N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.”
“Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.”
“Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, “Promise?”
Well, that genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no stuffing her back in.”
Source: Glass Girl
“Next to the gallettes with their savory fillings, and even the banana-Nutella crêpe with its seductive chocolaty drizzle across the top, and especially next to whatever monstrosity Henry had ordered topped with three scoops of vanilla ice cream, the crêpe au sucre Rosie had selected certainly looked plain. It was a slim triangle dusted with sugar, but Rosie swore the sugar was sparkling in the dim light of the restaurant. She cut a tiny triangle off the tip and took a bite. Now this, this was everything. It was simple, but in the way that reminded Rosie that sometimes the simplest things were the best. The crêpe was golden and buttery and the caramelized sugar crunchy before it dissolved instantly, melting on Rosie's tongue. It couldn't be anything more than butter, sugar, flour, and milk. And yet... those simple ingredients were transformed into something transcendent. And that, Rosie thought, was exactly the power of cooking.”
Source: Love à la Mode
“Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.”
“Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.”
“Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.”
“Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.”
“Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.”
Source: Under dispute
“Next to the love between man and his Creator,
The love of one man and one woman,
Is the loftiest and the most illusive ideal,
That has been set before the world.
A perfect marriage is like a pure heart:
Those who have it are fit to see God.”
“Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.”
Source: Gypsies of Spain
“Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.”
Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan
“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”
“Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.”
“Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .”
Source: Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils
“Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.”
Source: Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils
“Next to the right to create, the right to criticize is the richest gift that liberty of thought and speech can offer. Living as you do in freedom, in that spiritual open where you were born and bred, you may be apt to regard stories of prison life coming from remote lands as exaggerated accounts spread by panting fugitives. That a country exists where for almost a quarter of a century literature has been limited to illustrating the advertisements of a firm of slave-traders is hardly credible to people for whom writing and reading books is synonymous with having and voicing individual opinions. But if you do not believe in the existence of such conditions, you may at least imagine them, and once you have imagined them you will realize with new purity and pride the value of real books written by free men for free men to read.”
“Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.”
Source: American Language Supplement 2
“Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.”
Source: The Unfinished Country
“Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.”
“Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.”
“Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.”
Source: The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: containing two hundred sermons and discourses ... To which are annexed prayers composed by him for his own use; a discourse to his servants before the Sacrament; and a form of prayer composed by him, for the use of King William ... together with tables to the whole ...
“Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.”
“Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.”
“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.”
“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.”
Source: Luther's Works: Liturgy and hymns
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
“Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.”
“Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.”
“Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?”
Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.”
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.”
“Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.”
“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”
“Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'”
“Next up is Chef Ashna Raje and her partner, the greatest striker in the history of football, Frederico Silva."
The audience went wild, their share of applause noticeably louder than everyone else's. DJ made a production out of waiting for the applause to die down without seeming like a hack. The network had done well with their choice of host. The man had a deep, sophisticated voice and a London accent that moved comfortably between posh and working class. He grinned at Rico with the friendliness of someone Rico had not been an arse to just recently.
The person who had provoked him enough to make an arse out of himself turned to him and seemed to read exactly how guilty he was feeling. That of all things seemed to loosen out the knots she'd been tied up in since they had arrived at the studio today.
"Bonus points for calling it football, mate," Rico said, and the crowd booed playfully.
"And by football they both mean soccer," Ashna added. "This is America, guys!"
The crowd went nuts.”
Source: Recipe for Persuasion
“Next up is the Elb of Fire and Fusion, it phases in front of them. Its entrance is impressive, for under its translucent shell an orbital symmetry, as one by one it mimics the atoms of the heavy elements. A surreal animation. “” The set changes to a view from the international space-station, the entire crew looking through the window at the beauty of Gaia, but something amiss can be seen in their expressions. A grave seriousness that something is aloof, foreboding. “” From the space-station the planet Earth is viewed. A serene blue marble, peaceful, passive, when one of the crew points to a white spot, then another. More follow, leading to a chain-reaction, as the blue planet appears to twinkle in space. The whiteness hails the day of reckoning. “”
Source: Zara Hanson & The Mystery of the Painted Symbol
“Next, we moved to dessert with a bite of berry torte, passed out in shallow bowls meant for sauce.
"There are over fifteen individually prepared components in this," Matthew started.
"And you must know them all!" Jake added.
Matthew cleared his throat. "The important ones are: berry cake, chia seed brittle, mint-honey glaze, preserved orange peel, burnt sugar whipped cream, almond tuiles, almond-Riesling gelato, and rose meringues. Then everything is set ablaze with bay leaf-infused brandy.”
Source: Food Whore
“Next week, and a splendid ball. One of those balls where one always enjoys oneself.
Why, are there balls where one always enjoys oneself? Anna said, with tender irony.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Next week, I should be back to my old self."
"I hope not." Dallas nudged me with his shoulder.”
Source: From Fame to Shame
“Next week John Boehner will be sitting behind Barack Obama at the State of the Union address. I think Obama should purposely try to embarrass him by telling the story of 'Old Yeller.' The state of our Union is strong, but not so good for one special dog.'”
“Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.”
“Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in Japan]. Over 40 different activities - and what is more, in different cities.”
“Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.”
“Next year I want to be better than this season, and the year after that, better than the year before.”
“Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.”
“Next year it would have been 20 years
and you are wastefully dead
who might have made the leap
we talked, too late, of making
which I live now
not as a leap
but a succession of brief, amazing movements
each one making possible the next”
Source: Diving Into the Wreck