N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Never think you've seen the last of anything.”
“Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.”
Source: Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage
“Never thought a Dr. Faucie is more powerful than a US president?
Bill Clinton did not got impeached for cheating on Hillary but for lying to Congress!
Faucie lied to the congress and still in the office, and get paid more than a US president!”
“Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.”
“never thought I'd see a jaguar brought to its knees by rhino shit." Oberon”
Source: Trapped
“Never thought I'd be a bobble-head, but little did I know.”
“Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.”
Source: On a Pale Horse
“Never thought I’d intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I meant it when I said I would sleep anywhere with her.”
“Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.”
“Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.”
Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
“Never throw a cup of tea in a man's face unless his beard is on fire”
Source: Mrs Finnegan's guide to Love, life and laxatives
“Never throw away food when you have the poor near you, remember that you are an ambassador of god on earth”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or garlic smells from your fingers. Or you can stick them on your elbows while you are reading a book, to soften and whiten your skin.”
Source: Two Fat Ladies Obsessions
“Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.”
“Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.”
“Never throw into double coverage.”
“Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.”
“Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.”
“Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.”
“Never throw out anyone.”
“Never Throw Stones At Your Mother”
“Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.”
Source: Hit List: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.”
Source: The Reckoners Series
“Never throw up on an editor.”
“Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.”
“Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”
“Never tickle your vanity with a vanity press...always go indie and never pay to get published.”
Source: Into The Madness
“Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!”
“Never tire to study. And to teach to others”
“Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.”
Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes
“Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Never to be frightened of taking risks and always follow your instincts!”
“Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.”
Source: A Prelude to a Kiss and Other Plays
“Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Never to despise in myself what I have been taught
to despise. Nor to despise the other.
Not to despise the it. To make this relation
with the it: to know that I am it.”
Source: Out of silence: selected poems
“Never to feel his own feelings sincerely, and to rise his pallid triumph to the point of regarding his own ambitions, longings and desires with indifference; to pass alongside his joys anxieties as if passing by someone who doesn't interest him …
The greatest self-mastery is to be indifferent towards ourselves, to see our body and soul as merely the house and grounds where Destiny willed that we spend our life. To treat our own dreams and deepest desires with arrogance, en grand seigneur, politely and carefully ignoring them. To act modestly in our own presence; to realize that we are never truly alone, since we are our own witnesses, and should therefore act before ourselves as before a stranger, with a studied and serene outward manner – indifferent because it's noble, and cold because it's indifferent.
In order not to sink in our own estimation, all we have to do is quit having ambitions, passions, desires, hopes, whims or nervous disquiet. The key is to remember that we're always in our presence – we are never so alone that we can feel at ease. With this in mind, we will overcome having passions and ambitions, for this make us vulnerable; we won't have desires or hopes, since desires and hopes are plebeian and inelegant; and we won't have whims or be disquieted, because rash behavior is unpleasant for others to witness, and agitated behaviors is always a vulgarity.
The aristocrat is the one who never forgets that he's never alone, that's why etiquette and decorum are the privilege of aristocrats. Let take him out of his gardens and drawing rooms and place him in our soul and in our consciousness of existing. Let's always treat ourselves with etiquette and decorum, with studied and for-other-people gestures.
Each of us is an entire community, an entire neighborhood of the great Mystery, and we should at least make sure that the life of our neighborhood is distinctive and elegant, that the feasts of our sensations are genteel and restrained, and that the banquets of our thoughts are decorous and dignified. Since other souls may build poor and filthy neighborhoods around us, we should clearly define where our begins and ends, and from the facades of our feelings to the alcoves of our shyness, everything should be noble and serene, sculpted in sobriety, without ostentation.
We should try to find a serene way to realize each sensation. To reduce love to the shadow of a dream of love, a pale and tremulous interval between the crests of two tint, moonlit waves. To turn desire into a useless and innocuous thing, a kind of knowing smile in our soul; to make it into something we never dream of achieving or even expressing. To lull hearted to sleep like a captive snake, and to tell fear to give up all its outer manifestations except for anguish in our eyes, or rather, in our eyes of soul, for only this attitude can be considered aesthetic.”
“Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.”
“Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.”
“Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.”
“Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.”
“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.”
Source: The House In Paris
“Never to my mind had she looked more beautiful. Inevitably so. A woman reaches the height of her beauty – and only at this time can she inspire that intoxication of the soul which is so often talked of and so rarely experienced – when we are sure of her love, but not of her favours.”
Source: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
“Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.”
“Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it's own, & that we are all one Life.”
Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works
“Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.”
“Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.”
“Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy”