N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!”
“No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must be strictly monitored by its owner to prevent lapses into health-threatening behaviors as identified by risk discourse. For those with the socioeconomic resources to indulge in risk modification, this discourse may supply the advantages of a new religion; for others, this discourse has the potential to create anxiety and guilt, to promote hopelessness and fear of the future.”
“No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.”
“No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.”
“No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.”
“No longer looking for someone to sing over a beat. I want someone to rhyme with. Let's create music together. Let's harmonize and decide how the words should fall”
“No longer married, suddenly I was widowed. From Latin, the name means "emptied." Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our lives. Shattered, the word kept recurring; the whole pattern shattered, just as the mountain rocks had shattered his body.”
Source: Why Religion? A Personal Story
“No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.”
“No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone.”
“No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”
“No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.”
“No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.”
“No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.”
“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”
“No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.”
“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“No longer trusting someone is even more saddening if you still love them.”
“No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“No longer wanting to be a man..., dreaming of another form of failure.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.”
Source: The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge
“No longer was she living moment to moment in a hyper-vigilant state, she was reminded of more primal needs. She was a female in the arms of a very potent male.”
Source: Knights of Stone: Bryce
“No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.”
Source: Against the Grain: (À rebours)
“No longer was she the little girl trying to be an adult. She was a grown woman, feeling ten feet tall.”
Source: Finding Erin
“No longer were tears and fear and uncertainty seen as just a child who was scared; now they were a pathetic excuse for an adult. No longer were my sensory issues seen as those of a little girl with extra support needs; now I was an adult who was noncompliant and a burden.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much the same way that flour is linked to the market for bread. Fair value for CMOs (the finished product) implied a fair value for conventional mortgage bonds (the raw materials).”
Source: Liar's Poker
“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”
Source: The plague: translated from the French
“No longer what your belief about yourself is - if you've always been poor, if you've always been overweight, if you've always had rotten relationships, if your luck hasn't been good, if you don't attract into your life the things you want, if you've always been shy or always been aggressive - whatever it is and however long you've held it, the belief that you can't change it is not aligned with Source. Source says you can be anything. You can do anything. You're infinite.”
“No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid!”
“No longer will they get a say in how my days go; they will all be great, for I shall make it so!!”
“No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.”
“No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.”
Source: Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday
“No longer would I stand mutely by and let others decide my future and control my life. The only person I could trust was myself.”
Source: The Engraver's Secret
“No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.”
Source: Nightwoods: A Novel
“No loose fish enters our quiet bay.”
“No; los años que habían distraído su juventud y su lozanía no habían hecho más que darle a él mayor esplendor, hombría, y desenvoltura, sin menoscabar para nada sus dotes personales.”
Source: Persuasion
“No, los errores no resultan mejores por hablar sobre ellos. Hay que actuar; por eso dejo este lugar, para prepararme.”
Source: Der Seelenbrecher
“No los llames no creyentes, porque incluso diciendo esto los estás juzgando. Debes pensar en ellos como tu hermano y tu hermana. No te puedes considerar una verdadera creyente si no ves a Cristo en cada persona que encuentras.”
Source: My Heart Will Triumph
“No. Los monstruos no viven bajo la cama como te contaron, sino en tu cabeza. Y hasta que no lo saques de ahí siempre vas a tener miedo.”
“No loss is big enough to lose hope for tommorrow.”
“No loss should ever be viewed as a failure.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.”
Source: Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose
“No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“No love can surpass the love of a mother, no care can surpass a sister's care. Yet a society run by balls and bananas, makes a hooker out of our mothers and sisters.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“No love can survive muteness.”
“No love defines us as much
as the losses we have made in its name.”
“No love exists without sacrifice, no sacrifice exists without love!”
“No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.”
Source: Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
“No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.”