N Quotes
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“No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution - of whatever race, creed or persuasion.”
“No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.”
“No highly evolved being would ever seek to control the thoughts of anyone, or cause anyone to think or act involuntarily. More along the lines of inspiration and invitation. As when one suddenly experiences an insight, or says, "I've just had a great idea." They can accept it and act on it, or reject it out of hand. There's no "control" involved.”
“No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.”
“No historian should be a nationalist. Nationalism consequently leads to the delusion and mystification of the historical facts, consciously or unconsciously, in favour of national interests, which in turn makes history basically a subjective vision system.”
“No historian should be trusted implicitly.”
“No historical analogies are exactly precise.”
“No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.”
“No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.”
Source: Collected Poems 1931-74
“No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.”
“No, Hman, it is not a few deaths roving the world around him that make a hnau miserable. It is a bent hnau that would blacken the world. And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.”
Source: Out of the Silent Planet
“No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!”
“No hoary falsehood shall conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
Compton”
“No hole is deep enough
to be unclimbable.
Not even the one you
dug yourself into.
Never give up.
On yourself.”
“No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.”
Source: Crome Yellow (克羅姆．耶婁)
“No holiness, no heaven.”
“No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.”
Source: Mister Johnson
“No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.”
Source: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
“No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.”
Source: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
“No honest man will argue on every side”
“No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.”
“No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.”
“No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.”
“No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.”
“No hope is necessary to undertake anything.”
Source: Existentialism is a Humanism
“No hope, is worse than fear.”
“No horrific thing done by a people today is ever justified by what horrible things people have done before.”
“No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.”
“No horse jokes," he said.
"My lord, I apologize for the horse joke. If you put down the book---unharmed!---I will give you a carrot."
He brandished the book at her. "Was that a horse joke?"
"Neigh."
"Was that a horse joke?”
Source: My Lady Jane
“No horse named Morbid ever won a race.”
Source: Across the River and Into the Trees
“No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“No hotel can be recommended as first-class that is not satisfactory in its sanitary arrangements, which should include an abundant flush of water and a supply of proper toilette paper.”
“no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.”
“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”
“No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.”
“No house is big enough for the rule of two women.”
“No house is born bad. Most are thought of fondly, even lovingly. In the beginning, the house on Kill Creek was no exception.”
Source: Kill Creek
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography
“No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.”
“No hubo manifestación de protesta. Pero nos buscamos y nos abrazamos en la plaza. Algún día todo eso será un recuerdo. Algún día, más allá de eso, abra una placa. Y algún día todos pasarán por delante, con algo más por lo que protestar o que demostrar, y tal vez pensarán en nosotros.”
Source: Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
“No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.”
“No human being can be immune to boasting. Even pretending you aren't bragging is already part of bragging.”
“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”
“No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.”
“No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.”
Source: Thoughts and things at home and abroad