N Quotes
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“No one said it would be easy
But no one said it'd be this hard”
“No one said life had to be easy. No one said you couldn’t opt out either.”
“No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.”
Source: Midwives: A Novel
“No one said parenting was easy,but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.”
“No one said we had to spend every waking moment together," he said, "but at the end of the day"-he leaned and kissed each of her eyebrows, in turn-"an most of the time during, there is no one I would rather see, no one whose voice I would rather hear, and no one whose mind I would rather explore.”
Source: It's in his kiss
“No one said you can't go outside the lines.”
“No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?”
“No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
Source: Sayings of Buddha
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“No-one saw her pinch the girl’s arm
Making her wince in pain and cry out
More than once, an agonising clout”
Source: Sunshine after Rain: A Collection of Poetry
“No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.”
“No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.”
“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
Source: Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
“No one says, ‘happiness saved my life,’ but inspiration saves lives every day.”
Source: Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
“No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its craftsman-player, to recur to him in thought though ignorant of him by sight. In this way the creative power, which moves and safeguards its objects, is clear to us, though it be not grasped by the understanding. Anyone who refuses to progress this far in following instinctive proofs must be wanting in judgment. But still, whatever we imagined or figured to ourselves or reason delineated is not the reality of God.”
“No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.”
“No one seemed to be around - which does not necessarily mean it was late, since it has long been my experience that no matter where you roam in the province of Nova Scotia it is usually mostly empty.”
Source: The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia
“No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen.”
“No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I didn't see you; are you all right?" The inability to speak these words, I observe, goes right along with a propensity for mindless insults.”
Source: Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion
“No one seems to notice when you're down,
Unless you are bleeding,
Unless you are bleeding,
But sometimes the worst wounds,
Are the ones you can't see”
“No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.”
“No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.”
Source: Contributions of Ten Leading Americans to Education
“No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.”
“No one sees themself as the villain in their story.”
“No one sees trees. We see fruit, we see nuts, we see wood, we see shade. We see ornaments or pretty fall foliage. Obstacles blocking the road or wrecking the ski slope. Dark, threatening places that must be cleared. We see branches about to crush our roof. We see a cash crop. But trees - trees are invisible.”
Source: The Overstory
“No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.”
“No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]”
“No one sees your strength, do they? No one sees the silent battle you fight against your overprotective mind that’s trying to keep you safe from harm by keeping you safe from risk, safe from connection, safe from honesty. Maybe others don’t see, but you see it sometimes, don’t you? In the mirror, in those eyes, begging for someone to notice. You have noticed. It is real. You are strong. You are fighting for something incredible. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise—especially not your thoughts.”
“No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.”
“No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.”
“No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.”
“No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.”
Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
“No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the capacities are present, unlike other animals, as far as is known. There's no challenge to the theory - not mine, but everyone's - that the human language faculty provides the means for generation of an infinite array of structured expressions.”
“No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
Source: In an Absent Dream
“No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.”
“No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.”
“No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.
Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.”
“No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.”
Source: Selected poems
“No one shares your fingerprint—you were crafted beautifully and uniquely. Honor that gift by becoming the best version of yourself, and competition fades to silence.”
“No one, she thought, had ever understood the nature of love…how love went beyond flutters in the heart, pining and yearning, or even beyond hatred and loathing. Love runs blood deep; permanent, inescapable.”
Source: Requiem For The Fallen
“No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.”
“No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.”
“No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.”
“No one should be able to tail me unnoticed, no matter how good they are.I'm supposed to be better.”
Source: Evenfall
“No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.”
Source: The Loony-bin Trip
“No one should be afraid of a jackbooted squad coming and taking them away from the country that is their home.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“No one should be afraid to be themselves.”
“No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.”
“No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.”