N Quotes
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“No one has to teach God's people to know God.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“No one has to tell her that her body makes her irrelevant to that entire conversation.
Grace has never questioned her body's place in the world. She's always believed the laws of movies and TV shows: Chubby girls are sidekicks, not romantic leads; sometimes they get to be funny, but more often they're the butt of jokes; if they're powerful, they'e evil- they're Ursula the sea witch from The Little Mermaid: they are not heroines and they are certainly not sexy. These are the rules. This is the script.”
Source: The Nowhere Girls
“No one has truly become successful on life without having to organize his life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.”
“No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.”
“No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.”
Source: The Great Instauration
“No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existenceDeath is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.”
“No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as we are known' (I Cor 13:12). But for the present what reaches us is a scant emanation, as it were a small beam from a great light - which means that any one who 'knew' God or whose 'knowledge' of Him has been attested to in the Bible, has a manifestly more brilliant knowledge than others not equally illuminated. This superiority was reckoned knowledge in the full sense, not because it really was so, but by the contrast of relative strengths.”
“No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.”
“No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.”
“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
“No one has yet tested the pencil
To see how many words it can write”
Source: Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems
“No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly.”
Source: The Hollow Places
“No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.”
“No one hates war like a soldier hates war.”
“No one hates war more than those who fight”
Source: Embers
“No one have mercy to biter mosquitoes.”
“No one heals himself by wounding another.”
“no one her in the Western world has time to spare, to sit and just be with anyone else, we drinking endless cups of tea. We were all victims of some invisible timetable ordering our every movement, governing our every step.”
Source: The Unmarriageable Man: A Novel
“No one here gets out alive.”
“No one here is embarrassed of their gift.”
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“No one here likes a wet dog.”
“No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.”
Source: The Name of the Star
“No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.”
“No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.”
“No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.”
“No one hugs, everyone is busy comforting with words.”
“No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.”
Source: Murder Is Easy
“No one hurts my family and lives”
“No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me.”
“No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.”
“No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.”
“No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.”
“No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.”
“No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London
“No one, I repeat, NO ONE, wants to go on a date with someone with air brushed photos, or just that ONE pic someone took of you at the beach when you miraculously looked like Gwyneth Paltrow or Hugh Jackman back in 2006.”
Source: 40x42: An Online Dating Survival Guide
“No one, I suppose, genuinely admits the real existence of another person. We may concede that the person is alive and that he thinks and feels as we do, but there will always be an unnamed element of difference, a materialized inequality.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“No one imagines keeping the powerful low for long, apart from anything because if the peasants governed and the lords worked the land, everyone would quickly die of hunger, because everyone gets the hands they deserve.”
Source: Q
“No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.”
“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”
“No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.”
“no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.”
“No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.”
“No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.”
“No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.”
“No one in any generation has ever identified himself intellectually with the masses. Therefore, it seems like an abstract word that does not exist or we all pretend to be smarter than it looks.”
“No one in chains could ever truly love you.'
He glares. 'Do you expect me to believe you know anything about love?'
The truth of that hits like a blow.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“No one in college football or the SEC can tackle me by themselves.”
“No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.”