N Quotes
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“No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.”
“No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.”
“No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.”
“No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.”
Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
“No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.”
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it's collective. Nothing passes into the realm of the collective without leaving at the border--like a toll--most of the intelligence it contained.
In youth we're twofold. Our innate intelligence, which may be considerable, coexists with the stupidity of our inexperience, which forms a second, lesser intelligence. Only later on do the two unite. That's why youth always blunders - not because of its inexperience, but because of its non-unity.
Today the only course left for the man of superior intelligence is abdication.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”
“No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.”
“No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.”
Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset
“No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.”
Source: Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence
“No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.”
“No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.”
Source: The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters
“No intelligent person, the sophisticated pagan might have explained, actually worshiped images of the gods, or worshiped living emperors; instead, the gods' images - and the images of the emperors themselves - provided an accessible focus for revering the cosmic forces they represented.”
Source: Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
“No intelligent radical can fail to realize the need of the rational education of the young. The rearing of the child must become a process of liberation by methods which shall not impose ready-made ideas, but which should aid the child's natural self-unfoldment. The purpose of such an education is not to force the child's adaptation to accepted concepts. but to give free play to his [and her] originality, initiative, and individuality. Only by freeing education from compulsion and restraint can we create the environment for the manifestation of the spontaneous interest and inner incentives on the part of the child. Only thus can we supply rational conditions favorable to the development of the child's natural tendencies and his latent emotional and mental faculties. Such methods of education, essentially aiding the child's imitative quality and ardor for knowledge, will develop a generation of healthy intellectual independence. It will produce men and women capable, in the words of Francisco Ferrer, “of evolving without stopping, of destroying and renewing their environment without cessation; of renewing themselves also; always ready to accept what is best, happy in the triumph of new ideas, aspiring to live multiple lives in one life.”
“No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes the links, uncouples the partners, moves them on. The dance of life is spontaneous, self-sustaining, and self-creating.”
Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
“No intentes enterrar el dolor: se extenderá a través de la tierra, bajo tus pies; se filtrará en el agua que hayas de beber y te envenenará la sangre. Las heridas se cierran, pero siempre quedan cicatrices más o menos visibles que volverán a molestar cuando cambie el tiempo, recordándote en la piel su existencia, y con ella el golpe que las originó. Y el recuerdo del golpe afectará a decisiones futuras, creará miedos inútiles y tristezas arrastradas, y tú crecerás como una criatura apagada y cobarde. ¿Para qué intentar huir y dejar atrás la ciudad donde caíste? ¿Por la vana esperanza de que en otro lugar, en un clima más benigno, ya no te dolerán las cicatrices y beberás un agua más limpia? A tu alrededor se alzarán las mismas ruinas de tu vida, porque allá donde vayas llevarás a la ciudad contigo. No hay tierra nueva ni mar nuevo, la vida que has malogrado malograda queda en cualquier parte del mundo.”
Source: Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes
“No intentes hacerme crecer antes de tiempo, Meg; bastante duro es ya verte cambiar a ti de repente. Déjame ser niña todo el tiempo que pueda.”
Source: Mujercitas, parte 1
“No intento tejer una historia; estoy tratando de contar la verdad.”
Source: The Only Story
“No interior da grande cidade de todos está a cidade pequena em que realmente vivemos.”
“No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.”
“No interruptions, stereos pumpin from the dungeon, coming live from Flatbush Junction”
“No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.”
“No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.”
“No investigation of the human story in the Americas [...] can ignore the role of Siberia as a crossroads in the migrations of our ancestors. Moreover, despite the fact that only a tiny fraction of its vast area has yet been sampled by archaeologists, we already know that anatomically modern humans were present in both western and Arctic Siberia at least as far back as 45,000 years ago. We know, too, that DNA studies have revealed close genetic relationships between Native Americans and Siberians that speak to a deep and ancient connection.”
Source: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
“No investment is without risks, and no opportunity is guaranteed. Nothing is certain. And if somebody claims it, stay away from that person.”
“No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.”
“No investor can have a successful career without a sufficient understanding of fear and keeping it in check.”
“No involvement means no commitment—no exception.”
“No início da minha detenção, no entanto, o mais difícil é que tinha pensamentos de homem livre. Por exemplo, desejo de estar numa praia e de descer para o mar. Imaginando o barulho das primeiras ondas sob as solas dos pés, a entrada do corpo na água e a libertação que encontrava nisso: sentia, de repente, até que ponto as paredes da prisão me cercavam. Isto durou alguns meses. Depois, só tinha pensamentos de prisioneiro. Aguardava o passeio diário ou a visita do advogado. Nessa época, pensei muitas vezes que se me obrigassem a viver dentro de um tronco seco de árvore, sem outra ocupação além de olhar a flor do céu acima da minha cabeça, eu teria me habituado aos poucos. […] Ora, a verdade é que eu não estava em uma árvore seca. Havia pessoas mais infelizes do que eu. Era, aliás, uma ideia de mamãe, e ela repetia com frequência que acabávamos nos acostumando a tudo.”
Source: The Stranger
“No início me chamavam de princesa prateada, por causa dos meus cabelos longos e acinzentados, marca de toda a minha dinastia. Mas não demorou muito até que eu fosse conhecida como a princesa carmim. Ainda graças aos meus cabelos, que ficavam rubros com o sangue de nossos inimigos. Até hoje, ele continua em um tom pálido de vermelho rosado, um eterno lembrete de quem eu precisei me tornar para que meu povo fosse livre.”
Source: Era de Sombras e Lembranças
“No início você briga, chora, faz drama mexicano. Então percebe que é cansativo demais manter esse jeito de levar as coisas. Acostuma-se… Não que pare de doer, mas que cai no seu entendimento que às vezes perdemos algo e não há solução. No fim você coloca um sorriso no rosto e finge que é sincero, até que a vida o faça realmente ser. Talvez os amores eternos sejam amenos e os intensos, passageiros. É isso.”
“No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.”
“No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.”
“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.”
“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”
“No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that.
When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no.
We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say "No".
Early on my journey I found developing the ability to say no expanded my ability to say yes and really mean it.
My early attempts at saying no were often far from graceful but with practice even my no came from a place of love.
Love yourself enough to be able to say yes or no.”
“No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that.
When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no.
We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'”
“NO” is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer someone’s request with a simple No.”
Source: The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal
“No' is a reaction, not a position. The people who react negatively to your proposal simply need time to evaluate it and adjust their thinking. With the passage of sufficient time and repeated efforts on your part, almost every 'no' can be transformed into a 'maybe' and eventually a 'yes'.”
“No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.”
“NO is always a YES to something else.”
“No is an unacceptable answer. I'm allergic to no.”
“No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.”
“No is golden. No is the power the good witch wields.”
Source: Brave Enough
“No is no negative in a woman's mouth.”
Source: The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
“No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.”
“No, Isla," he finally said. "It's the parts you don't seem to like about yourself that I love the most.”
“No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.”