N Quotes
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“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“No artist has painted
A true portrait of Lenin
Ages to come will complete
Lenin's unfinished portrait.
Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of his lines about Lenin?”
Source: Forever Flowing
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.”
“No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.”
“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
“No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.”
Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
“No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.”
Source: Francis Bacon
“No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“No artist tolerates reality.”
“No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.”
“No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.”
“No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !”
Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
“No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.”
“No arts, no letters - no society.”
“No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.”
Source: Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
“No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.”
Source: Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture
“No, Ashlynn. I’ll taste you. I’ll have you. I’ll ruin you for all other men. Now stay still and let me hear you moan my name long into the night.”
Source: Power and Possession
“No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.”
Source: Sister of My Heart
“No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.”
“No Assertions Can Be Made of God’s Essence
Who is capable of asserting of the Primal Cause that it is incorporeal or corporeal, or that it possesses quality or is qualityless, or, in general, who could make a firm statement concerning his essence or quality or state or movement? He alone will make dogmatic assertions regarding himself, since he alone has unerringly precise knowledge of his own nature.”
“No asshole would stop Harley Wright's epic quest for pussy. He would fight every bum in Manhattan for a fine piece of ass like Sorcha!”
Source: Longinus The Vampire: Redemption
“No assimilation, no America.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“No athlete works harder than Floyd Mayweather.”
“No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.”
Source: The Whirl
“No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.”
“No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.”
Source: If at Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny
“No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.”
Source: The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
“No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.”
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.”
“No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul”
“No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul”
“No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart.
The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by suggesting, for example, that Pharaoh has already demonstrated his recalcitrance, so Yahweh merely helps the process along, or that he is doing what Pharaoh would have done on his own anyway. Rather, 9:12 is a striking reminder of what God has been trying to teach Moses and Israel since the beginning of the Exodus episode: He is in complete control. However Pharaoh might have reacted is given the chance is not brought into the discussion. He is not even given that chance. Yahweh hardens his heart. It is best to allow the tension of the text to remain.”
Source: Exodus
“No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and the atemporal, of being and becoming. And no subject conforms this paradoical conjuction more starkly than the origin of the universe.”
“No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.”
Source: Psalm LXIV-Malachi
“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short”
Source: The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting
“No audience likes a writer's opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.”
“No Aussie would wear long white socks like that.”
Source: Viktoria
“No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.”
“No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.”
“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.”
“No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.”
“No author ever spar'd a brother.”
Source: Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author
“No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.”
Source: Lectures on Russian Literature
“No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano.”
“No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.”
Source: Novels
“No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.”
“No awards and no appreciations shall match when your wife is on your side.”
“No azuláceo, no verdume, no telúrico dos teus olhos eu avanço a passos comedidos com medo de desmanchar alguma flor silvestre.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto