N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No siempre es cuestión de tiempo, si el tiempo lo curase todo, en las farmacias venderían relojes. Se trata sobre todo de superación.”
“No siempre es obligado ganar, y, desde luego, no a toda costa. A veces perder es mejor, porque permite aprendizaje”
Source: Prevenir el narcisismo: Educa a tu hijo para ser feliz, no para ser el mejor
“No siempre había que buscar lejos, a veces se encuentra muy cerca lo que se está buscando.”
“No siempre la historia que te cuentan se ciñe a la realidad que fue. Asegúrate por ti mismo y podrás valorar.”
“No siempre lo que piensas de una persona es lo que esa persona es. Concédete la oportunidad de conocer bien a alguien antes de juzgarle o te perderás a mucha buena gente por tus prejuicios.”
“No siempre lo que ves, es como crees. Mira el mar; lo ves azul, pero es transparente e incoloro. Asegúrate que lo que ves, es lo que parece y no lo que crees.”
“No siempre los imbéciles salimos tan imbéciles como el imbécil que nos menosprecia.”
Source: La edad de la punzada
“No siempre puedo controlar mis sentimientos hacia los demás, pero lo que sí puedo controlar es mi comportamiento hacia los demás.”
Source: La paradoja: Un relato sobre la verdadera esencia del liderazgo
“No siempre se saca el bien de las buenas obras ni el mal de las malas obras. Ni siquiera los sabios y los buenos pueden ver la finalidad de todas sus acciones.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.”
“No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.”
Source: Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"
"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.
"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"
"A pit full of fire."
"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"
"No, sir."
"What must you do to avoid it?"
I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“No sign of Marissa yet though I heard her clunking around in the bathroom so she was probably doing whatever girls do to make themselves presentable. Poor things. It didn't take any time at all for us guys to rejoin the world and still be our handsome selves.”
Source: The Vampire...In My Dreams
“No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.”
“No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.”
“No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.”
Source: Cat Among the Pigeons
“No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them — from global warming, to race relations, to same-sex marriage, to the extent of rape on college campuses — they will humiliate, defame, libel and try to economically crush you.”
Source: A Dark Time in America
“No. Silence is something. This is nothing. Why couldn’t I hear it before? I think it has been there always. From the beginning of time.’ He put out his hand and stubbed it on my arm, stared at it. ‘At the end of the world, at the beginning of the world; under the sea and over the sky; at the root and crown of the universe: nothing. At all. That’s what I heard. What I hear.’ He leaned forward. ‘Do you understand?”
Source: Listening at the Gate
“No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.”
Source: Poems
“No simple word
That shall be uttered at our mirthful board,
Shall make us sad next morning; or affright
The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.”
Source: Lectures and Essays
“No sin is beyond forgiveness.”
“No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.”
“No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression.”
“No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme.”
Source: The Other Daughter
“No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.”
“No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.”
“No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.”
Source: Believing God
“No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.”
Source: Poems
“No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.”
“No single act is entirely redemptive, but all a fallen man has is the first step back.”
“No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.”
Source: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
“No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.”
Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
“No single book, or expert, or field could fully explain the problems of hillbillies in Modern America. Our elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith.”
Source: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.”
“No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.”
Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.”
“No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.”
“No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.”
“No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
“No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.”
“No single feeling becomes the only feeling if you let it all happen. And the way to let it all happen is to see the value in it all, in everything. To see the way the dark might lead to the light and the way present pain might lead to future hope.”
Source: The Comfort Book
“No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact.”
“No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.”
Source: Tropic of Orange: A Novel
“No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.”
“No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.”
Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays
“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.”