N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.”
“Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.”
Source: Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush
“Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.”
“Nine times out of ten, failure is resorting to Plan B when Plan A gets too risky, too costly, or too difficult. That's why most people are living their Plan B. They didn't burn the ships. Plan A people don't have a Plan B...
There are moments in life when we need to burn the ships to our past. We do so by making a defining decision that will eliminate the possibility of sailing back to the old world we left behind. You burn the ships named Past Failure and Past Success. You burn the ship named Bad Habit. You burn the ship named Regret. You burn the ship named Guilt. You burn the ship named My Old Way of Life.”
Source: All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
“Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.”
“Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.”
“Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.”
“Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.”
“Nine times out of ten, when a customer walks into the Punchbowl and Pineapple, I can guess what will tempt them. It is the confectioner's principal art, anticipating wants and needs--- and people betray their desires in countless small ways. For a young lady taut with nerves, dressed to make a house call, I suggest a pretty basket of French macaroons to impress her friends. For a young buck in the first flush of love, seeking a gift for his mistress, I propose a petits puits d'amour (the name and oval shape might make him smile, though I act oblivious to any indelicate connotations). For an older gentleman--- picture one crimson from hunting and port--- a rich plum cake spiced with cinnamon and mace. For a widow in mittens, a box of scented violet wafers--- or if she is bent with the rheumatism, bergamot chips. For a little boy with a cough, I prescribe a guimauve: a soft cake of honey whipped with the sap of the marsh mallow plant. And for his governess, a sweet syllabub, to be eaten at one of my tables, while she ponders how life's misfortunes brought her here.”
Source: The Art of a Lie
“Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.”
“Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.”
“Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.”
“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
Source: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]
“Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.”
“Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.”
“Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive
I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive”
“Nine-year-old me dressed as a homeless person, but I had a badge, fake mustache, and aviators. I was HoboCop, naturally.”
Source: DELETE2
“Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.”
“Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.”
“Nine years hadn’t been long enough to forget the way she’d looked at him that final day, her eyes blazing with a fury that still burned in his memory.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“Nine years of dedicated service, of going above and beyond, of leaving his business at a moment’s notice when the alarm sounded... and it meant nothing.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.”
“Nine years of nurtured anger tangled with this thing. This gripping attraction and wistfulness—a deep missing of this woman from my life.”
Source: Licks
“Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.”
“Nine, now eight. Are the rest of you out there?”
Source: The Lorien Legacies: Books 2-5 Collection: The Power of Six, The Rise of Nine, The Fall of Five, The Revenge of Seven
“Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.”
“Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.”
Source: Reach for the Summit
“Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.”
“Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.”
“Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.”
Source: High Tide in Tucson
“Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.”
Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
“Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.”
Source: Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)
“Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.”
Source: The Problem of China
“Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.”
Source: Marriage and Morals
“Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.”
Source: Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)
“Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders... The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers who will receive their bread from their employers. Will such men be the secure and faithful guardians of liberty? Give the votes to people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich who will be able to buy them.”
“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”
“Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.”
“Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.”
“Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning of the "digital turn" that would, in fits and starts, transform music culture . . . .”
Source: Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
“Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.”
“Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.”
“Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make the world safe enough that nineteen people wouldn't want to do harm to us. So it seems like we have to rethink a strategy that is less military-based.”
“Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.”
“Nineteen police officers watched over two teachers and nineteen young children bleeding to death.”
“Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.”