N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.”
Source: Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love
“No act of kindness is wasted.”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“No act of love is ever wasted.”
“No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.”
“No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.”
“No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.”
“No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.”
“No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.”
“No action has any particular merit of its own. It is people who give them one.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.”
“No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.”
Source: The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda
“No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.”
“No action is without its side effects.”
“No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.”
“No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting”
Source: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
“No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.”
“No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.”
Source: The Tempting of America
“No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it”
“No actor in the world started off at the top.”
“No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.”
“No acts are random or wasted.”
“No administration in recent times has been able to tackle the needs of our veterans. On that, I do want to see Donald Trump successful. But in terms of his travel ban and immigration policy, I don't want to see him successful.”
“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
Source: Moab is My Washpot
“No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.”
“No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.”
“No adult is ever too far from a fart.”
“No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.”
“No adultery is bloodless.”
Source: The City and the House: A Novel
“No adults, no rules, no protection.”
Source: Seventeen
“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
Source: 1984
“No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.”
“No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
“No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.”
“No adversity should be deep enough to undercut your gratitude.”
Source: The Kodach Secrets: The Book of Real-Life Transformation
“No advertence will aid us unless and until we're prepared to see our own imperfections.
To see and to accept our own shortfalls, we need honesty and intrepidity.”
“No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others. No rational society, no co-operation, no agreement, no understanding, no discussion are possible among men who propose to substitute guns for rational persuasion.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.”
“No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.”
“No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.”
“No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.”
“No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.”
“No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.”
“No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.”
“No age of life is inglorious. Youth has its merits, but living to a ripe old age is the true statement of value. Aging is the road that we take to discern our character. Fame and fortune can elude us, but character is immortal. We must encounter a sufficient variety of experiences including both failures and accomplishments in order to gain nobility of character.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .”
Source: Four Plays by Bernard Shaw
“No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!”