N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation”
Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc
“No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.”
Source: Sources
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
Source: Law and Order
“No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.”
“No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.”
“No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.”
Source: Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America
“No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man”
Source: The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909
“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.”
“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.”
“No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.”
Source: The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition
“No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.”
Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage
“no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.”
“No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!”
Source: The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity
“No person writes to win awards.”
“No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.”
Source: The Greening of America
“No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.”
“No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.”
“No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it”
“No personality (prakruti) is a waste, but you have to discover what it is useful for. You do not have to keep saying, ‘You do not know how to make this sweet. You do not know how to do this and how to do that.’ But, instead discover what he knows.”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
“No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.”
“No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.”
“No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.”
“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.”
“No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.”
“No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.”
“No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.”
Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed
“No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.”
Source: Redburn.His First Voyage
“No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.”
“No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.”
“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”
“No photograph records
that day's unmaking roar.
Things ripped from skins,
words from definitions.
Letters distilled until
incomprehensible,
whistles, clicks, thrummed dipthongs
an underwater song
too deep for human ears.
From "Uh-Oh”
Source: Deniability
“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
“No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras”
“No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged.”
Source: Halsman at work: Philippe Halsman and Yvonne Halsman
“No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.”
Source: Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative
“No phrases are more commonly used in American English (and culture) than, ‘it is what it is,’ and ‘do what you gotta do!’ The first phrase indicates the acceptance of or resignation to a situation that cannot be changed. The second phrase is a way to say that you need to do what you need to do to take care of your problems. Yet, it is also well known in American culture that, no matter what, you must always ‘play it safe!’ This is precisely the problem we are dealing with—the fact that most people are suffering but also are advised to play it safe. Yet, are we safe? If we consider the mental, intellectual, and cultural costs that come with ‘playing it safe’, is anyone ever safe?”
“No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.”
“No physical contact means no sex."
"Ever?" Liam didn't like ultimatums. "What if you beg for it?"
"I have never begged for sex in my life."
A slow, sensual smile spread across his face. "You've never been with me."
"I'm not sleeping with you, Liam," she said firmly. "And no developing feelings, either. This is solely a business arrangement. I'll include my terms and conditions when I send you the final plan." She took a picture of the whiteboard and then wiped it clean. "I'll go get Tyler."
"Daisy?"
She looked back over her shoulder as she reached for the door. "Yes?"
"What if I beg?"
"I'll throw you a bone.”
Source: The Dating Plan
“No physical journey you take is as numerous and varied as the journeys you take in your mind!”
“No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.”
“No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.”
“No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.”
Source: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
“No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.”
Source: Modern Painters
“No picture could have more aptly described the feeling of transcendent peace that I felt that day. I was beginning to grow fond of these little love nudges that God kept sending in my direction. I used to be completely incapable of seeing these things, but I was starting to see signs like these more often. Each time I did, I felt like God was winking at me. Not in an attempt to get my attention, but as a reminder that He was near, that He would remain faithful even if I were not. I wondered how many times He’d displayed acts like this before to a blind audience?”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.”
“No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.”
“No pidas milagros. Eres la encarnación viviente de todos los milagros del mundo.”