N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nineteen years are as ages to you when you are nineteen. When you are nineteen, there is no experience to tell you that all things have an end. This aching pain has no end.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming
“Nineteen years since that day. Nineteen whole years! And I’m still looking for you. I will never stop looking for you.
Often you appear when I expect it least. Earlier today I was trapped in some pointless dark thought or other, my body clenched like a metal fist. Then suddenly you were there: a bright autumn leaf cartwheeling over a dull pewter lawn. I uncurled and smelled life, felt dew on my feet, saw shades of green. I tried to grab hold of you, that vivid leaf, cavorting and wriggling and giggling. I tried to take your hand, look straight at you, but like an optical black spot you slid silently sideways, just out of reach.
I will never stop looking for you.”
Source: Ghosted
“Nineteenth-century Aberdeenshire was seething with land hunger and social strife. The interests of the landowners and muckle farmers were at odds with the democratic ideal enshrined in the concept of 'The Poor Man's County', which proclaimed the value of a finely graded rural economy with the emphasis on smaller farms and crofts as the continuing guarantee of economic opportunity and ultimately, therefore, of social justice. But the cottar class was disappearing as landlords evaded Poor Law assessment by demolishing cottages for married workers. Traditional farm touns and hamlets were being destroyed. As leases expired, holdings were thrown together into bigger units yielding high returns on the kind of investment only great capitalists could contemplate. As entry levels into farming climbed, the land was monopolised in fewer and fewer hands.”
Source: Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk in the Parish of Pyketillim, with Glimpses of the Parish Politics about AD 1843
“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record," before dying. Alaska's favorite was playwright Eugene O'Neill: "Born in a hotel room, and--God damn it--died in a hotel room." Even car-accident victims sometimes have time for last words. Princess Diana said, "Oh God. What's happened?" Movie star James Dean said, "They've got to see us," just before slamming his Porsche into another car. I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Nineteenth-century print culture shared with the Protestantism that sparked it a democratizing impulse rooted in the ideology of the priesthood of all believers. In the vastly expanded world of print this impulse led to what one might call a priesthood of all readers, a situation ripe for religious turmoil rooted in interpretive chaos.”
Source: The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first time, the image of a haloed, silvery-haired People, embodying all wisdom, moral purity, and spiritual grandeur.
But that was far away, on bookshelves; it was somewhere else, in the villages and fields at the crossroads of the nineteenth century. The heavens unfolded, the twentieth century came, and those places had long since ceased to exist under Russian skies.”
Source: The First Circle
“Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.”
“Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.”
“Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.”
Source: Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty
“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”
“Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.”
“Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.”
“Ninety-Five percent of the things we worry about in life never actually happen but that's the human brain for you. It can help us do all kinds of wonderful things but can also be an absolute nightmare!”
Source: The Panther In My Kitchen: My Wild Life With Animals
“Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation," he said...”
Source: Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World
“Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!”
“Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.”
“Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.”
“Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.”
“Ninety-nine percent of the time, our myths, stories, and expectations for what grief should feel like come from our minds. Where grief really lives—and where grief needs to be expressed from—is our hearts.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.”
“Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?”
“Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.”
“Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?”
“Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!”
“Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.”
“Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.”
“Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.”
“Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.”
“Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.”
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owing real estate.”
Source: Andrew Carnegie Suyasarithai
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.”
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.”
“Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.”
“Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?”
“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.”
“What causes the other ten percent?” asked Kizzy.
“Natural disasters,” said Nib.”
Source: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.”
“Ninety percent of everything is crap.”
“Ninety percent of everything you believe you can achieve in life you will.”
“Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.”
“Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.”
“Ninety percent of government expenditure goes towards funding of emotions.”
Source: Plotless
“Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.’ – Cherise”
“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”
“Ninety percent of life is just showing up.”
“Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.”
“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”
“Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.”
“Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.”
“Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.”
“Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles. But that can be quite scary. The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself. I enjoy seeing what the chemistry is between the people you might be working with.”