N Quotes
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“No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.”
Source: Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
“No one who goes to war ever really comes back. I had lost things, had parts of myself taken away from me, not all of me boarded the plane to come home. The war also liberated me to love those I've seen as an enemy. It gifted me with knowing what I would die for and what was worth living for; being the first to love every single time and waging peace as if my life depended on it.”
Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First
“No one who had any sense has ever liked school.”
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her to be born a heroine.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.”
Source: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
“No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.”
Source: Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments
“No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown.
And no one who has been martyred by the Jews will remain unavenged.”
“No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.”
“No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence”
Source: Love or perish
“No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'”
“No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.”
“No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.”
Source: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
“No one who has followed politics for the last decade thinking about August like quiet month for politics. There are no more quiet times or slow periods. None. Which, frankly, makes it a very good time to be a political writer.”
“No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.”
“No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.”
“No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.”
“No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.”
“No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“No one who has looked to the summit from the valley and feared has reached the top!”
“No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.”
“No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.”
Source: Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics
“No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.”
Source: Three essays on the theory of sexuality
“no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and all who see them speak in awe of their irridescent and refulgent light, of brilliant colors, or else of the unbearable whiteness of their being. You are flooded with laughter, happiness.”
Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives
“No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.”
Source: Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
“No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.”
“No one who is a friend of Pakistan must say anything that harms its reputation; anyone who dares to ask tough questions or make adverse remarks must be prepared to be categorized as Pakistan’s enemy.”
Source: Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
“No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.”
Source: The Soul of the Indian
“No one who is being himself is going to be approved of all the time. The whole world could love you, but if you do not love yourself, you would not even notice. The opposite is also true - the whole world could disapprove of you, but if you love yourself, you would not even notice. Accept yourself within you and the entire world becomes totally acceptable.”
“No one who is good can ever be ugly.”
Source: The Twits
“No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.”
“No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.”
“No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.”
Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)
“No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.”
“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
Source: East of Eden
“No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.”
“No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.”
“No one who lies is linked to God. God is the truth. He says, 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life' (Jn. 14:6). See how we sort ourselves out and what position we take up through lying ? clearly on the side of the evil one. If, therefore, we want to be saved, we must with all our hearts love the Truth and guard ourselves from every kind of falsehood so that we may not be separated from truth and from life.”
“No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.”
Source: A Gentleman Called
“No one who lives in error is free.”
“No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.”
“No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed so many image models that some people have given up trying to keep track of me. But others have only one or two ways of doing things and are successful with that.”
“No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.”
Source: Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food & Flavor
“No one who loves the woods stays on the path,”
Source: Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
“No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.”
“No one who reads and reveres the New Testament should doubt for a second that the pious poor and marginalized have something to teach all of us - including German theologian-bishops - about the truth of the Gospel and the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.”
“No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food on our tables and the gas in our cars. There is always a price to be paid, she reminds us, for the pleasures and comforts of this day. If you read only one memoir this year, this is the one to read and pass along.”
“No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.”