N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.”
Source: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy
“Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.”
Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
“Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?”
“Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.”
“Naturally, I mine my girlfriends lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.”
“Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn’t mean what it does now. Had I known then what it would come to mean in the next few years, I’m sure I’d have been overwhelmed. At the time, I think I was more thrilled over meeting Douglas Fairbanks.”
“Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.”
“Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.”
Source: The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones
“Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me.”
“Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!”
“Naturally, in 10 years, you change as a person and you learn a lot from your mistakes. You also learn a lot about wasting time and the right way to handle things. We're not touring as much. We're not doing eight or nine months of the year, so I've got a bit more time to get a perspective on what I do. I think I've improved my songwriting. I'm every bit as enthusiastic about playing as ever and I'm still learning.”
“Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.”
Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays
“Naturally, in this period, there are also some ups and downs, and this is nothing strange.”
“Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.”
“Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.”
Source: D.V.
“Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.”
Source: Guilty
“Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.”
Source: The practical works of Richard Baxter: with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by William Orme
“Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.”
“Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.”
“Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.”
“Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.”
Source: The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags
“Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.”
“Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.”
“Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)”
Source: The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays
“Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.”
Source: God in the Dock
“Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”
“Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.”
“Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.”
“Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.”
“Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.”
“Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.”
“Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.”
“Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.”
Source: Prelude to Foundation
“Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.”
“Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.”
“Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.”
“Naturally, we will continue to offer very powerful vehicles in the future. Nevertheless, no other manufacturer has reduced the CO2 emissions of its fleet as substantially as the BMW Group.”
“Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.”
Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?”
“Naturally, when life's lessons knock at the door of our life, happiness can be momentarily obscured.”
“Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.”
“Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.”
“Naturalmente, era mentira que no dolería nada. Pero como los adultos siempre decían lo mismo cuando algo iba a doler, podía considerar esa afirmación como una predicción exacta del futuro. Algunas veces las mentiras eran más de fiar que las verdades.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“Naturalmente io non sono un ingenuo e scuso il dottore di vedere nella vita stessa una manifestazione di malattia. La vita somiglia un poco alla malattia come procede per crisi e lisi ed ha i giornalieri miglioramenti e peggioramenti. A differenza delle altre malattie la vita è sempre mortale. Non sopporta cure. Sarebbe come voler turare i buchi che abbiamo nel corpo credendoli delle ferite. Morremmo strangolati non appena curati.”
Source: La coscienza di Zeno / Senilità
“Naturalmente la distinzione/congiunzione tra essere ed esistenza riguarda tutti gli esseri umani, e la potenziale priorità dell'essere concreto per vivere meglio concerne gli uomini non meno che le donne, seppure con diversi accenti. Nulla vieta a noi maschi - le lettrici e i lettori mi permetteranno questa riflessione di genere, in questo caso maschile - di poter riacquistare una giusta postura al riguardo. Nulla lo vieta se non la stessa terribile scelta millenaria di separazione, di oppressione nei confronti del genere femminile di cui siamo, anche inconsapevolmente protagonisti - e l'inconsapevolezza non è mai stata una scusa per un pensiero virtuoso. Allora, nessun senso di colpa: se proviamo a sentire, a pensare, a volere, a poter vivere diversamente la specie e quindi innanzitutto il genere femminile - per noi maschi significa capirne la positività, provare ad imparare da esso suscitandone gli insegnamenti e quindi, perché ne è un aspetto costitutivo, rispettandolo come genere primo -, se riusciremo in questo miglioreremo noi stessi, liberandoci da tare storiche acquisite, di cui non possiamo essere elettivamente responsabili in prima persona ma che tendiamo a riverberare e perpetuare. Conquistare una visione concreta della specie e dei generi, innanzitutto del genere femminile, vuol dire anche, e con crescente importanza, provare ad elaborare un'ontica e un'ontologia femminile (per ontica intendo il concreto dell'essere e per ontologia la potenzialità dell'essere). Elaborare un'ontica e un'ontologia del genere femminile significa andare alle radici di un'ontica e un'ontologia concretamente intese dell'umanità tutta, e concretamente vuol dire inseparabile dall'esistenza e dal vissuto, inseparabile dalle scelte che si operano, dai valori morali ed etici che si scelgono. E perciò stesso certamente è anche un problema filosofico, e non solo: è un problema di teoresi complessiva, un problema - e un bel problema - della vita.”
Source: L'origine femminile dell'Umanità. Dialoghi, lezioni, articoli
“Naturalmente, muitos de nós tendemos a associar o conceito de criatividade exclusivamente com o cérebro humano, mas vale a pena lembrar que o próprio cérebro – de longe a invenção mais sofisticada da existência – é o produto da evolução. Por isso, talvez não seja surpresa que as tentativas de construir máquinas criativas muito frequentemente incorporam técnicas de programação genética.”
Source: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future