N Quotes
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“No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.”
“No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
Source: Jack Kerouac
“No one owns reality, we are merely participants.”
“No one owns the right to tell a story.”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“No one owns you - no matter what the relationship. You are not here on this earth to fulfill the dreams, wants or wishes of a parent, a mate or a child. You are also not responsible to protect any other person from facing their own consequences or realities. You are here to exist, to develop and to grow and be responsible to and for yourself. In the bigger picture of things, it would be well if you also contributed to making this world a better place to be because you passed through it.”
“No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.”
Source: You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success
“No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.”
“No one paid much attention when he left. They continued to eat and drink and talk and laugh over their suffering, and occasionally run to the bathroom to be ill. It was this way more or less every night and every morning. Strangers appeared in his hotel room, always a wreck after the previous night. In the morning, they stuck themselves back together again. They rubbed at raccoon-eyed faces full of smeared makeup, looked for lost hats and feathers and beads and phone numbers and shoes and hours. It wasn't a bad life. It wouldn't last, but nothing ever did.
They would all be like Alfie in the end, crying on his sofa at dawn and regretting it all. Which was why Magnus stayed away from those kinds of problems. Keep moving. Keep dancing.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful power. Once you realize this, you will then be filled with the desire to help others realize this as well. More and more people are resonating with this understanding, and this could result in a more wonderful future for mankind. (165)”
Source: The Secret Life of Water
“No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties”
“No one pays attention to the janitor.”
Source: Lightless
“No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.”
“No one pays me to be nice.”
“No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.”
“No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.”
“No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.”
“No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.”
“No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.”
“No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.”
“No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.”
“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.”
“No one person is the cause for or consequence of all that happens. I am just the tenth man, the threshold, the turn in the tide. I stand here on the shoulders of humanity, a mere instrument of Time.
– Govinda Shauri”
Source: Kurukshetra
“No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.”
“No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.”
“No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.”
“No one places any trust in the words of the Americans.”
“No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.”
“No one player is as good as the sum of a team”
“No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.”
“No one plows the field just by thinking about it.”
Source: The New Land
“No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“No one preaches a forgiveness sermon better than an AME Zion preacher who is as wrong as mustard is on a banana. Throw the whole connection away.”
“No one predicts the future. No one tries to.”
“No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.”
“No one prepares to lose ... we prepare to win.”
“No one prepares you at 7 years of age to have your father tell you he is a criminal - you are still a kid and you are thinking about playing and having fun, things that have little to do with reality. This forces you to grow and mature before due time.”
“No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.”
“No one promised you there would be universal justice.”
“No one provokes me with impunity.”
“No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.”
“No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.”
“No one questioned "who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Muslim (Bosniak)" we were all one people, that's how it was back then, and I still think it is that way today.”
“No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.”
“No one reaches a high position without daring.”
“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.”
Source: The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
“No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility”