N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“New girl,” says Piper Morello now, Monday morning in the common hall with her sabre slivering the air into jagged little pieces. “Where’d you come from?”
“Hell,” I say before I can stop myself.”
Source: Foul Is Fair
“New gods arise when they are needed.”
“New gods vanquish the altars of the old, so that they can reign in their full brilliance… This God of yours claims to be the protector of all sufferers yet brings demise to the cultures where He sets foot. He conquers just like all invaders do. Ideological invasion is often far more destructive than actual, physical one.”
Source: Notes of Oisin: From an Irish Monk to a Skaldic Poet
“New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.”
“New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”
Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel
“New habits can be launched.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.”
Source: Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day
“New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover," Jake said.
Delaney stared at him for a beat. In a way, he was right. She was breaking up with Sam. He just didn't know it.”
Source: Anything for You
“New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.”
“New Hampshire - is that still a state?”
Source: Granite Fizz: The Untold Story of Spring Water and Flavored Tonic in New Hampshire
“New happiness too must be learned to bear.”
“New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.”
“New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.”
“New honors come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold
But with the aid of use.”
Source: Macbeth
“New hope, new adventure.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“New ideas always set my nose to twitching. - The Malwatch”
“New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.”
“New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.”
“New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.”
“New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.”
Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
“New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.”
“New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.”
“New ideas coming and leaving your mind is what’s going to help you build a successful business. Focusing only on the idea that you’ve started will help you from giving up way too early.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.”
“New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that”
“New ideas must use old buildings”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them”
“New ideas often need old buildings.”
“New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!”
“New ideas require new structures.”
“New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!”
“New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.”
“New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.”
Source: Lisette Model
“New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.”
Source: Lisette Model
“New immigration plan is about legal education. It allows educated people who want to become Americans to stay and become Americans. It was nothing but common sense. It went over the heads of the media because their prejudicial bias did not permit them to even understand this was about legal immigration.”
“New inadequate gestures of suffering Chimeric thing”
Source: Brute: Poems
“New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.”
“New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.”
Source: Inspiration from the Top
“New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.”
“New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.”
“New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.”
“New iPod. It looks like an iPhone but it can't make phone calls. So its really just an iPhone.”
“New is a word for fools in towns who think
Style upon style in dress and thought at last
Must get somewhere.”
Source: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
“New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.”
“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.”
“New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.”
“New Jersey gives us glue.”
“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak.”