N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.”
“No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.”
“No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.”
“No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.”
“No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.”
“No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes to sleep, and I love his company. But I've trained myself to be able to work anywhere, and I write on trains, planes, in automobiles (if I'm not the driver), airports, hotel rooms. I travel often. If I couldn't write wherever I was I would get little done. I also can write in short bursts. Fifteen minutes are enough to move a story forward.”
“No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.”
Source: The Wall
“No, my dear. I think women are more intelligent. But we should be wise enough not to show it and definitely not to voice it. At least, until after marriage.”
Source: A Deal with the Earl
“No, my friend, you are not ‘too old’. You’ve only grown into a hand-me-down lie. You are younger than your tomorrows, wiser than your yesterdays, confident in your now, centuries ahead of seconds, stronger for all you’ve conquered, and deserving of the levels you have reached. It’s about time to admit that you are timeless.”
Source: Feast
“No, my love. I would take sweet respite from my duties to scent burning flesh on the wind. Come, my subjects!”
Source: The Recognition
“No, my love, if we miss our opportunity to break into [his] residence tonight, the consequences will be grave, for I’m convinced you would never let me forget it was my fault. Then you won’t invite me to help the next time you break into a gentleman’s apartments and I will be forced to sneak up on you whilst you are hiding in a dark corner, and your shout of alarm will alert the butler, which will cause a great ruckus involving Runners and magistrates. And that must be avoided at all costs.”
Source: A Nefarious Engagement
“No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.”
Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements
“No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.”
Source: Rational Evolution: (the Making of Humanity)
“No nacen las ideas de los puños… Exactament. Però les nostres idees són unes altres després de les punyades. Sobretot si som els qui les hem rebudes.”
Source: Aforismes
“No, NAKED GUY'S the stupid one here, naked guy -- NAKED GUY WENT AND MADE HULK ANGRY!!”
“No naked man is sought after to be rifled.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“No name, no background, no ancestry, nothing - you identity is your purpose - your identity is your work - your identity is your accountability - your identity is your sacrifice.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.”
“no narcissist can survive elderhood”
Source: Poesía no apta para insensibles
“No," Nathan grumbled. "Like, not piss on him, just all around him." Stuart raised an eyebrow. "Nath, you need to chill. We're in a bar, a busy bar. We can't stop people talking to each other."
"I know but-"
"Look, don't worry about it," Stuart insisted. "Try not to turn into a bunny boiler just yet.”
Source: A Bar Tender Tale
“No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.”
“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a a sense of sin which they already had... The "Gospels" [came] later, and were written, not to make Christians, but to edify Christians already made.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.”
Source: A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young
“No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.”
“No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“No nation bows before an army. Or a general. They bow before a ruler, in charge of her legions.”
“No nation can advance unless the old ideals of exploration and adventure are lived. There must be lives lost in flying, as in every other step of progress, and as many lives have been lost in the past, but there is no need to run foolish risks. The search for adventure need not entail foolhardiness. Fear is a tonic and danger should be something of a stimulant”
“No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.”
Source: A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings
“No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.”
“No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.”
Source: On Scientific Communism
“No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.”
“No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.”
Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service
“No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.”
“No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
“No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.”
“No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.”
“No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.”
“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”
“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.”
“No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.”
“No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.”
“No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.”
“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.”
Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays
“No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.”
“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.”
“No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.”
“No nation ever rises higher than its women.”
“No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
Source: See, I Told You So