N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.”
“No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.”
“No matter how old you get, your shadow is always younger than you, because he doesn't have the wrinkles that you have on your body!”
“No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.”
Source: Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well
“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.”
“No matter how old your child is now, try to remember that incredible sociability of infants and toddlers – the way they flirt, smile, pull at our heartstrings. Everything you see now has been built on that foundation. It’s hard to see that happy little guy you raised inside your touchy fifteen year old. But does that little boy emerge when your son is laughing with a group or watching TV with a friend? If so, relax. If, however, you cannot spot any sign of your happy youngster in your older child, if he or she cannot take any pleasure in friends or in a group or is always isolated, then, as a psychologist, I am worried - and you should be too.”
Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.”
“No matter how one feels about the existence of God, I like to believe there are angels.”
Source: Distilled Thoughts
“No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.”
“No matter how painful it may be, we must learn to face our shortcomings with open arms.”
“No matter how painful it might be...I'll do everything in my might! So please, you too, act according to what you believe in!”
“No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.”
“No matter how painful the troubles of life may seem, we must remember that things get better.”
“No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.”
“No matter how Palestinians resist, they are shot, beaten, arrested, tortured, bombed, segregated, and collectively punished. The problem isn't the mode of Palestinian resistance, it is the existence of Palestinians on their land that Israel takes issue with.”
“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”
“No matter how passionately we wish for it to be true, nothing in this world exists in an eternal state of stillness.”
“No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.”
Source: Shigurui 11
“No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.”
“No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“No matter how perfect & honest a person is, there will always be people to criticize. In other words, if everyone agrees with someone, there is something fundamentally wrong with what that individual is doing. If you are not criticized, you are not in the right track.”
“No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.”
“No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation
creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner
world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith”
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
“No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.”
Source: An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
“No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.”
Source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River
“No matter how poor one is, one can still give others riches”
Source: Anne Frank's Tales from the House Behind
“No matter how poorly our lives seem to be going, we can become part of a greater flow of good and increase our awareness by doing something more than we have to do-by giving of ourselves. One of the keys to prosperity is realizing that prosperity doesn't come by getting more-it comes by giving more! We can prosper by emphasizing what we are giving rather than concentrating on what we are getting.”
“No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.”
“No matter how powerful a lie is, it can never destroy the truth.”
“No matter how powerful a waterfall is, it cannot be heard from far away because all waterfalls are local! If you want the whole world to hear you, take a universal position where all can see you, just like the Moon, just like the Sun!”
“No matter how powerful hate seems, it cannot usurp the throne of love.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”
“No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.”
Source: Starter for Ten: A Novel
“no matter how prepared you are
you're never ready”
Source: The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival
“No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.”
“No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life.”
“No matter how pure the quality of our "food," if it emanates from a fanatical, one-sided mental viewpoint, it will reflect the limitations of a thought process that perpetuates the underlying sickness of our emotional and spiritual being. An individual who is unable to achieve a balance of physical exercise, creative expression, and introspective soulful enjoyment will find it difficult to achieve a healing balance with food alone. [...] Fanatical adherence to anything, especially regarding diet, can become its own disease.”
Source: The Way of Chinese Herbs
“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”
“No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.”
“No matter how quickly he reads, he will not be better off if, as is too often true, he does not know what he is looking for and does not know when he has found it.”
“No matter how quiet a street is, if the inside of your head is not quiet, you cannot truly experience the silence of the street!”
“No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate.”
“No matter how radiant your smile might seem, you can never hide the pain in your eyes.”
“No matter how real they are, oases will always look surreal!”
“No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.”
“No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's water cycle and in return affects us.”
“No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.”
“No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.”