N Quotes
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“No one to hate except the slim fish of memory
that slides in and out of my brain.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
“No one to hear, you might as well scream.”
“No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.”
Source: McTeague
“No one to mourn you in death meant no one to hurt you in life.”
Source: The Undertaker's Assistant
“No one today can credibly claim to know how the future will turn out. I have been told that while all frogs begin their lives as tadpoles, not all tadpoles become frogs. It seems that in certain artificially controlled environments - and who will deny that our environments are increasingly artificial - some will remain tadpoles their entire lives. At this point in our cultural history we are becoming like the tadpoles of a new kind of humanity. It remains to be seen of one day we will become frogs.”
Source: Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Survival in fact is about the connections between things; in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes [that] inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter).”
Source: Culture And Imperialism
“No one today knows what is indecent.”
“No one told her Trader Joe's sold Advent calendars for cats. She found out on her own, rolling her card down the pet food aisle. She saw the bingo-like jumble of numbers on the box and stopped, her face betraying first confusion and concern and then honest astonishment. The picture on the front was a Christmas tree of cats. Behind each cardboard door waited salmon and dried seaweed treats in holiday shapes. It made absolutely no sense, and she knew she had to buy one for Oscar.”
Source: Evensong
“No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.”
“No one told me holy water had chlorine in it.”
Source: Wolves Among Sheep
“No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.”
“No one told me
that bitterness can grow on trees
and still feel like home.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.”
“No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.”
“No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?”
Source: Addicted to You
“No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents.”
Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
“No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend." "We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“No one touched the pumpkin foot, except me. I cut a huge slice and dug in. To my surprise, it tasted musty and earthy, just how I imagined the flavor of the color brown would be...”
Source: The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
“No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.”
“No one trans story is better or inherently more “radical” than another, but that hasn’t stopped cisgender media culture from deeming certain trans stories to be more valuable than others. Those of us who don’t fit the classical narrative end up either having our stories edited and reedited until they fit, or end up having our voices silenced. And that’s fucked. At its best, this narrative is just an oversimplification of the trans community. At its worst, this narrative is used as a tool—reinforced by cisgender editors, curators, movement leaders, and gatekeepers—that continues to pressure trans people into fitting into one of two binary genders. By showing how desirable it is to be gender conforming and “pass” as a man or as a woman, this narrative reiterates the idea that gender nonconforming trans people are less-than and should be lucky to be treated as the gender with which we identify.”
Source: Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
“No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.”
“No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.”
“No one truly becomes poorer by letting go of negativity. Because everyone feels more blessed and thankful by paying more attention to the good always present in every situation.”
“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.”
“No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.”
“No one truly leaves your life; they linger in different ways. Some stay alive in dreams, others in memories. In one form or another, they’re always with you”
“No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows. But what they won't tell you is I fought for Simeneon. I fought for the maintenance of quality. I don't believe in lyin.”
“No one trusts politicians, and why would they? Wallis has been making empty promises for years in the hopes that one of them might come through, and there isn't a chance in hell any of them could. I, on the other hand, offer the ideaof more. No guarantees, merely that faint glimmer of optimism that change might come. It doesn't even matter at this point what the change might be. They're so desperate.they don't care. They don't even think to ask.
Perhaps the key is staying calm while others panic.”
Source: The Elite
“No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre”
“No-one try anything. Sure ye know what happens if ye disobey.”
Source: Mara's Awakening
“No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.”
“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential
“No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.”
“No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed.”
“No one understands better than I do the feelings of people who are unsuited to the world into which they have been born. Some have ended up in the wrong body, others in the wrong place. Their misfortune is blamed on a flaw in their personality, when in fact they have merely gone astray in a place they shouldn’t have been.”
Source: The Life of Elves
“No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.”
“No one understands me better and no one can make me laugh the way Bill does. Even after all these years, he is still the most interesting, energizing and fully alive person I have ever met.”
Source: Living History
“No one understands me!" This phrase is part of me, and as unlikely as it may seem, there's a kernel of truth in it. Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. If only I had someone who took my feelings seriously. Alas, I haven't' yet found that person, so the search must go on.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.”
“No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.”
“No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.”
“No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.”
“No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.”
Source: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“No one understands what it is like to be in a relationship with a narcissist abuser. You cannot learn about this situation by merely reading books or interviewing others. Only those who have personally experienced understand its insidious nature.”
“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”
“No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.”
“No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.”
“No one vinces me, baby”
“No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.”
“No one wakes up and says they want to be a gangbanger or a drug dealer- that's the last stop on the train. That what you do when you're drowning and reaching out for something- anything- to survive. By the time they get to the corner, there has been a series of things that led to that decision. No one wakes up at the top of the mountain and decides they would like it better down there on the bottom. They end up there out of desperation. We don't spend enough time examining the wider picture, the steps that get them there. We don't tell that part of the story. And to tell half the story is to spread a lie.”
Source: Scenes from My Life: A Memoir