N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.”
“No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.”
Source: Animal farm: a fairy story
“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
Source: The wind in the willows
“No anti-slavery crusader aimed for a partial solution or settled on a regimen of interim targets. The fight to end slavery was a fight to end 100 percent of slavery for all time. In just that way, we can't settle for partial measures if we are going to win the war for our world. We need to fight for 100 percent sustainability, now.”
Source: Save the Humans
“No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.”
“No apologies, no regrets.”
“No apology is equal to the task set before it.”
Source: Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust
“No app will ever replace a parent’s voice, a shared laugh, or the quiet comfort of presence.”
Source: Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience
“No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.”
“No aprendas nada, y el próximo mundo será igual que éste, con las mismas limitaciones y pesos de plomo que superar”
Source: Juan Salvador Gaviota
“No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.”
“No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.”
Source: Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue
“No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.”
Source: The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application, and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science
“No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.”
“No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.”
“No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.”
“No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
Source: On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward”
Source: Aesop's fables
“No, Arin. Sit down. Other wise you'll make an ass out of yourself, and that role is mine.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.”
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
“no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect.”
“No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.”
Source: The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; with Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice
“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.”
Source: Lectures on Architecture and Painting
“No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.”
Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.”
Source: Ripening: Selected Work
“No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
Source: The Piano Teacher
“No art comes from the conscious mind.”
“No art ever came out of not risking your neck.”
Source: Stories, Essays, and Memoir
“No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“No art goes unmediated by other art.”
“No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.”
“No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.”
Source: Degas As a Collector
“No art is possible without a dance with death.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art!”
“No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.”
“No art is worth endangering your health and well-being.”
Source: Nancy: A Comic Collection
“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”
“No art should be fashionable.”
“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.”
“No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.”
Source: Blix. Moran of the Lady Letty. Essays on authorship
“No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.”
Source: The use and abuse of books
“No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.”
“No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.”
“No artist can create without an inspiration; no man can work so without a muse. So it is with your prince. Everything I've ever done, every piece you've ever heard, every tune I've ever scribbled in the wee hours as a Mad Prince does, they are all because of one woman, who owns me heart and soul."
This was met with awwws and cries about the power of love.
Eric looked out at the crowd, but his eyes didn't find hers. It didn't matter. Ariel knew he was speaking to her, and she felt her eyes moisten.”
Source: Part of Your World