N Quotes
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“No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent”
“No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.”
Source: Guide for the perplexed
“No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.”
“No formal criterion or 'definition' should obscure the fact that the early state did not emerge full blown and in a clear-cut form. Its formation was a process rather than a one-time event, which regularly took generations and centuries to unfold.”
Source: War in Human Civilization
“No formar parte del resto de su vida me hacía sentir que poseía un libro indescifrable. No me bastaba su cuidada encuadernación en piel, su tipografía atractiva, sus ilustraciones en miniatura. ¡Quería leer a Laura!”
Source: Conferencia sobre la lluvia
“No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.”
“No formulation of the reality of experience is completely true. Once we acknowledge this, we relieve words of the impossible burden of trying to express the nature of experience and, as a result, leave them free to be spoken and heard in playful and creative ways that evoke Reality itself without trying to frame or grasp it.”
Source: The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience
“No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.”
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.”
Source: In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
“No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.”
“No foundation can be laid other than that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus. That’s the foundation of the creation side, but what’s the foundation of the evolution side? The foundation of evolution is made-up stuff. Both sides use the same physical evidence but each side uses a different foundation to reach conclusions about what the physical evidence means.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.”
Source: Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era
“No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“No fox is foxier than man!”
“No, Francis, I got it from the shop like a normal person.”
Source: Nevermoor / Wundersmith / Hollowpox
“No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.”
Source: The Papers of James Madison: Purchased by Order of the Congress, Being His Correspondence and Reports of Debates During the Congress of the Confederation, and His Reports of Debates in the Federal Convention; Now Published from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State
“No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.”
“No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.”
Source: Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life
“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.”
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
“No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.”
“No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.”
Source: The Writings of John Dickinson
“No free will of the creature can resist the will of God”
Source: The doctrine of absolute predestination stated and asserted
“No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.”
“No freedom of choice? No love.”
“No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.”
“No, freedom was not what I wanted. Only a way out; right or left, or in any direction; I made no other demand; even should the way out prove to be an illusion; the demand was a small one, the disappointment could be no bigger. To get out somewhere, to get out! Only not to stay motionless with raised arms, crushed against a wooden wall.”
Source: A Report for an Academy
“No freedom without renunciation.”
“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
“No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.”
“No friend can love you like your shadow.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”
“No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.”
Source: World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves
“No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.”
“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
Source: Love in Many Masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble from Mrs. Behn's Rover [i.e. from the first part].
“No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.”
Source: Friendship
“No friendship is an accident.”
Source: Heart of the West
“No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“No friendship or relation lives with a forever badge,
one may come and leave tomorrow.
So, love and understand as much as possible, while you still have the opportunity. Never deduce that it shall live forever without you having to put in the effort.”
Source: DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?
“No frogs can sing as well as Polish ones.”
Source: Pan Tadeusz
“No, from the time when one is sick to death, One is alone, and he dies more alone.
Friends make pretense of following to the grave,
But before one is in it, their minds are turned
And making the best of their way back to life
And living people, and things they understand.”
Source: Home Burial
“No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.”
“No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.”
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
“No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.”
“No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop”
Source: Selected Writings
“No fue difícil terminar esa relación porque siempre la persona que toma la decisión hace el duelo mientras sigue abrazada a la otra los domingos viendo Netflix.”
Source: Coger y comer sin culpa
“No fue el dolor, sino lo injusto del asunto, lo que atontó a Peter. Lo dejó impotente. Sólo podía mirar, horrorizado. Todos los niños reaccionan así la primera vez que los tratan con injusticia. A lo único que piensan que tienen derecho cuando se le acercan a uno de buena fe es a un trato justo. Después de que uno haya sido injusto con ellos seguirán queriéndolo, pero nunca volverán a ser los mismos.”
Source: Peter Pan
“No fue hasta bastante tiempo después cuando descubrí que las pesadillas no eran por culpa de su muerte, sino porque yo no había aceptado que algún día me tocará a mí. Mi subconsciente no tenía miedo por haber perdido a Matt, sino por la idea de que algún día se perderá a sí mismo y dejaré de existir.”
Source: Aquí y ahora
“No fue hasta entonces cuando me di cuenta de que la menstruación era eso: la tierra, la humanidad y la vida”
Source: Mary John
“No fuhrer can stand the fury of the people, no king is nobler than the just commoner.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop