N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.”
“No one was created in vain”
“No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.”
“No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitate such men by my own joyousness or luminosity.When I break glasses in a night club, as the Russians do, when my unconscious breaks out in wild rebellions, it is against life which has crippled these idealistic, romantic men. I respect these men, cold, pure, faithful, devoted, moral, delicate, sensitive, and unequal to life, more than I respect the tough-minded ones who return three blows to one received, who kill those who hurt them.”
“No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.”
“No one was ever given an award for making a bad situation worse.”
“No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.”
“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”
“No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.”
“No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.”
Source: Practical Truths
“No one was ever scolded out of their sins.”
“No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.”
“No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.”
Source: Scottish Hard Bastards
“No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.”
“No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.”
Source: The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
“No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.”
“No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So many homilies on faith were ruined once you no longer required it for belief.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.”
“No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.”
Source: Decision Points
“No one was my master- but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“No one was normal, not really.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.”
“No one was placed on this earth without a purpose. Everyone matters.”
“No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the military wine cellar. Even junior officers travelled with as many as forty servants—ranging from cooks and sweepers to bearers and water carriers. According to Major General Nott, who had to work his way up through his career without the benefit of connections, patronage or money and who looked with a jaundiced eye on the rich young officers of the Queen's Regiments, it was already clear that the army was not enforcing proper military austerity. Many of the junior officers were already treating the war as though it were as light-hearted as a hunting trip—indeed one regiment had actually brought its own foxhounds with it to the front.”
Source: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
“No one was pretty the way Snowflake was. Everything around her faded, like a poem with burned edges. She was the lyrics inside it, so focused and sharp.”
Source: Bane
“No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.”
Source: The great crash, 1929
“No one was safe from Terry Hanlon's wit and humour. He was much loved by polo players all over the world.”
“No one was there, he realized. The room was his. He felt the creature inside him--which he pictured as slight and raggedy and lemur-like, quick-reflexed and ready to sprint, its dark wet eyes forever scanning the landscape for future dangers--relax and sag to the ground.”
“No one was there – or if there was, He/It was cowering from her. God had turned His face away, and why not? This horror was as much His doing as hers.”
“No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir.”
“No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.”
Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“No one wearies of benefits received.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)
“No one wears buckles anymore, and I decided to get him some real boots next winter solstice.Some sexy guy boots. Yeah.”
Source: Black Magic Sanction
“No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?”
“No one went looking for adventure; they chased it away.”
Source: The Beginning of Everything
“No one went out for shoes that deliberately pinched, gave you blisters or pain. I had simply fallen in love with the shoes...”
Source: Stilettos For Me, Please!
“No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.”
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
“No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'”
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”
“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
“No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.”
Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
“No one who cooks cooks alone.”
“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
“No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.”
“No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.”
“No one who errs unwillingly is evil.”
“No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.”
“No one who ever impacted another person's life is ever truly dead, they're just as alive as they were when they went into the other room.”