N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.”
“Never wanna leave my Justice, my home.
So I bring her with me, my baby Lonesome.
Don't matter, Justice is always there,
Always right there, no matter where I go.
My baby Lonesome,
Makin' it so I'm never missin' home.”
Source: Bounty
“Never want something without expecting it”
“Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.”
“Never wanted it to be an imposition,
I am alone & will find my way alone.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would be insane for me to say, "Yeah this is definitely it, I'm never doing anything else." I'm 20 years old. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know anything about life. So I don't know. I may be a train conductor in 10 years. I have no idea. And that's the joy of this all.”
“Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.”
Source: Naught to thirty-three
“Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.”
“Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.”
“Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.”
“Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.”
“Never was a miser a brave soul.”
“Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.”
“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
“Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.”
“Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.”
“Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.”
“Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.”
“Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.”
Source: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems
“Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually, and is therefore one of the great natural designs. When it was found and identified by such men as Adam Smith, who wrote its bible, and Karl Marx, who wrote its obituary too soon, it was already working.”
“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.”
“Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the Son of God...Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin?-take the measure of it from the mediation of Christ, especially his cross.”
“Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“Never was strumpet faire.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Never was the two cultures stand-off more apparent than here. In Gunn’s poem, a new neighbour (an outsider) wants them evicted because of their detrimental effect on property prices. She might well have been an academic: in more than thirty years in the humanities side of universities, the attitude towards those skills which I encountered was mainly one of ignorant, patronizing condescension. Just occasionally a student from the science side would dismantle a car in a campus car park only to be moved on by the authorities, as were Gunn’s auto freaks. Among the younger academics, disdain for this culture verged on contempt because of its supposedly obsolete ‘masculinist’ values. Those same academics were also the ones quick to brand any intense friendship between the men of this ‘masculinist’ culture as repressed homosexuality. In truth, sometimes it might have been, and yet sometimes it almost certainly wasn’t: some of the most loyal and selfless friendships I’ve ever known were between working-class young men who, insofar as anyone can ever be sure of these things, really were straight.”
Source: Desire: A Memoir
“Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.”
Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised
“Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.”
Source: Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation
“Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.”
“never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.”
“Never Waste A Bad Experience”
Source: From Doctor to Healer: The Mountain Lion’s Gift
“Never waste a crisis.”
“Never waste a good crisis.”
“Never waste a good crisis...Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.”
“Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
“Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important.”
“Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.”
Source: Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well
“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!”
“Never waste any opportunity to use those who hate, talk about and gossip about you, for your benefit. Its quite simple to do really, I remember doing so at a church in Marrero, LA wearing a bright yellow construction vest with a dress shirt, slacks and a tie I looked professional and good however many thought I was special and talked about me as they normally would. By doing this I instantly had 150 witnesses and 150 subpoenas I filed for my real estate suit against the city as everyone remembered me wearing a bright yello vest. Long story short I was testing an area in real estate with very vague laws that were open to interpretation and thinking quickly I created an ideal situation that in return favored my outcome by 100%”
“Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.”
“Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.”
“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.”
“Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.”
“Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.
Time waits for no one.
Apologise when you are wrong,
Express your love when you should,
Forgive the ones who wronged you,
And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.”
“Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.”