N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan”
Source: BioShock: Rapture
“No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work everything else goes to waste.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“No going back now,' Cassian said to Rhys, gesturing to his wings.
Rhys slid his hands into his pockets. 'I figure it's time for the world to know who really has the largest wingspan.'
Cassian laughed, and even Azriel smiled.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“No golfer can ever become too good to practice.”
Source: Ladies' Golf
“No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.”
“No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.”
“No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.”
“No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.”
Source: The Power of Truth
“No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.”
Source: Deadeye Dick
“No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things”
“No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.”
“No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...
“No good could come from a nicotine induced introspection save for the prospect of an early death, something he was not entirely opposed to. In fact, the ambivalence he held for such definitive states, alive and dead, even surprised him. Life wasn’t all it was pumped up to be and death wouldn’t be as nice as people claimed it to be.”
Source: Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim
“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
“No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde”
“No good deed goes unpunished- Syn”
“No good end exists for any dictator!”
“No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend”
“No good ever came from not talking.”
“No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.”
“No good ever comes from underestimating people...Take it from someone who knows.”
Source: A Most Clever Girl
“no good ever comes of a man who forgets an old friend”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.”
“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”
Source: It: 2
“No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.”
“No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.”
Source: Nature Heals
“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
Source: Complete Works of John Ruskin
“No good man ever became suddenly rich.”
“No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.”
“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.”
“No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“No good news awaits
I warned you right at the start
Turn away, reader”
Source: The Burning Maze
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
“No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.”
“No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?”
“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
Source: Pavannes and Divisions
“No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.”
Source: So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine
“No good sentences ever include the word ‘should.’ I should have paid the tavern bill; now they’re coming to break my legs. I should never have run off with my best friend’s wife; now she devils me constantly. I should—”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.”
Source: Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance
“No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.”
“No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that you are alert - ready - to see. What joy it is for paint to become a thing - a being. Believe in this miracle - it is your only hope. To will this transformation is not possible. Only a slow maturation can prepare the hand and eye to become quicker than ever. Ideas about art don't matter. They collapse anyway in front of the painting.”
“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”
“No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God.”
“No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
“No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.”
Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920
“No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen