles’ dances – zigzagging, twisting, turning, stopping and starting.”
Source: A Glimmer Through the Breach
“Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.”
Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author
“Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.”
“Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.”
“Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.”
“Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.”
“Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.”
“Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.”
“Napoleon Hill also rehashed 'thoughts create things' when he wrote Think & Grow Rich in 1937 (although it had taken him 25 years to complete).”
Source: NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
“Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.”
“Napoleon is always right.”
Source: The Play of George Orwell's Animal Farm
“Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.”
Source: Theme and Variations: An Autobiography
“Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.”
“Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon!”
“Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just.”
“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.”
Source: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Volume I)
“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.”
“Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?”
Source: The Red and the Black
“Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!”
“Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.”
Source: Sermons
“Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.”
“Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'
Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)”
“Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.”
Source: Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds
“Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.”
Source: The Horizon book of the age of Napoleon
“NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.”
“Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.”
“Napoleón no cenaba dos veces, ni podía tampoco tener más amantes de las que tiene cualquier estudiante de Medicina, no sé si me comprendes... Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, tiene que caber siempre entre nuestros pies y nuestro occipucio, y, tanto si cuesta un millón al año como cien luises, la percepción intrínseca de ella es la misma en nuestro interior.”
Source: Père Goriot
“Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.”
“Nappo lo prese in mano perplesso. Ci volle un po’ perché riuscisse ad aprirlo. Era per via delle dita. Aveva dita corte e sbozzate come dei torsoli sputati da una trebbia difettosa. Quelle dita avevano deciso il suo destino. Quando, da bambino, aveva espresso il desiderio di suonare la fisarmonica, sua madre l’aveva guardato con dolcezza. “Con quali dita?” gli aveva chiesto. “Perché non provi con un altro strumento? Cosa ne pensi della roncola?”
Source: Un Maledetto Lavoro
“Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.”
“Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.”
“Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.”
“Naps are not a sign of physical slovenliness. They are a sign that I am listening to my body. It will reward me with stable emotions, hormones that stay in check, social finesse, continued cleverness, and the ability to write prose that does not make me gag.”
Source: A Creature Was Stirring
“Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.”
“Napsautan rasian kiinni ja nauran. Minulla on keltaiset pitkät ham-
paat ja suu täynnä kuolaa. Ihoa reitittävät yöperhosten polut, joita voi
kulkea minne tahansa. Kun voi kulkea minne tahansa, on helppo
jäädä tähän taloon, joka on oleva hevosen talo.”
Source: Kengitetyn eläimen jäljet
“Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.”