N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No, monsieur,' returned Monte Cristo 'upon the simple condition that they should respect myself and my friends. Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me; and thus by giving them a low place in my esteem, and preserving a neutrality towards them, it is society and my neighbor who are indebted to me.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.”
“No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.”
Source: Soul Solution
“No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead.”
Source: Soft Science
“No moon. No stars. No certainty that dawn would come, and no eagerness to see what might arrive with it.”
Source: False Memory
“No moon rose that night. We walked on the tracks, hot and sticky, in displeased gusts of wind that slapped and whipped and pushed, and did more to keep us restless than the events of the day could do to exhaust us. One fact about that night can never be denied — Bright Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Orion and Perseus, the starry heroines and heroes of one-million human nights, marched over our heads in a great procession across the dome of heaven, and sank to the west, undisturbed, silently ashamed of the cowardice of man.”
“no moon
the dark sky glad with stars
first crocus pokes winter in the ass”
Source: busted haiku
“No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”
“No moonlight came in from the skylight.”
Source: The Decagon House Murders
“No moose," Stevie said. "The moose is a lie.”
Source: The Vanishing Stair
“No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.”
“No moral system can rest solely on authority.”
“No moral value is greater than humanity.”
“No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.”
“No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.”
“No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity.”
“No more apologies! So we're poor! All right, we're poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people Shouldn't have to apologize for being poor. The question in America should be, 'Is this guy a good citizen? Is he honest? Does he pull his own weight?”
“No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?”
Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution
“No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.”
“No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.”
“No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.”
Source: Unaccustomed Earth
“No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.”
“No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!”
“No more can this Angel teach her,
Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...”
Source: Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan
“No more chances. Now you will only get my silence.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“No more chances, Golden Eyes. You’re mine and I’ll draw blood to enforce my claim.”
Source: Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel
“No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.”
“No more coming home as to a death sentence.
No more leaving after this leaving.”
Source: Clear Brightness
“No more creepy online alter egos in the name of love.”
Source: Tweet Heart
“No more crying. Tears only cause destructive
floods. When you are sad, you build a boat.”
Source: Without Shame
“No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.”
Source: The Goose Girl
“No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands,
I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands,
suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised,
I'm as determined as them old timers.”
“No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.”
Source: Kiss of Snow
“No more Dane,” he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny. “I can't decide if that means you don't want me to see him again or if you're planning to kill him.” “It means if the first thing happens, the second thing is likely to follow.”
“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”
“No more do I carry love sadness in my heart,
of my heart one thing is just a part;
that to love how you exist,
with love I fill each line, unless it’s with twists…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“No more do plants need sunshine and air—than children need joy and gladness. Unhappiness stunts them, so that their sweetest graces never come out.”
Source: Home Making
“No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.”
“No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.”
Source: The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ
“No more dreamin about the whole adult gig,
We’re no longer burnin’ toward nothing, dude.
Just well on our way on a mythical ship, which no longer touches Land.
God Bless the Cap’n.”
Source: Eat Me & Other Short Poems
“No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.”
“No more excuses. No more self-sabotage. No more self-pity. No more comparing yourself to others. Time to step up. Take action right now and start living your life with purpose.”
“No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.”
“No more “fake Agile.” No more box-checking.”
Source: Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum
“No more fantasies, no more dreams. He knew then that none of the illusions he’d tried to fool himself with had ever even come close. Every detail had been wrong, everything in the world had been wrong, and everything about himself.”
Source: Ghosts of the Shadow Market
“No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.”
“No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy