N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.”
“No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liberation of hidden treasures, buried fantasies...”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.”
“No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.”
“No man becomes bad all at once.”
“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.”
“No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.”
Source: Six Plays
“No man believes what he does not feel to be true. I should like to unbelieve myself. I sleep at night and wake in the morning hoping to be gone. it never happens. One knee forward, one knee bent, I bear the world.”
Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.”
Source: Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
“No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.”
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.”
Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition
“No man can achieve success if he didn’t first know the value of time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.”
Source: The Law of Success
“No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.”
“No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.”
“No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.”
Source: Think & Grow Rich
“NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.”
“No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.”
“No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.”
“No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.”
Source: The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke
“No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.”
“No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.”
“No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.”
“No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.”
Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
“No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.”
“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.”
“No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.”
Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
“No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
[Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]”
“No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.”
“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
“No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.”
Source: The Will Rogers book
“No man can be convinced when he will not.”
“No man can be everything. A successful long-distance cyclist can't be a bodybuilder. Though there are exceptions, dedicating one's time to becoming exceptional at one thing usually means not being exceptional at a whole lot of other things.
Since no man can be everything, one of the best gifts to give is acceptance-'You don't have to be anything other than what you are.”
Source: Cherish: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage
“No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.”
“No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.”
Source: Med Ship
“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.”
“No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.”
“No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.”
Source: An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success
“No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!”