N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.”
“Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.”
“Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.”
Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen
“Next to her a calico cat puffed away at a hubble-bubble. Puss’s watch cost more than his vest, and his vest cost more than his boots, and his boots cost more than a house. If you stripped him naked and sold off his costume, you’d walk away with enough money to retire—though if you left him alive you wouldn’t have long to enjoy it. The only thing that could rival Puss’s vanity was his sadism.”
Source: The Builders
“Next to her, in the place where we were born, I was only a decoration, that is, I bore witness to Lila’s merits. Those who had known us from birth attributed to her, to the force of her attraction, the fact that the neighborhood could have on its streets an esteemed person like me.”
Source: The Story of the Lost Child
“Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.”
“Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette”
“Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.”
Source: Night
“Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.”
Source: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
“Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.”
“Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.”
Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“Next to it on the wall was a framed postcard of Monet's berm. I recognized it immediately.
'It used to be mine, but you've owned it far, far longer than I have.' We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now. Squatters, and only squatters, were the true claimants to our lives.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Next to Joel on the beach was Martha. Two years back in time she had been Joel’s bimbo. That’s because Joel was still married at the time, and they were committing adultery.
~ The Last Straw”
Source: Land of the Story Tellers: 24 Stories and 7 Poems
“Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.”
“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Next to love is the desire for love.”
Source: Selected poems
“Next to love, balance is the most important thing.”
“Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.”
“Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.”
Source: Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction
“Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.”
“Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.”
“Next to music beer was best.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.”
“Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
bids me wear them, warm them, until evening
when I'll brush her hair. At six, I place them
round her cool, white throat. All day I think of her,
resting in the Yellow Room, contemplating silk
or taffeta, which gown tonight? She fans herself
whilst I work willingly, my slow heat entering
each pearl. Slack on my neck, her rope.
She's beautiful. I dream about her
in my attic bed; picture her dancing
with tall men, puzzled by my faint, persistent scent
beneath her French perfume, her milky stones.
I dust her shoulders with a rabbit's foot,
watch the soft blush seep through her skin
like an indolent sigh. In her looking-glass
my red lips part as though I want to speak.
Full moon. Her carriage brings her home. I see
her every movement in my head.... Undressing,
taking off her jewels, her slim hand reaching
for the case, slipping naked into bed, the way
she always does.... And I lie here awake,
knowing the pearls are cooling even now
in the room where my mistress sleeps. All night
I feel their absence and I burn.”
“Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh”
“Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.”
“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.”
“Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.”
Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading. By reading that book we may learn what to believe, what to be, and what to do; how to live with comfort, and how to die in peace.” Happy is that man who possesses a Bible! Happier still is he who reads it! Happiest of all is he who not only reads it, but obeys it, and makes it the rule of his faith and practice!”
“Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.”
Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.”
“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”
Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor
“Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.”
“Next to that kid, we all look like onions.”
“Next to the ague, curiosity is the most devilish affliction a body can be stung with. It's the most humanizing thing next to being born and can't be resisted....”
“Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.”
“next to the bed
a couple of lilies
and two cigarettes
smoke like cloud
quiet like loud
sun and fire”
Source: Isabella
“Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.”
“Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.”
Source: Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book I of III
“Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.”
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
“Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.”
“Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.”
“Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.”
“Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.”
Source: Spirit Quest
“Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.”