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“No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.”
Source: The Spiritual Life
“No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
“No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.”
“No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that gives him more benefits than any other system yet devised by man. Loyalty leaves room to change the system when need be, but only under the ground rules by which we Americans live.”
“No city could be more beautiful than Charleston during the brief reign of azaleas, no city on earth.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
“No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.”
“No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.”
“No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.”
“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
“No civil conversation can occur while you are holding an ax.”
“No civil rulers are to be obeyed when they enjoin things that are inconsistent with the commands of God. All such disobedience is lawful and glorious.”
“No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.”
“No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during the last 900 years. It is impossible to explain this fact in purely economic terms by a materialistic interpretation of history. The principle of change has been a spiritual one and the progress of Western civilisation is intimately related to the dynamic ethos of Western Christianity, which has gradually made Western man conscious of his moral responsibility and his duty to change the world.”
“No civilization can exist part free and part slave.
..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been that way. There has always been a division of man. There has always been the conqueror and conquered-the master and slave-the ruler and the ruled-the oppressor and the oppressed. There has never been content nor unity. There has been only discontent and disunity.”
“No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change.”
“No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.”
“No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.”
“No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.”
“No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.”
“No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.”
Source: Civilization: The West and the Rest
“No civilized being lived in North Dakota.”
Source: Counterfeit Cowgirl
“No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.”
“No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.”
“No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.”
Source: Essays, lectures, addresses
“No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.”
“No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.”
Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life
“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
“No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.”
Source: A view of the Constitution of the United States of America
“No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.”
Source: The Lincoln treasury
“No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.”
Source: The Lincoln treasury
“No clock is more regular than the belly.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel
“No cloud above, no earth below, A universe of sky and snow.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.”
“No clouds are in the morning sky,
The vapors hug the stream,
Who says that life and love can die
In all this northern gleam?
At every turn the maples burn,
The quail is whistling free,
The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs
Are dropping for you and me.
Ho! hillyho! heigh O!
Hillyho!
In the clear October morning.”
“No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.”
“No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable”
Source: Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)
“No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.”
“No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.”
“No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.”
“No coach is more important than the Team”
“No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.”
“No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.”
Source: Last Ditch: Roderick Alleyn #29
“No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].”
“No coffee?
Sorry, the mountain-top Starbucks is fresh out.”
Source: Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets
“No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.”
“No collection without compensation.”
“No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white.”