N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.”
“Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is-if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch" ~ Trez
'The Shadows' page 205”
Source: The Shadows
“Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!”
Source: The Adolescent
“Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons”
“Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.”
“Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.”
“Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.”
“Never mind. Bye, Carmen. Don't go out and get radical or anything."
THE PINATA-MAKER'S DAUGHTER”
“Never mind failures; they are quite natural,
they are the beauty of life, these failures.
What would be LIFE without them”
“Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Never mind, just make it fun, nice and useful.”
“Never mind love. After all, what is it? The dream of a few weeks. That is all its joy. The disappointment of a life is its Nemesis. Who was ever successful in true love? Success in love argues that the love is false. True love is always despondent or tragical. Juliet loved, Haidee loved, Dido loved, and what came of it? Troilus loved and ceased to be a man.”
Source: Barchester Towers
“Never mind love. After all, what is it? The dream of a few weeks. That is all its joy. The disappointment of a life is its Nemesis. Who was ever successful in true love? Success in love argues that the love is false. True love is always despondent or tragical.’ . . . ‘There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
Source: Barchester Towers
“Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.”
Source: Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)
“Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.”
“Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist millions will be able to identify with – and the music of Lindquist’s language is a perfect match for the subject. I think he’s the writer to watch in the new millennium.”
“Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.”
“Never mind,’ says the old woman. ‘It won’t hurt for long. You’ll go crazy, or they’ll hang you. Easy as that, really.”
Source: Black Wine
“Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.”
“Never mind. Sorry. Everything can wait. Let’s stay on topic. You feel I’ve neglected you. Physically in general. Kissing specifically. Fair enough. Challenge accepted.”
“Challenge? I didn’t issue any challenge.” Did I?
“Let’s do this.”
“Do what?”
“I’m going to kiss you.”
“Whoa!” My hands flew into the air and I moved to escape. “This is stupid.”
He blocked my path. “Hold on. Not stupid at all. You have a valid point, just give me a minute.” He rolled his shoulders, shook out his arms, rocked on the balls of his feet a few times, took a deep breath, and exhaled slowly. “Okay. I’m ready.”
I frowned. “You have to gear-up to kiss me?”
Source: Drop Dead Demons
“Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.”
“Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.”
“Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.”
Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Never mind that. What's going on with you and Heath?"
Annabelle pulled a little wide-eyed innocence out of her rusty bag of college acting skills.
"What do you mean? Business."
"Don't give me that. We've been friends too long."
She switched to a furrowed brow. "He's my most important client. You know how much this means to me."
Molly wasn't buying it. "I've seen the way you look at him. Like he was a slot machine with triple sevens tattooed on his forehead. If you fall in love with him, I swear I'll never speak to
you again."
Annabelle nearly choked. She'd known Molly would be suspicious, but she hadn't expected an outright confrontation. "Are you nuts? Setting aside the fact that he treats me like a flunky, I'd never fall for a workaholic after what I've had to go through with my family." Falling in lust, however, was an entirely different matter.
"He has a calculator for a heart," Molly said.
"I thought you liked him.”
Source: Match Me If You Can
“Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.”
Source: Up the Down Staircase
“Never mind the eighty percent of the population who fell below the poverty line. They couldn’t afford to complain and risk losing their dole.”
Source: Dreck
“Never mind the letter, Susie; you have so much to do; just write me every week one line, and let it be, "Emily, I love you," and I will be satisfied!”
“Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?”
“Never mind the stillness -
the deep sleeps to awake.
- The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin, Verse 6.”
Source: Poems of Nazım Hikmet
“Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.”
“Never mind the use--do it!”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.”
“Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.”
“Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.”
“Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“Never mind what I told you - you do as I tell you.”
“Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time”
“Never mind what makes Canadas constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.”
“Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.”
“Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.”
“Never mind what she was; look at what she is!”
Source: Wives and Daughters
“Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.”
“Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.”
“Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.”
“Never mind, you know the word must; with that word one does many things.”
Source: Twenty Years After
“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy