N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Never have children, only grandchildren.”
Source: Palimpsest: a memoir
“Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.”
“Never have hatred toward any religion.”
“Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.”
“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”
“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age”
Source: Persons and Places: My host the world
“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”
“Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.”
“Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.”
Source: W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes
“Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.”
“Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company”
“Never have I had the impression of such a moral and civic downfall. In no country, not even the last of the last, what is happening here would be possible.”
“Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.”
Source: Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
“Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.”
“Never have I though so much, ever have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself if may so say, as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work.”
“Never have I thought so much, never have I realised my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself ... as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place ; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work. The sight of the country, the succession of beautiful scenes ... releases my soul, gives me greater courage of thought, throws me as it were into the midst of the immensity of the objects of Nature ... my heart, surveying one object after another, unites itself, identifies itself with those in sympathy with it, surrounds itself with delightful images, intoxicates itself with emotions the most exquisite.”
Source: Confessions
“Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.”
“Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and
the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced
by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land,
the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets
of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly
speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed
all around me by people of all colours.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.”
“Never have more children than you have car windows.”
“Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.”
“Never have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby.”
“Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“Never have public feuds with anyone who's surrounded by people who carry guns.”
“Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.”
“Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.”
“Never have so many left so much to so few.”
“Never have so many men treated women like our foes. They call 'em hoes, but they might as well call them foes, 'cause you are totally against the existence of somebody who should live their life as an equal human being. If not, any man knows, it's like we're not equal. You know, women are usually a little better than us.”
“Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.”
“Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.”
Source: Economic Controversies
“Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.”
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for Beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.”
“Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.”
“Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.”
“Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.”
“Never having alone time is real tough on people.”
“Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.”
“Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”
“Never having experienced inequality, therefore, the majority of straight white men will be absolutely oblivious to their own advantages – not because they must necessarily be insensitive, sexist, racist, homophobic or unaware of the principles of equality; but because they have been told, over and over again, that there is no inequality left for them – or anyone else – to experience – and everything they have experienced up to that point will only have proved them right.
Let the impact of that sink in for a moment.
By teaching children and teenagers that equality already exists, we are actively blinding the group that most benefits from inequality – straight white men – to the prospect that it doesn’t. Privilege to them feels indistinguishable from equality, because they’ve been raised to believe that this is how the world behaves for everyone. And because the majority of our popular culture is straight-white-male-dominated, stories that should be windows into empathy for other, less privileged experiences have instead become mirrors, reflecting back at them the one thing they already know: that their lives both are important and free from discrimination.
And this hurts men. It hurts them by making them unconsciously perpetrate biases they’ve been actively taught to despise. It hurts them by making them complicit in the distress of others. It hurts them by shoehorning them into a restrictive definition masculinity from which any and all deviation is harshly punished. It hurts them by saying they will always be inferior parents and caregivers, that they must always be active and aggressive even when they long for passivity and quietude, that they must enjoy certain things like sports and beer and cars or else be deemed morally suspect. It hurts them through a process of indoctrination so subtle and pervasive that they never even knew it was happening , and when you’ve been raised to hate inequality, discovering that you’ve actually been its primary beneficiary is horrifying – like learning that the family fortune comes from blood money.
Blog post 4/12/2012: Why Teaching Equality Hurts Men”
“Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.”
“Never having made a mistake is a success that is always inferior to having made a mistake and having learned from it.”
“Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.”
“Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“Never having something is different than having something and losing it.”
“Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could do. I managed to write some rather pretty pieces for him, except that the first six notes of the first piece all need to be played on open strings. So when he begins to play the audience will probably think he's tuning the bloody thing up!”
“Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.”
“Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.”