N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.”
“No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.”
“No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.”
Source: Leaving home: a memoir
“No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to.”
“No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love.”
Source: Father of My Heart
“No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.”
“No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?”
“No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.”
“No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Source: Repentance
“No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap”
“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.”
“No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.”
“No one ever really gets used to nightmares.”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.”
“No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.”
Source: Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance
“No one ever recognizes me.”
“No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.”
Source: The Essays of Elia
“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.”
Source: The Essays of Elia
“No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they thought as he did, if they saw what he did, they never mentioned it; and to have things which are precious to one eternally unmentioned makes one, he had long discovered, lonely. These August nights, for instance—remarkably and unusually beautiful, warm and velvety as he had never known them, ushered in each evening by the most astonishing variety of splendid sunsets—nobody had said a single word about them. They might have been February ones, for all the notice they got. Sometimes he climbed up to the top of Burdon Down towards evening, and stood staring in amazement at what looked like heaven let loose in flames over England; but always he stood alone, always there was no one but himself up there, and no one afterwards, when he descended from his heights, seemed to be aware that anything unusual had been going on.”
Source: Father
“No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'”
“No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.”
“No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.”
“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. I didn't bring you up only to move across sure ground. I didn't teach you to think that everything must be within our control or understanding. Did I? For, if I did, I was wrong. I fyou won't take a chance, then the powers you refuse because you cannot explain them, will, as they say, make a monkey out of you.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“No one ever said we need to fully understand life to enjoy it. There’s a rare joy in letting go of the need to have everything figured out and simply embracing the ride.”
“No one ever said you had to pretend everything was ok. Grief means we loved fiercely. And if that is all anyone ever has to say about either one of us in the end, I think we lived our best life." Hermes to Persephone.”
“No one ever said you’ve got to prepare to be hated. You’ve got to prepare for the yelling and the anger. You have got to prepare how to survive being the guilty one, even in innocence.”
Source: The Summer that Melted Everything
“No one ever says on their deathbed they wish they’d loved fewer people.”
Source: Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee
“No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.”
“no-one ever seemed inclined to repair”
Source: Shantaram
“No one ever seems to get that I need to be alone sometimes.”
Source: Little Darlings
“No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?”
“No one ever sees a phoenix painting words,
Thoughts echo a wasteland:
songs by fate given a heart,
the indifferent let the unpolished shine,
'Get nothing, give nothing, receive nothing,'
The way is lost.
'Maybe this is the one,' no one knows.”
“No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.”
“No one ever sounded like The Slits or looked like them, no matter how many people tried it, or were influenced by it. It's impossible. You can't recreate that. There will never be another Sex Pistols. There will never be another Clash.”
“No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.”
“No one ever stopped when they were winning.”
Source: Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
“No one ever succeeds without the help of others.”
“No one ever suddenly became depraved.”
“No one ever swung too slowly.”
“No one ever takes my side.”
“No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.”
“No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.”
“No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.”
“No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.”
“No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.”
“No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.”
“No one ever tells you how much a heartbreak physically hurts. How it literally feels like you've been kicked down the stairs. How you can't swallow. How every muscle aches. How your heart lurches inside you like it's been poisoned. Nobody tells you that.”
Source: It Only Happens in the Movies
“No one ever tells you men are like knickers – after a time, they get grey and washed out and they can have a tendency to fall down when you least expect it. Or, even worse, you find a perfect pair that you love, only to discover that your shape is changing and they don't fit any more, no matter how much you try to pull them up.”
Source: What If?
“No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.”