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“Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that”
“Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.”
“Nicholas broke the seal and scanned the contents. He looked up at Marcus with a chuckle. “Why, it appears you may get your wish for perpetual bachelorhood after all. She wants to end your engagement.”
Marcus started from his chair. “The hell she does! What’s possessed her?”
“Perhaps she realizes your extreme reluctance to tie the knot after waiting…what is it? Five years since your betrothal announcement?”
“Six,” Marcus snapped. “But who’s counting.”
“Perhaps Miss Trent?” Nick needled with a quirk of his lips.
- A BREACH OF PROMISE”
“Nicholas' ears twitched as she read. Each word made them tingle.”
Source: Vermin
“Nicholas felt a rueful smile spread across his face. And a curse be on him for it, because now he knew her. She'd shown him her mind, and she'd opened up her heart, and now he knew the taste of her tears. And he was wrecked.”
Source: Passenger
“Nicholas had told himself that it was just sex that he wanted, but it was the moments before and after that he really craved: watching her comb out the tangles that he’d put in her hair by pulling on it, the feel of her fingers against his chest when she unbuttoned his shirt.
These little moments of forced tenderness were the closest he’d ever been to love.”
Source: Sine Qua Non
“Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our perspective. "No, we wouldn't do this. Yes, we would do that. That's not realistic." So, I feel like Center Stage did well in that respect.”
“Nicholas: I know you, brother. You've been threatened with matrimonial pursuits before. Why are you really here?
William: I received an invitation.
Nicholas: Not from me you didn't.
William: Of course not from you, brother. Parliament would go up in flames before I receive a social invitation from you.”
Source: The Education of Mrs. Brimley
“Nicholas ignored Eugene’s delicate sensibilities in order to focus on Seiji’s plate. Seiji’s breakfast remained disappointing. “Next time you should get some more bacon. I’ll eat it if you don’t want it.”
“I don’t eat more than a single slice of bacon and you shouldn’t, either,” Seiji told him. “Excessive bacon will make your arteries clog and slow your progress on the piste. Your extraordinary speed is the only thing you have going for you.”
Nicholas preened. “Oh, my extraordinary speed, is it?”
“Shut up,” said Seiji.
“Quit gushing over me, ’m getting all bashful,” said Nicholas.”
Source: Striking Distance
“Nicholas Lepinski from Ramsey New Jersey is a competent, safety conscience and polite licensed plumber, who is committed to his trade, profession and his customers. He spent 4 years as a Lance corporal in the United States marine corps, after that worked in sales and volunteered with various charities as well as in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. He also love to work out, run, volunteer, enjoy the outdoors, and spend time with his daughter and wife.”
“Nicholas Mitsakos is Chairman and CEO of Arcadia Digital Holdings.”
“Nicholas never mastered the technique of forceful, efficient management of subordinates. He hated scenes and found it impossible to sternly criticize or dismiss a man to his face. If something was wrong, he preferred to give a minister a friendly reception, comment gently and shake hands warmly. Occasionally, after such an interview, the minister would return to his office, well pleased with himself, only to receive in the morning mail a letter regretfully asking for his resignation. Not unnaturally, these men complained that they had been deceived.”
Source: Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
“Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.”
“Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's an emphasis on being a unique person. Screw you if you don't like it. But the problem is, they're all the same.”
“Nicholas slept well till six next morning; dreamed of home, or of what was home once—no matter which, for things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be, thank God! in sleep”
“Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011
“Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.”
Source: In the Skin of a Lion: Picador Classic
“Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo”
Source: The Renegade Hunter: An Argeneau Vampire Novel
“Nicholas walked back to their dormitory, bumping shoulders with Seiji companionably in the way nobody else ever did, but he was still much quieter than usual. It was worrying.”
Source: Striking Distance
“Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to play in with her little stuffed animals. There was pain and crushing disillusionment and betrayal.”
“Nicholas was still afraid; desperately so.
But the only thing more terrifying than the thought of leaving the Library was the thought of staying.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Nicholas wrestled a grocery cart free from the queue and pushed it into the produce section at Publix. “They make really good subs here,” I said.”
Source: The Shark Club
“Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an argument so that everybody can wade in with an opinion without having to undergo the inconvenience of having to read the book itself. The more you can condense it, the better.”
“Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz,
Die das Leben vergänglich zieren!
Wer besitzt, der lerne verlieren,
Wer im Glück ist, der lerne den Schmerz!”
Source: Die Braut von Messina
“Nicht die Kinder bloß, speist man mit Märchen ab.”
Source: Nathan der Weise
“Nicht ein einziges Mal hat in den letzten 200 Jahren ein arabisches Land ein westliches Land angegriffen. Angreifer waren immer die europäischen Großmächte. Millionen arabische Zivilisten wurden dabei brutal ermordet. Das Gerede von der Grausamkeit der Muslime stellt alle Fakten auf den Kopf. Der Westen war viel grausamer als sie.”
Source: Inside IS - 10 Tage im 'Islamischen Staat'
“Nicht einmal Sprachlehrer kann ich sein, nur Geistesgeschichte vortragen und nur in deutscher Sprache, in völlig deutschem Sinn. Ich muss hier leben und hier sterben.”
Source: Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten Das Jahr 1942
“Nicht immer brauchst du Zellen, Gitter oder Stacheldraht, um Menschen gefangen zu halten. Meistens tut es auch Angst.”
Source: Wolfswechsel
“Nicht jeder, der ein Bücherregal hat, ist auch gleich ein Bibliomant.”
Source: Die Seiten der Welt
“Nicht Mord. Nicht Diebstahl, Raub oder nächtlicher Einbruch – auch Meineid nicht. Denn das alles sind ja Dinge, die man meist Leuten antut, die man haßt oder die einem gleichgültig sind und einen nichts angehen. […] Das Infamste von allem – das ist, wenn der Freund das Vertrauen des Freundes missbraucht.”
Source: John Gabriel Borkman
“Nicht seine Lautstärke mach jemanden zum Fanatiker, sondern vor allem seine Toleranz beziehungsweise sein Mangel an Toleranz gegenüber den Stimmen Andersdenkender.”
Source: Liebe Fanatiker: Drei Plädoyers
“Nicht um meine Sprache zu verlernen, lerne ich andere Sprachen, sondern ich gehe bloß durch fremde Gärten, um für meine Sprache Blumen zu holen.”
“Nicht von der Knospe träumt, nicht an die Rose
gedenkt der Tau:
Das Thema seines eigenen Zerfließens
bedenkt der Tau.”
“Nicht zu wissen, was ich genau will, heißt allerdings nicht, dass ich zu etwas Langweiligem gezwungen werden möchte, von dem alle denken, es wäre gut für mich. Damit meinen sie doch nur, dass es sicher und langweilig ist und nicht schlecht. Aber Sicherheit interessiert mich nicht.”
Source: Confusion
“Nichts ergab einen Sinn, ausser seiner eigenen Verwirrung. Zumindest konnte er das begreifen, denn sobald man das Verständnis für die eigene Verwirrung verliert, ist man wirklich verloren.”
Source: Wir Die Tragischen Wenigen
“Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.”
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“Nichts ist befreiender als selbstgewählte Einsamkeit. (Alfred van Cleef nach J. Schalansky)”
“Nichts ist besser als ein guter Freund, außer ein Freund mit Schokolade.”
“Nichts ist ewig, Balbulus - und Worten kann nichts Besseres passieren, als von einem Spielmann gesungen zu werden! Ja, sicher, sie verändern sich dadurch, werden jedes Mal auf etwas andere Weise gesungen, aber ist das nicht wunderbar? Eine Geschichte, die stets ein anderes Kleid trägt, wenn man sie wiederhört - was gibt es Besseres? Eine Geschichte, die wächst und Blüten treibt wie ein lebendiges Ding!”
Source: Inkspell
“Nichts ist so vergänglich wie ein Gedanke.”
Source: Die Seiten der Welt
“Nichts ist so wichtig wie die Hoffnung auf eine bessere Zukunft, und nichts transportiert diese wichtige Emotion besser als Bildung.”
Source: Die große Aufstiegslüge
“Nichts kommt von selbst. Und nur wenig ist von Dauer. Darum — besinnt Euch auf Eure Kraft und darauf, dass jede Zeit eigene Antworten will und man auf ihrer Höhe zu sein hat, wenn Gutes bewirkt werden soll.“
("Nothing happens automatically. And only few things last. Therefore — be mindful of your strength, and of the fact that every era wants its own answers, and you have to be up to its speed in order to be able to do good.")
Message to the Socialist International Congress in Berlin, September 15, 1992”
“Nichts lieben die Deutschen so von ganzem Herzen wie die Oper. Sie werden durch Gewohnheit und Erziehung dahin geleitet. Auch wir Amerikaner können es ohne Zweifel eines Tages noch zu solcher Liebe bringen. Bis jetzt findet aber vielleicht unter fünfzig Besuchern der Oper einer wirklich Gefallen daran; von den übrigen neunundvierzig gehen viele, glaube ich, hin, weil sie sich daran gewöhnen möchten, und die andern, um mit Sachkenntnis davon reden zu können. Letztere summen gewöhnlich die Melodien vor sich hin, während sie auf der Bühne gesungen werden, um ihren Nachbarn zu zeigen, daß sie nicht zum erstenmal in der Oper sind. Sie verdienten dafür gehängt zu werden.”
Source: Meistererzählungen
“Nichts. Nichts hatte Sinn gemacht. Nicht vor einem Jahr, als es begonnen hatte, als wir begonnen hatten, als wir etwas waren, und als das, was wir hätten sein können. Monatelange Stille folgte darauf hin und ich sagte mir immer, immer und immer wieder, dass es die richtige Entscheidung war.
Die Endgültigkeit hatte etwas Befreiendes – jedenfalls redete ich mir das ein. Ich bin gut darin, mir etwas einzureden, mir etwas vorzuspielen, mich selbst zu belügen. Denn wenn man die Lüge lange genug lebt, dann wird sie irgendwann wahr.”
Source: Wanderherzen
“Nichts verscheuchte böse Träume schneller als das Rascheln von bedrucktem Papier.”
Source: Tintenherz [1-4]
“Nichts war mehr übrig von der taffen, mutigen Kriegsgöttin, die ich gerade in ihr gesehen hatte. Vor mir war lediglich eine Frau, deren Herz ich schneller pochen ließ. Jedoch war dies nichts im Vergleich zu meinem Herzen und genau, das war das Schöne daran.”
“Nichts, was in diesem Leben die mühe lohnt, ist einfach, Daniel.”
“Nichts überrascht und erschreckt mehr als das, was man schon weiß.”
“Nici o persoană și nici o relație nu-ți va satisface toate nevoile. Nu toți prietenii îți pot oferi siguranță sau sprijin în fiecare zi. Nu toată lumea va putea sau va dori să fie alături de tine așa cum sau când ai tu nevoie să o facă. Și acesta este motivul pentru care e bine să faci neîncetat loc la masă, să rămâi deschis pentru a aduna și alți prieteni. Nu se va întâmpla niciodată să nu ai nevoie de ei și niciodată nu vei înceta să înveți de la ei.”
Source: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“Nici o ştire interesantă. Totul era un turn de iluzii, din cărămizi iluzorii şi găunoase. Dacă viaţa ar fi alcătuită numai din lucruri importante, ar fi ca o casă periculoasă de sticlă, greu de manuit. Dar viaţa de toate zilele era întocmai ca titlurile din ziare. Cunoscand lipsa de însemnătate a existenţei, toată lumea aşază centrul compasului în propria-i casă.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes