N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No pain is unbearable," he said, "except that of regret.”
Source: My Lord Monleigh
“No pain, no creation. No pressure, no diamond.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“NO PAIN....no gain”
“No pain, no gain." You can hear the phrase in the world of physical exercise and conditioning. Muscles that feel no pain are probably getting neither stronger, nor more flexible. It presents an analogy for the exercise of the heart. Those who run the risk of genuine love alone must worry about emotional pain. The more friends; the more good-byes - and the more wakes to attend, the more graves to visit, the more deaths to share. Those who truly live life to the fullest will bear the full cup of suffering. Only those who are willing to pay the price in pain and anguish find life full to the brim. Happy people also suffer; they are no more lucky than the rest. They create their own happiness. That's the rule of thumb.
Some thumbs, however, don't seem to rule very well. Slogans and catch-words, for all their conventional wisdom, fail to carry the whole weight of truth; they leave too much room for false inferences. "No pain, no gain" may leave one with nothing but pain - an intolerable amount of it. There is simply no guarantee that pain will bring gain, that hardship will yield happiness, that suffering will make one a better person. It may; but it's not inevitable.”
Source: She Never Said Good-Bye
“No Pain, No Hope (The Sonnet)
Heavier the pain, greater the hope,
But the language of hope is not inaction.
Real hope brings a sense of responsibility,
Whereas imitation hope induces stagnation.
Heavier the pain, stronger the purpose,
But all purpose is fiction without footwork.
Real purpose does not let you sleep at night,
Imitation purpose keeps you aloof from work.
Crueler the punishment, braver the love,
It is no love that avoids punishment.
Only half lovers try to keep pain at bay,
Soaked in pain true lovers emerge triumphant.
Crazier the torture, sweeter the memories.
There is no character if there is no crisis.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“No pain, no lane - no doubt, no clarity.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“No Pain no love.”
Source: WMTv17
“No pain, no poetry.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“No pain, no progress.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.”
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.”
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”
“No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.”
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
“No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.”
“No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.”
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.”
“No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.”
“No panties for you. And no touching. I need to hear a yes, sir.”
Source: The Don's Daughter
“No paradox, no progress.”
“No paralysis, do analysis. No paralysis, do analysis!”
Source: Will
“No parece que vayáis armada, señora, pero con las mujeres uno nunca puede fiarse.”
Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole
“No parecía haber pobreza de ninguna clase, excepto en la conversación...”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“No parecía tener la fuerza necesaria para brillar con claridad”
Source: 33 razones para volver a verte
“No parecían nada más que las estructuras preliminares de un escultor: el marco de alambre, los primeros tendones de arcilla, los músculos y una delgada laca de piel. Estaban sin terminar, los ciento quince.
Tenían el color del pergamino y parecía que la piel había sido puesta a secar, extendida de hueso a hueso. Los cuerpos estaban intactos y solo habían perdido los humores acuosos.”
Source: The Next in Line
“No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.”
“No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.”
“No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.”
“No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.”
“No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.”
“No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.”
“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things.
I buried my son. In a potter's field. In a field of Blood. In empty, acrid silence. There was no funeral. There were no mourners. His friends all absent. His father dead. His sisters refusing to attend. I discovered his body alone, I dug his grave alone, I placed him in a hole, and covered him with dirt and rock alone. I was not able to finish burying him before sundown, and I'm not sure if that affected his fate ...
I begrudge God none of this. I do not curse him or bemoan my lot. And though my heart keeps beating only to keep breaking--I do not question why.
I remember the morning my son was born as if it was yesterday. The moment the midwife placed him in my arms, I was infused with a love beyond all measure and understanding. I remember holding my son, and looking over at my own mother and saying, "Now I understand why the sun comes up at day and the stars come out at night. I understand why rain falls gently. Now I understand you, Mother" ...
I loved my son every day of his life, and I will love him ferociously long after I've stopped breathing. I am a simple woman. I am not bright or learn-ed. I do not read. I do not write. My opinions are not solicited. My voice is not important ... On the day of my son's birth I was infused with a love beyond all measure and understanding ... The world tells me that God is in Heaven and that my son is in Hell. I tell the world the one true thing I know: If my son is in Hell, then there is no Heaven--because if my son sits in Hell, there is no God.”
Source: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
“No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.”
“No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.”
“No pares, no... No pares nunca de soñar.”
“No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.”
“No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.”
“No part of mathematics is ever, in the long run, "useless." Most of number theory has very few "practical" applications. That does not reduce its importance, and if anything it enhances its fascination. No one can predict when what seems to be a most obscure theorem may suddenly be called upon to play some vital and hitherto unsuspected role.”
Source: Excursions in Number Theory
“No part of me believes," I say, "that you struggle with first impressions."
He brushes his thick hair up off his forehead, and it stays there, all except that one strand, of course, which is determined to fall sensually across his eyebrow. "Maybe you make me a little nervous."
"Yeah, right," I say, spine tingling.
"Just because you don't see me grabbing a mop every time you walk into a room doesn't mean I don't notice you're there."
It feels like a bowling ball has landed in my stomach, a sudden drop. Then come the butterflies.”
Source: Happy Place
“No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
Source: Great Contemporaries
“No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.”
“No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.”
Source: The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
“No part of the world of money is more critical to our everyday lives than payments, and arguably no part of money is more ignored than payments.”
Source: The Pay Off
“No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?”
“No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.”
“No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.”
“No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.”
“No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.”