N Quotes
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“No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.”
Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches
“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.”
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
“No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.”
“No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.”
Source: Works
“No mortal is happy, and all men on earth
who look upon the sun are wretched.”
“No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.”
Source: Sallust
“No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.”
“No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“No mosque, no museum, no temple, above the human. No Rome, no Reich, no Zion, above the human. No ally, no axis, no mock history, above the human. No passport, no piety, no Promise, above the human.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.”
Source: Empire Falls
“No mother and daughter in Perdido were closer than Mary Love Caskey and Sister. But it was not to be supposed that either told the other everything she thought or knew. In fact, each of them liked to keep little secrets from the other. Secrets which could be sprung at some opportune moment to produce a grand effect, rather in the manner of a little boy tossing lighted firecrackers beneath his sister's bed while she napped on a hot summer afternoon.”
Source: Blackwater, Vol. 1: The Flood / The Levee / The House
“No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...”
“No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”
“No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her.” He found the situation full of whimsical romance: there was something half attractive, half repellent in the thought of this vulgar woman journeying to places he loved and revered. Why should she not be transfigured? The same had happened to the Goths.”
Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread
“No mother should lose her child.”
“No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'”
“No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her.”
“No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.”
“No mother, no father, no Sight.”
Source: Sabriel
“No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.”
Source: Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again
“No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.”
“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”
Source: Wishful Drinking
“No mourners," she whispered, and launched herself through the broken glass.”
Source: King of Scars
“No mourning if the thing you lost is not meant for you.”
“No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated
“No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.”
“No movement can succeed if it is populated by the half-hearted, the weak-willed, those who can always find other things to do with their time, whose priority is always themselves. These are the Ignavi. Go and be a liability to someone else. Hyperianism wants the finest, not the worst. If you can’t be serious about committing to something, don’t bother. Just go back to bed and let the world pass you by.”
Source: Take Them to the Morgue
“No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.”
“No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.”
“No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.”
“No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.”
“No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.”
“No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.”
“No moving picture like no photograph can portray us in the way the human eye does, and that’s not only because on film or in a photo we are portrayed flatly, but because the eye is able to record what no technological medium is able to replicate.”
“NO MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LIFE AND THE SOCCER, THE ONE WHO MAKES MORE GOALS WINS”
“No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“No mueras por mí, ni por nadie. Vive solo por ti. Eso sí que es más romántico.”
Source: Una perfecta confusión
“No multitude of words could have been more significant than those moments of silence, or more pregnant with the first-felt throbbings of desire.”
Source: The Awakening
“No mundo dos antigos, governar era sinónimo de escutar a voz dos deuses. Naturalmente que, com o seria de esperar, esse sistema acabou por ser abolido. Os reis deixaram de ser assassinados e o poder real transformou-se numa instituição laica e hereditária. E foi assim que as pessoas deixaram de ouvir as vozes dos deuse.”
Source: 1Q84 #1-2
“No murderer had before or has since caused such a sensation, passed so quickly into folklore or gained an image – top hat, cape and Gladstone bag – that is truly iconic: as instantly recognisable as Sherlock Holmes's deerstalker and meerschaum pipe, and as capable of conveying a meaning understood around the world – even by people who know nothing about the Ripper or what he did, or that he, unlike Holmes, actually existed.”
Source: Jack the Ripper: The Facts
“No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.”
“No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.”
Source: Tales and Poems
“No muscle is strong like the soul.”
Source: The loneliness of the Fox
“NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSE
To be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wife
who washes the socks and the children,
and returns phone calls and library books and types.
In other words, the reason there are so many more
Men Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius.
It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A.
And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween.
Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theater
matinees--on Saturdays?
Or that Norman Mailer faced 'driver's ed' failure,
chicken pox or chipped teeth?
Fitzgerald's night was so tender because the fender
his teen-ager dented happened when Papa was at a story conference.
Since Picasso does the painting, Mrs. Picasso did the toilet training.
And if Saul Bellow, National Book Award winner, invited thirty-three
for Thanksgiving Day dinner, I'll bet he had help.
I'm sure Henry Moore was never a Cub Scout leader,
and Leonard Bernstein never instructed a tricycler
On becoming a bicycler just before he conducted.
Tell me again my anatomy is not necessarily my destiny,
tell me my hang-up is a personal and not a universal quandary,
and I'll tell you no muse is a good muse
unless she also helps with the laundry.”
“No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.”
Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith.”