N Quotes
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“No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.”
“No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.”
“No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“No great thing happens suddenly.”
Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
Source: The Moral Discourses of Epictetus
“No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.”
“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”
Source: Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire
“No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.”
“No great undertaking ever looks like it's winnable. That only comes later and only if you are lucky and are willing to fight and have a group of folks around you that are willing to do the same thing, too.”
“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen
“No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.”
Source: The National Review
“No great work of art is ever finished.”
“No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.”
“No greater affirmation of life is possible than to wish every part of it to return to you forever. It is the sublime moment when a person can look at his life, no matter what it consists of – good, bad, or indifferent – and find within himself the desire never to be freed
from any aspect of it that allows a human being to be transformed into an Übermensch, the supreme life affirmer.”
“No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“No greater calm can be felt than when we are at peace with ourselves.”
Source: Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe
“No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason, all parts of the work need to be done exactly according to the rules of the art which all workmen know, but few observe.”
Source: The two books on the water supply of the city of Rome
“No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues
“No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.”
Source: The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts
“No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.”
“No greater grief than to remember days of joy, when mis'ry is at hand!”
Source: Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book I
“No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.”
Source: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alghieri Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Four Volumes
“No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy, when misery is at hand. That kens
Thy learn’d instructor. Yet so eagerly 120
If thou art bent to know the primal root,
From whence our love gat being, I will do
As one, who weeps and tells his tale. One day,
For our delight we read of Lancelot, 4
How him love thrall’d. Alone we were, and no 125
Suspicion near us. Oft-times by that reading
Our eyes were drawn together, and the hue
Fled from our alter’d cheek. But at one point
Alone we fell. When of that smile we read,
The wished smile so raptorously kiss’d 130
By one so deep in love, then he, who ne’er
From me shall separate, at once my lips
All trembling kiss’d. The book and writer both
Were love’s purveyors. In its leaves that day
We read no more.”
Source: The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14
“No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.”
Source: Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 5
“No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“No greater mischief could be wrought
Than love united to a jealous thought.”
Source: The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes
“No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.”
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays
“No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road
“No greater place to be than in a leadership position to lead young minds to prosperity”
“No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children”
“No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value.”
Source: Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
“No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6
“No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.”
Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896
“No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.”
Source: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 - - v. 2. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
“No Green Revolution, no hydroponics, no making the deserts bloom can beat an exponential population growth.”
Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.”
“No grief reaches the dead.”
“No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.”
“No Grisha has ever taken a second amplifier. The risks—"
"Now that's a word best not used around me. I tend to be overfond of risk.”
Source: Siege and Storm
“No groom.
No electricity.
Stuck in a house with a naked guy.
Screwed.”
Source: Get A Clue
“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“No group is worth joining if everybody is welcome.”
“No group of humans has ever been held in as low regard or exploited on anything close to the same level as non-human beings have been throughout history and still are today. No group of humans has ever been systematically bred, raised, killed, and eaten. No group of humans has ever been born and raised in order for people to make basketballs, wallets, or boots out of their skin. No, there is no comparison. No group of humans has ever truly been “treated like animals”.”
Source: Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It
“No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.”
Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
“No group wants to be known locally or widely as "the group that is thoughtlessly, carelessly or intentionally unwelcoming to people of color.”
Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.”
“No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.”