N Quotes
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“No praying, it spoils business.”
“No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory
“No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.”
“No precipice can challenge you if you have the ability to build bridges over any kind of precipice!”
“No preguntábamos para saber, […] preguntábamos para llenar un vacío.”
“No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.”
“No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.”
“No president ever puts American lives at risk without a terrible sense of responsibility. And no American ever hears or reads of a soldier’s death without saying a silent prayer for the dead hero or thinking of the grief of the family and friends. Every young man or woman who dies represents a life with its own dreams and plans, extinguished so suddenly. But all said and done, it is our responsibility to see that (1) we never put our troops in situations where they are subject to unnecessary risk, and (2) we give them all our support at all times.”
“No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.”
“No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.”
“No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.”
“No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?”
“No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.”
“No president in American history has ever been removed from office by way of a Senate impeachment trial. A two-thirds vote requirement for conviction requires a bipartisan buy-in, which will be very difficult to achieve unless there is significant popular support in the nation. Those conditions likely existed during the latter months of the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon, but he resigned in August 1974, thereby ending the impeachment process.”
“No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.”
“No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate. . . .”
“No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.”
“No president likes leaks, but it’s worth noting candidate Trump’s path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn’t have a problem with leaks then. It’s not a moral position if you only hold it when it applies to you.”
“No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary.”
“No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.”
“No president stays in town. They all decamp. They all leave. They go back somewhere. But Obama is gonna stay there, and there's one reason why. He's not going to sit quietly by... Let's say there's a Republican elected president. He's not gonna sit quietly by and let whatever he thinks he's accomplished be unraveled. He's gonna be speaking up often about what he disagrees with, and he knows he's gonna have the media in his back pocket.”
“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.”
Source: The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4
“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.”
Source: The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4
“No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.”
“No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.”
“No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'”
“No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.”
“No pressure in this life will be too much where our Lord cannot help you. If you feel tired and worn out constantly it is because you have been weary walking in the desert without the refreshing streams of prayer and abiding with the Lord.”
“No pressure is greater than God's power.”
Source: Character Counts: Build a Life That Pleases God
“No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.”
Source: Absolute Intolerance
“No pressure, no diamonds.”
“No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.”
“No pressuring them, Aunt Jennie,” Marion admonished with a straight face but laughing eyes. “They don’t like being hurried. They’re likely to baulk like mules and wait until they’re thirty.”
“Jeepers, I hope not!” Frances cried, halting her knife and fork’s work at some beef. “I’m tired of waiting and guessing their intentions. I’ve been doing that for seven months. I just want to see them married!”
Everett grinned. “So do I.”
Source: Suit and Suitability
“No pretendo hacer aquí la adivinación de la historia futura (esto ya sería caer en la infame postura de la pseudociencia), pero si seguimos una idea encontrada en Tlön, Ukbar, Orbis Tertius del argentino Jorge Luis Borges, y partimos de la premisa de que el pasado es recuerdo presente y el futuro es esperanza presente—siendo el presente indefinido—, el asunto aparentemente místico de hablar sobre el desarrollo futuro de la cultura y el poder de la ideología transhumanista para crear un futuro posthumano se desvanece, pues si el pasado y el futuro son atisbos del presente, entonces los actos y actores presentes son los que se deben estudiar.
Y si en nuestro presente, siempre indefinido, se sigue debatiendo los riesgos existenciales de la inteligencia artificial como si se hablaran de armas nucleares y de la bioética como un pulseo político entre posturas ideológicas, entonces no debe ser místico ni extraño que inclusive, desde la periferia caribeña, se escriba sobre esta temática poco debatida, pero cuyo ideario permea cada vez más nuestra infraestructura de las telecomunicaciones, la política y los avances médicos.
Después de todo, la sociología tuvo su origen en la postura antihistórica de tratar de dilucidar el devenir, todo esto desde una jerarquización de las ciencias al modo positivista. Aunque ahora ya no existe el antropocentrismo recalcitrante de antaño, y aunque ya se acepta el paradigma de complejidad y la indeterminación como parte de nuestro ideario científico, el móvil y epifenómeno de la sociología (que es el estudio de grupos, instituciones y la sociedad) no ha cambiado demasiado: ser capaces de entender el devenir de los procesos sociales y así saber su posible impacto cultural, social y político.”
Source: Transhumanismo, un tipo de posthumanismo: Ensayos sobre transhumanismo y el debate bioético acerca del mejoramiento humano
“No pretendo que consientas mis palabras, de ser así, las escribiría de manera que pudieras comprenderlas.
Sólo espero que las conserves, y las mantengas a la mano, o frescas en tu memoria, para que el día en
que seas capaz de aceptarlas,
te sean útiles.”
Source: The wrong apple
“No pretendo sermonear, pero si eres periodistas (todavía más si eres jefe) vas a estar solo.”
Source: Cada Mesa, Un Vietnam
“No pretendía responderla. A veces no hay respuesta. La vida es una entidad compleja y nadie, ni seres demoníacos ni cósmicos, deciden quién vive y quién muere. La vida es demasiado intrincada para que un ente tenga el poder de determinar su curso.”
Source: El Chacal
“No pretendían causar al mundo daño alguno, pero si eran atacados, debían golpear, debían estar sobre aviso y descargar sus golpes con toda fuerza, debían mostrar que cuando dos se unen, las mayorías no triunfan.”
Source: Maurice
“No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.”
“No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when national barriers will no longer exist and all mankind will live in brotherhood and concord. Until then, the nations must narrow their aspirations to achieve a tolerable modus vivendi.”
“No prey can bribe its way out of the hunter’s hand.”
“No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“No price is too great to pay for inner peace.”
Source: Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy
“No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now.”
Source: Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy
“No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.”
“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
“No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.”
“No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately it can't be saved, because of the mathematics that are involved.”
“No priest can experience repentance and forgiveness of sin unless him himself falls into sin.”
Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop
“No Priest No Prostitute (The Sonnet)
In my eyes there is no priest,
No prostitute, only people.
In my eyes there is no pope,
No pedestrian, only people.
In my eyes there is no royalty,
No subject, only people.
In my eyes there is no leader,
No follower, only people.
There is no intellectual,
No layman, only people.
In my eyes there is no superior,
No inferior, only people.
Hierarchy is malarkey maintained by fools.
Oneness maketh civilization across silly schools.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather