N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.”
“No black or white America-just United States of America.”
“No black person married to a white person can speak for me!”
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”
“No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.”
“No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.”
Source: A friend from England
“No blame, no hate - why no communication?”
Source: From Dead to Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.”
Source: Being Peace
“No blanks. The universe makes love to my mind and gives birth to poetry every single time.”
“No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.”
Source: The Missile Crisis
“No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.”
Source: Songs Before Sunrise
“No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)
“No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.”
“No blessing lasts forever.”
Source: The complete Roman drama: all the extant comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the tragedies of Seneca, in a variety of translations
“No blood at all. I could hear that phrase repeat itself in my head, louder each time. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood. No splatter. NO BLOOD AT ALL. Why hadn't I thought of that?”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!”
“No blood, no foul”
Source: Twilight
“No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.”
Source: The City and Man
“No, blowing up cities doesn't work, not in the long term. You've got to find something that the people in charge aren't willing to give up. A price they aren't willing to pay.
Which leads us to Talis's first rule for stopping wars: make it personal.”
Source: The Scorpion Rules
“No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.”
Source: Vincent Van Gogh: painted with words : the letters to Émile Bernard
“No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.”
Source: On Writing
“No boat moves an inch if a sailor has no will to paddle”
“No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom, or estate a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health; for in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate and manners corrupt.”
Source: The Essays
“No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner”
Source: KISS Life "Life is what you make it"
“No body is worth more than your body”
“No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.”
Source: Ali's smile
“No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.”
Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard
“No body told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!”
“No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.”
“No bond, relationship, or person matters for transparent justice; if it does, fair justice becomes impossible.”
“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
Source: The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
“No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.”
“No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it”
Source: After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings
“No book can sell as the author.”
Source: The New Land
“No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.”
“No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.”
Source: The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
“No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems”
Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.”
Source: The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure
“No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.”
Source: Letters by John Quincy Adams, on the Study of the Bible
“No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.”
“No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.”
“No book is dangerous in and of itself, you know. But historically, reading a book in the wrong way has led to terrible consequences.”
Source: Meddling Kids
“No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great philosophers
“No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.”
Source: Honey for a Child's Heart
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
“No book on earth can claim your mind, no single truth defines humankind – no crown, no creed, no sacred shrine outweighs a heart that dares to shine.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth