N Quotes
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“No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.”
“No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.”
“No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!”
Source: The Reverse Diet: Lose 20, 50, 100 Pounds or More by Eating Dinner for Breakfast and Breakfast for Dinner
“No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.”
“No one walks so safely as one who walks humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith. For such a person gets through to the good in others (and there is good in everyone), and therefore cannot be harmed. This works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.”
“No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast.”
Source: Dubliners
“No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.”
“No one wanted to be a block leader because as soon as interrogators found out about them, they disappeared to interrogations and then to solitary confinement. The professor was smart and told brothers to make someone else block leader and he would advise them.
So they asked me. I wasn't a leader. I wasn't an instigator. I was young and, like most men my age, I was still learning; I was clever, but not wise yet. I was just a simple tribal man who couldn't sit by and watch other men and boys get abused and mistreated.”
Source: Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
“No one wanted to fall back behind so both teams wated for a mistake from the other.”
“No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.”
“no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars.”
Source: Bone Man's Daughters
“No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown”
“No one wanted to use the word 'murder' then, using instead words more apt to talking about a pest problem than a human race. Even today the United States still has not officially recognized genocide in its history.”
Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
“No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.”
“No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.”
“No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.”
“No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will always have those challenges. The other reason for adversity is to accomplish the Lord's own purposes in our life that we may receive the refinement that comes from testing. It is vitally important for each of us to identify from which of these two sources come our trials and challenges, for the corrective action is very different.”
“No one wants advice - only corroboration.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.”
“No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.”
“No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!”
Source: The writings of a savage
“No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.”
“No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.”
“No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded”
“No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.”
“No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.”
“No one wants this lonely space to murmur anymore
but it echoes & it remains a noise I learn to love immensely”
Source: [im]permanent: Poetic Abstraction
“No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.”
“No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.”
“No one wants to be a polarizer, but on the other hand, if you think you're doing right and you believe the decisions you make will lead to a better tomorrow, then they're worthy of defense.”
“No one wants to be a responsibility, Lin thought. They want to be loved.”
Source: Sword Catcher
“No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit...”
“No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.”
“No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.”
“No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.”
“No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.”
“No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.”
“No one wants to be surprised or shot down, especially in a group setting. So the person who needs an answer, if they are smart, will have already led individual members towards their side. Conversations are happening behind the scenes so that by the time the big meeting takes place, the person pitching the idea already has buy in.”
Source: What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
“No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there's some other ways.”
“No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn’t a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn’t plan to die young. Death is so boring.”
“No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.”
“No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.”
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.”
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
“No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.”
“No one wants to fight for nothing.”
Source: A Sky Beyond the Storm
“No one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack.”
“No one wants to get too close, because in my flailing, I might pull them under. People don't think straight when they're drowning, and they don't think straight when they're flooded with emotions, either.”
Source: How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain