N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No poem of mine will, be as beautiful as the one; I create on your lips.”
Source: Caged: The Price of Pride
“No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.”
“No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.”
“No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.”
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”
Source: The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
“No poet ever wrote a poem to dishonor life, to compromise high ideals, to scorn religious views, to demean hope or gratitude, to argue against tenderness, to place rancor before love, or to praise littleness of soul. Not one. Not ever.”
Source: Rules For The Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
“No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.”
“No poet is ever really young... Their delicate ears always hear the far-off whisper of death, which coarser souls must travel towards for years before their duller senses touch....”
“No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.”
“No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”
“No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.”
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.”
Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”
Source: Selected essays
“No poetic phantasy
but a biological reality,
a fact: I am an entity
like bird, insect, plant
or sea-plant cell;
I live; I am alive.”
Source: Selected poems
“No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.”
“No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.”
“No point in climbing the Everest
while your heart is still a swamp,
no point in Voyaging with Naskar
while you carry a medieval mindset.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud.”
Source: The Host
“No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.”
Source: Never Always Sometimes
“No point in thinking about changing what's done. You are where you are now because of all the choices you've made - and I think you're doing all right these days.”
Source: The Truth About My Mother
“No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.”
“No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?”
“No point looking for something that is not looking for you”
“No poison can kill quicker than bitterness; no medicine can heal quicker than gratitude; and no remedy can cure you quicker than love.”
“No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.”
“No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.”
Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance
“No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!”
“No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.”
“No policy is worth anything outside of reality.”
“No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.”
Source: The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution
“No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.”
“No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.”
“No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.”
Source: Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49
“No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9
“No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to be done through a proper international body... not through us sub-contracting teams of mercenaries.”
“No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. Otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. Only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. Not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.”
“No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.”
Source: Politics and politicians
“No politician in power will ever advocate for nuclear disarmament - that's a fact. The so-called leaders of the world feel about nukes the same way gun-owning apes of America feel about their guns. That's why you won't find any of them talking in favor of nuclear disarmament. I’m not saying that they are all bad people, the world leaders that is, but peace requires guts, and guts requires character, and character requires an absolute denial of diplomacy.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.”
Source: Minority Report
“No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.”
“No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.”
“No politician or party favours waste and inefficiency, and every government tries to reduce both--but tax cuts on the promise of ending the gravy train almost never find enough gravy. Of course efficiency matters, waste must be attacked, and of course it matters how both taxes and spending are organized, but despite the highly publicized incidents of misspending that seem to dominate the pages of our mainstream media and disproportionately shape our perceptions, the numbers about waste never add up, and the consequences of tax cuts on public goods and services are always worse than promised.”
Source: Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada
“No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.”
“No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.”
“No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .”
“No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.”
“No pongas tu confianza en los príncipes de este mundo, puesto que sólo pensarán en su propio interés, al igual que sus gobiernos, hasta el fin de los tiempos.”
Source: The Stand
“No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.”