N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No on should pass an American in uniform without saying "Thank you, we are grateful." Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours.”
“No, on the whole it was better to say kind things of late people, even if they did not fully deserve them. Kindness, after all, did not distinguish between those who merited it and those who did not. It was like rain, she thought. It fell everywhere and made everything green and new and alive once more. That is what it did.”
Source: To the Land of Long Lost Friends
“No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do nothing and we drift fatalistically into a future not driven by technology alone, but by other people's need, greed, and creed. The future is not some dim and distant region out there in time. The future is a reality that is coming to pass with each passing day, with each passing decision.”
Source: Soultsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture
“No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.”
Source: Crossroads
“No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.”
“No one accomplishes anything if they decide before they begin that the task is too difficult. I'd rather attempt the impossible and fail than consign myself to failure before even making the attempt.”
“No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.”
“No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.”
“No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.”
Source: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work
“No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.”
Source: SELF AND OTHERS
“No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.”
“No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”
Source: Elsewhere
“No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!”
“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”
“No one and nothing is perfect, or we wouldn't have uniqueness.”
“No one answer is ever the answer.”
“No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.”
Source: The Children and the Wolves
“No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit”
“No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.”
“No one appreciates anonymity as much as those who have lost it, and you only get to lose it once.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”
“No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.”
“No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)
“No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.”
“No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.”
“No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.”
Source: WALDEN TWO
“No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, something small in a small person, not something that's about society, or about them, just something that means i'm ruining things for myself, something that's in the way of my potential as an object.”
Source: Girls Against God
“no one asks poor people if they want war.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers.”
“No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.”
Source: The Early Life of Stephen Hind
“No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.”
“No one at all sees Death,
No one at all sees the face of Death,
No one at all hears the voice of Death,
Death so savage, who hacks men down.”
Source: Inanna
“No one at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm could tell me what the unmarked hollow metal tubes I had found in the 100 amp fuse holders were made of.”
“No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.”
Source: Queen Of Science
“No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.”
“No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.”
“No one attribute so clearly distinguishes man as does the intelligent will or the will to act intelligently. It was by the exercise of their wills that spiritual beings in the beginning gathered information rapidly or slowly, acquired experiences freely or laboriously. Through the exercise of their wills they grew, remained passive, or retrograded, for with living things motion in any direction is possible.”
Source: Rational Theology
“No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it”
“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”
“No one bargains with fire and avoids becoming ash.”
“no one bears witness for the witness”
Source: Paul Celan: Selections
“No one beats The Legend Killer.. Thats why I'm the greatest in this business!”
“No one became a great cook just by reading the recipes.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“No one becomes depraved all at once.”
“No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.”
“No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.”
Source: Awaken Children Vol. 8
“No one before you has gotten to me this way.”
“No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction - a need, a necessity, a vision that is so pressing that it has no other outlet but through you. That doesn't mean that you are unconscious or in trance, but there can be moments like that.”
“No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.”
Source: In Light of India