N Quotes
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“No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.”
Source: Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
“No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.”
“No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.”
“No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.”
Source: The Road to Freedom: A Collection of Speeches, Pastoral Letters, and Articles from 1997-2001
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.”
Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus
“No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.”
“No grace, no spiritual growth.”
“No, Gramma. I don’t want a man.”
“You could have a girlfriend then. No need to have a ‘baby daddy’ in your life.”
Source: Her Rock Star Mountain Man
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.”
“No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.”
Source: the new industrial state
“No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.”
“No great achievement is possible without madness.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“No great achievement is possible without persistent work.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.”
“No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.”
“No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.”
“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.”
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“No great deed was ever accomplished without focus - a defined direction and purpose. Olympic athletes win by focusing on one sport, not several.”
Source: Clarity Wins: Get Heard. Get Referred.
“No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.”
“No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.”
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
“No great dream has ever come to the feet of his dreamer!”
“No great goal was ever easily achieved.”
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?”
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”
Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature
“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.”
“No great inner event befalls those who summon it not”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck
“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”
“No great leader in history fought to prevent change.”
Source: Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No great man is ever born too soon or too late.”
Source: South Wind
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data”
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.”
Source: The Joke
“No great, no beautiful thing can ever be a common possession.”
“No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.”
“No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.”
“No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.”
“No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road
“No great saint lived without errors.”
Source: Dris Martini Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia: Or, Dr Martin Luther's Divine Discourses at His Table,&c: Which in His Life Time Hee Held with Divers Learned Men (such as Were Philip Melancthon, Casparus Cruciger, Justus Jonas, Paulus Eberus, Vitus Dietericus, Joannes Bugenhagen Joannes Forsterus, and Others) Conteining Questions and Answers Touching Religion, and Other Main Points of Doctrine, as Also Many Notable Histories, and All Sorts of Learning, Comforts, Advises, Prophesies, Admonitions, Directions and Instructions. Collected First Together by Dr Antonius Lauterbach, and Afterward Disposed Into Certain Common Places by John Aurifaber Dr in Divinitie. Translated Out of the High Germane Into the English Tongue by Capt. Henrie Bell. ...
“No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.”
“No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.”
“No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“No great stars above her. Only a blackness that hurt to look at. Had the distant suns abandoned their birthplace? Earth was dying and the stars were gone like adulterous celestial lovers seeking a new terrestrial mate. She did not blame them. We were never worth shining for, she thought.”
Source: Ruinland Chronicles Vol.3
“No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida