N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.”
“No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.”
Source: GWEN BRISTOW, TOMORROW IS FOREVER
“No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.”
“No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.”
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
“No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.”
Source: The Pigeon
“No human being can prevent you from giving. Because no human being controls God’s agenda.”
“No human being could live in this wasted country, thought Mary, and remain like other people; the very children would be born twisted, like the blackened shrubs of broom, bent by the force of a wind that never ceased, blow as it would from east and west, from north and south. Their minds would be twisted, too, their thoughts evil, dwelling as they must amidst marshland and granite, harsh heather and crumbling stone.”
Source: JAMAICA INN
“No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.”
Source: First and last notebooks
“No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.”
“No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.”
Source: Osler's
“No human being is empty or deficient at the core, but many live as if they were and experience themselves as primarily that way. Attempting to obliterate the sense of deficiency and emptiness that is a core state of any addict is like laboring to fill in a canyon with shovelfuls of dust. Energy devoted to such an endless and futile task is robbed from one’s psychological and spiritual growth, from genuinely soul-satisfying pursuits, and from the ones we love.”
Source: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“No human being is illegal.”
“No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?”
“No human being is immune to adversity or personal setbacks.”
“No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.”
“No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL”
“No human being live a blank life that is thoughtless, therefore you are what you learned on your life time.”
“No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.”
“No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much earlier.”
“No human being shall acquire a superpower, being human is such a superpower”
“No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in this together, my friends, the rich, the poor, the red, white, black, brown and yellow. We share responsibility for Mother Earth and those who live and breathe upon her ..never forget that.”
“No human being should go unaided when it was in her power to aid them.”
Source: The Strange Land
“No human being should wear tight satin.”
“No human being who is in their centre can be hypnotised. That's what needs to be remembered. No human being who is in their centre, who is being guided, who is close to their intuition, who is a sharp, critical apparatus, who has got a sharp sense of judgement, can ever be manipulated.”
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.”
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.”
“No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.”
“No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin
“No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.”
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“No human being...is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's image. Life is a gift from God created in His own image.”
“No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief”
“No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.”
“No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.”
Source: A short history of decay
“No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.”
“No human Brain will ever be able to surpass the Power of a well-developed Intuition that comes from the Heart and the Soul.”
“No human can be preceptor. Only God can be the preceptor. God is one. He is within this human body, and He teaches, guides the man from within. He shows His sportive forms through dreams.”
“No Human can dominate his own Heart.”
“No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
“No human creature can give orders to love.”
“No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.”
“No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.”
Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)
“No human ever emotionally hurt another
expectations, perceptions, attachments and desires did.”
“No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice. Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.”
“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”
Source: The Stones of Venice (Complete)