N Quotes
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“No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.”
“No life' is the easy way out to all of man's problems.”
“No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand: American Landscape Gardener (1872-1959)
“No life, no living.”
“No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.”
Source: Living the Message: Daily Reflections with Eugene H. Peterson
“No, life's not wholly vanished here. / You only have to look for it, / behind, before, between these leaves, / above the broken ends of branches / where one small bluebird takes its pause...
(from Between These Leaves)”
Source: The Humbling and Other Poems
“No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.”
“No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.”
“No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.”
“No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.”
“No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.”
Source: The Rise of Endymion
“No light can cover the darkness of a liar's heart”
“No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.”
“no light no dark no you no me know light know dark know you know me”
“No light thing is it, to come back from death,
For, in good sooth, the gods of nether gloom
Are quick to seize but late and loth to free!”
Source: The Persians
“NO LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOW AND NO SHADOW WITHOUT LIGHT”
“No,” Lillian said frankly. “But much as I hate to admit it, that puts us in a minority. Swift is liked by everyone in the northern hemisphere, including Westcliff and his friends, my friends, the servants, the neighbors—”
“You are exaggerating—”
“—children, animals and the higher order of plants,” Lillian finished sardonically. “If root vegetables could talk, I’ve no doubt they would say they like him, too.”
Daisy, who was sitting by the window with a book, looked up with a sudden grin. “His charm doesn’t extend to poultry,” she said. “He has a problem with geese.” Her smile turned quizzical. “Thank you for being so accommodating, Lillian. I expected you to make a fuss about the betrothal.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.”
“No limitation is imposed on how high or deep your lovemaking can go except your failure to assume possession of your own sensuality.”
“No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.”
Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
“No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.”
Source: Population: The First Essay
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
Source: The Road
“NO LITANY OF LOVE LIES WITH A PLEA OF RELEASE”
Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.”
“No literature is infallible, but while errors in scientific literature are proudly mended by later scientists, errors in religious literature are rarely mended - they are interpreted, reinterpreted, and justified in a million ways, but never questioned, as very few persons of faith have got the brain and backbone to acknowledge errors, let alone correct them - this is not holiness, it's blindness most primitive.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“No literature is infallible, but while errors in scientific literature are proudly mended by later scientists, errors in religious literature are rarely mended - they are interpreted, reinterpreted, and justified in a million ways, but never questioned, as very few persons of faith have got the brain and backbone to acknowledge errors, let alone correct them - this is not holiness, it's blindness most primitive.
Reverence without revision isn't sanctity, it's stagnation - and stagnation might feel honorous, but it leads to devolution. Just because it's habit doesn't make it holy - admission of error is the beginning of enlightenment.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.”
Source: Vignettes of the Sea
“No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.”
Source: Cloak of Aesir
“No little boy likes to be called a little man, but any little boy likes to be treated as a little man, and this is what Marian had done for me: at times, and when she had wanted to, she had endowed me with the importance of a grown-up; she had made me feel that she depended on me. She, more than anyone, had puffed me up.”
Source: The go-between
“No, little boys are much wimpier than little girls.”
“No, Little Nightmare. In all the many years before you first terrified me, I never ... married." He raised an eyebrow as if to suggest more by the word. "That kind of knowledge of a person has its own kind of power. I have never felt so overcome that I have desired another person to know what makes me gasp with delight or sigh with pleasure. Knowledge is power. And I have kept that power to myself." He looked up at the stars before continuing. "It's so much harder to be cruel when you're in love. And so much easier to be betrayed.”
Source: Fae Captive
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydid are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills for 100 years, and may stand for 100 more.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, buy some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks meet neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“No lives have been lost as yet, and none of our women have been taken," said Godolphin stiffly, "but as the fellow is a Frenchman we all realize that it is only a question of time before something dastardly occurs.”
Source: Frenchman's creek
“No living being can ever “hitch” another living being. If one were able to “hitch” another, then we can say that the principle of this world is false! In this world, no one being is a superior over another.”
“No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“No living being, right upto attaining moksha, has deliberately done anything,’. Understand just this one sentence.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.”
“No living creature lives without mistakes, Leo.” As it spoke, the flightsuit played videos in the visor, showing diapered babies sitting down hard as they learned to walk, tiger cubs rolling with each other and a blur of dozens of different moments captured from Earth. Everything man and Explorer creates is designed from mistakes, learned and corrected, to improve subsequent designs. I am the product of millions of mistakes, adjustments made to original concepts and plans.”
The images in the visor displayed bridges swaying wildly, buildings crumbling to the ground, the blackened interior of a space capsule through a charred open door.
“Every device you've ever used-so familiar you may have never considered their creation. Every device is the product of mistakes, hundreds or thousands of previous mistakes. You see the results, but you do not see the mistakes.”
The flightsuit paused. “You see yourself in the mirror and see the results, and you do not see the millions of shaping events that made you. You survived these challenges. There are millions more shaping events ahead of you. You have not yet survived these, and so they feel dangerous and uncertain. If you were able to precisely recall, at will, the feelings of fear and uncertainty you experienced in the past or the moments you long ago overcame and survived would you discourage your past self from trying?”
Source: Flightsuit
“No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.”
Source: The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck
“No living dangerously for you? I'd have thought you thrived on that given you're here.”
”That's where you misjudge me,” I countered. “Danger for danger's sake isn't something I'm partial to.”
Source: Rats: Tori
“No living nation throughout history but employs the lives of its great figures and major events as leverage for educating its youngsters.”
Source: A Child Reads
“No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.”
Source: Orley farm
“No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.”
Source: The Heart of William James
“No living thing ever defeated Tain Hu in battle. Only the tide could fight her. Only the moon and the sea together could bring her down.”
Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant