N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No one can rate another based on their intelligence; how you see and do things is different from theirs, hence incapable of doing so.”
“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.”
“No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.”
Source: Books and Reading, Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?
“No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.”
“No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world will not throw billions of dollars at photography the way it has at painting; and that is what makes it an exciting medium.”
Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”
“No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.”
“No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.”
“No one can recognize me. This is the only superpower you can have in a small town, the only amount of control you can access.”
Source: If Anyone Could Have Saved Me
“No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity”
“No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.”
Source: Midnight and the Meaning of Love
“No one can remain neutral regarding Jesus' resurrection.
The claim is too staggering,
the event too earthshaking,
the implications too significant
and the matter too serious.
We must either receive it or reject it as truth for us.
To remain indifferent or undecided is to reject it.”
“No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.”
“No one can repair your self-esteem for you. Your spouse cannot fix it. Your parents cannot fix it. Your boss cannot fix it. No amount of success or beauty enhancements can fix it. You have to fix it by changing the way you see yourself. You have to choose to see yourself accurately, to see life as a classroom, and commit to the policy that you have the same value no matter how you perform. It is time to claim the power to do this and not let anyone take your self-esteem from you again.”
Source: Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
“No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.”
“No one can replace the person who loves you the most.”
“No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.”
“No one can reverse best of you!”
“No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.”
“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”
Source: The Garden That I Love
“No one can rightly claim one hundred percent consistency in everything he does; yet we may assert that inasmuch as man earnestly tries and intends to withdraw his support from the evils of society, he approaches intentional pacifist living. This appears to be possible only in a fair degree of isolation, a fair degree of economic self-sufficiency, a greatly lowered standard of living, and, in consequence, in a simple, rural environment. Pacifist living at this point becomes identical with subsistence living.”
“No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.”
Source: What We Believe: The Essence of Science of Mind
“No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.”
“No one can run away from being tested so don't even bother trying.”
Source: Back to Basics [Trying to be Muslim]
“No one can save a person from his or her thoughts and deeds except oneself. We can reach for particles of light to escape our dark chambers or continue to live with an inky soul. We make the choices that become our destiny.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“No one can save anyone else from their own beliefs.”
Source: The Untethered
“No one can save me except myself.”
Source: Take Me There
“No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.”
“No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!”
“No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.”
Source: The Problem of Pain
“No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried.”
“No one can say exactly when the process of combining the different historical, legendary, and mythic elements into a Volsung cycle began, but it was probably at an early date. By the ninth century the legends of the Gothic Jormunrek and those of the destruction of the Burgundians had already been linked in Scandinavia, where the ninth-century “Lay of Ragnar” by the poet Bragi the Old treats both subjects. Bragi’s poem describes a shield on which a picture of the maiming of Jormunrek was either painted or carved and refers to the brothers Hamdir and Sorli from the Gothic section of the saga as “kinsmen of Gjuki,” the Burgundian father of King Gunnar.
The “Lay of Ragnar” has other connections with the Volsung legend. The thirteenth-century Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson identifies the central figure of the lay, whose gift inspired the poem in his honor, with Ragnar Hairy Breeches, a supposed ancestor of the Ynglings, Norway’s royal family. Ragnar’s son-in-law relationship to Sigurd through his marriage to Sigurd’s daughter Aslaug (mentioned earlier in connection with stave church carvings) is reflected in the sequence of texts in the vellum manuscript: The Saga of the Volsungs immediately precedes The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok. Ragnar’s saga, in turn, is followed by Krákumál (Lay of the Raven), Ragnar’s death poem, in which Ragnar, thrown into the snakepit by the Anglo-Saxon King Ella, boasts that he will die laughing. The Volsung and Ragnar stories are further linked by internal textual references.
It is likely that the The Saga of the Volsungs was purposely set first in the manuscript to serve as a prelude to the Ragnar material. The opening section of Ragnar’s saga may originally have been the ending of The Saga of the Volsungs. Just where the division between these two sagas occurs in the manuscript is unclear. Together these narratives chronicle the ancestry of the Ynglings—the legendary line (through Sigurd and Ragnar) and the divine one (through Odin). Such links to Odin, or Wotan, were common among northern dynasties; by tracing their ancestry through Sigurd, later Norwegian kings availed themselves of one of the greatest heroes in northern lore. In so doing, they probably helped to preserve the story for us.”
(Jesse Byock)”
Source: The Saga of the Volsungs
“No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.”
“No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.”
“No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the realm of science. You do have the attitude of the dreamer about you. For that reason, I haven't the heart to argue anymore about this - it is a hopeless talk. And for a simple factory man like me, an effort must be abandoned once its hopelessness is exposed. Only the artist perseveres in such circumstances.”
Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the realm of science. You do have the attitude of the dreamer about you. For that reason, I haven't the heart to argue anymore about this - it is a hopeless talk. And for a simple factory man like me, an effort must be abandoned once its hopelessness is exposed. Only the artist perseveres in such circumstances. (193)”
“No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out.”
“NO one can say 'NO' to sin and 'Yes' to rightousness without the help of Holy Spirit.”
“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“No one can say that this was the decisive and [Russians hacking ] was what elected [Donald] Trump, but clearly his behavior during the campaign in terms of what he said in the week or two before the election was unacceptable.”
“No one can say when love happens, because love is the union of two souls”
“No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.”
“No one can see another in the darkness, Esch, and that cloudless clarity of yours is only a dream. You know that I cannot keep you beside me, much as you fear your loneliness. We are a lost generation. I too can only go about my business.”
Source: The Sleepwalkers
“No one can see very clearly inside the heavy fog, no one but the fog himself!”
“No one can see your life the way you see it.”
Source: Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
“No one can see your visions and dreams as clearly as you can. Purpose is the key to creation manifested through vision.”
Source: Diversities of Gifts: Same Spirit
“No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.”
“No one can sense his own weakness is at least a small temptation is not allowed to afflict either his body or his soul. Then, comparing his weakness to the help of God, a man comes to know its magnitude. But whoever does not know that he needs God's help, let him make many prayers. Insofar as he multiplies them, in that measure will he be humbled.”
“No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.”
“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version