N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No. That's not true. There was once warmth between us. We shared a jar of wine in a garden; we huddled under an unbrella in the rain. But you've forgotten it all, and I can't remind you it happened anymore.”
Source: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun Novel Series. Set of 6 Books Set (Vol. 1 - Vol. 6) by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
“No. That would not be him. He would not die on a battlefield, choking on blood and honor without making any difference at all.”
Source: Colors of Fear
“No. The Book of Regrets is getting lighter. There's a lot of white space in there now...It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.'
'Barriers?'
'Yes. You have a lot of them. They stop you from seeing the truth.'
'About what?'
'About yourself. And you really need to start trying. To see the truth. Because this matters.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“No! The E aisle!"
"B?" Violet asked, finding it difficult to hear over the sounds of the cabinets.
"E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!"
The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?”
Source: The Hostile Hospital
“No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.”
Source: The House of Silk
“No, the great thing about selfie sticks is that they send annoying people out into the world with a built-in means with which to thrash them. -Bucky Katt”
Source: Catabunga!: A Get Fuzzy Collection
“no, the judgement of the law doesn’t weigh our actions in the end, in the end it’s a force you don’t understand. hellfire and eternal torment lie at all our doors. man can try and wash the stains of blood from his clothes, but they’ll never wash from his conscience, and they’ll shine red as the dawn before the gates of judgement.”
Source: The Exodus
“No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devestated her resolve, every single time she saw it.”
Source: Illusions
“No, the majority of people just survive, they think their things have a value but nothing does. Things only have a price, based on expectation, and I do business with that. The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there’s no negotiating with that.”
Source: The Deal of a Lifetime
“No! The mission was to terminate one Hipo officer. Not four by random. You didn’t get him so the operation was a failure.”
Johannes aka ‘BB’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
Source: The Informer
“No, the moon isn’t there when Brahman doesn’t look at it.”
“No, the problem in the church is not strong women, but rather weak men who feel threatened by strong women, and have tried various means, even by dubious exegesis, to prohibit them from exercising their gifts and graces in the church.”
“No, the sadness will soften, its edges will become less rough. In time missing him will be the way you love him.”
Source: The Witch of Painted Sorrows
“No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?”
Source: Shotgun Lovesongs
“No.” The smile had left Sarah’s voice. “He still works for the Basij. Beware of weak men, little sister. He never returned to help, not even to express condolences for Father. Find a strong man. Get a man who will stand up for you, even if it means he has to fight the whole world. There is nothing more dangerous than a weak man.”
“No. The soul is embodied. And that’s either the reason we’re all so fucked up or the recurring melody behind humanity’s greatest hits. You want another beer?”
Source: Our Lady of the Highway
“No.” The word burned in his mouth and sizzled on his tongue. “A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand.” His last words were with finality, his eyes no longer sparked. “I think, I too have known
autumn too long.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.”
“No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.”
Source: The Cross of Christ
“No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.”
Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce
“No theories, no philosophies, no ceremonies, all that the world needs is your unbound determination and unbending dignity in the course of assimilation.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.”
“No theory changes what it is a theory about. Nothing is changed because we look at it, talk about it, or analyze it in a new way. Keats drank confusion to Newton for analyzing the rainbow, but the rainbow remained as beautiful as ever and became for many even more beautiful. Man has not changed because we look at him, talk about him, and analyze him scientifically. ... What does change is our chance of doing something about the subject of a theory. Newton's analysis of the light in a rainbow was a step in the direction of the laser.”
“No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.”
Source: Against Method
“No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts. Let's just keep it that way for a while." "So you don't really have a theory?" "Clueless." "You lying bag of fish heads." "I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?" "I'm not getting paid." "See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact.”
“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”
“No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.”
“No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.”
Source: Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50
“No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.”
“No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.”
“No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.”
Source: God and the State
“No. There are people in this world who learned the lessons I never did, the lessons that our son has learned all too late - that you are right. There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be brought by what we give to one another, and nothing more.”
Source: Locklands
“No, there’d been another time yet. In my sleep, when he came into my bedroom and lay on top of me, and I pretended to be asleep. Correction there again: in my sleep I’d heaved ever so slightly, just enough to tell him, Don’t leave, you’re welcome to go on, just don’t say I knew.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“No, there was a better story here. He would become Yuri, let the boy do the talking for him, and when the time came, the monk would be his chosen one--a boy who came from nothing, endowed with great power.
They'd loved Alina's little fairy tale. They'd love this one too.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“No, there was nothing more to be done. They had tried not to go over the precipice, but perhaps the fall was inevitable. And it comforted her to think that the future was certainly inevitable; cause and effect would go jangling forward to some goal doubtless, but to none that she could imagine. At such moments the soul retires within, to float upon the bosom of a deeper stream, and has communion with the dead, and sees the world’s glory not diminished, but different in kind to what she has supposed. She alters her focus until trivial things are blurred. Margaret had been tending this way all the winter. Leonard’s death brought her to the goal. Alas! that Henry should fade away as reality emerged, and only her love for him should remain clear, stamped with his image like the cameos we rescue out of dreams.”
Source: Howards End
“No, there won't be any scar left on the soul. The bullet will have gone in mankind's one ear and out the other.”
“No. There wouldn't be. Time never stopped, though it often felt elastic.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“No, these individuals have had their fill. They depleted the resources of communication amongst themselves. It no longer offered excitation. They wanted a tryst, a midnight rendezvous, to be tongue-tied for an evening, not having to worry about puritanical appearances, acceptable behavior, placing place settings and feeding their children with cherubic faces. Trading paradisiacal palisades of their guarded community, the spiritless suburbia for subterranean devilry. These were philistines, not patrons of the arts. They merely wanted escapism. A stranger to fill their heads. A morally corrupt stand-up comic delivering the goods: immorality, immodesty, and obscenity. Food for thought, nutritive to their stale lives. Perhaps something they could even discuss behind locked doors, back in the privacy of their safe, secure homes.”
Source: Conversational Therapy: Stories and Plays
“No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“No, they didn’t have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today.”
Source: The Shipping News
“No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive it.”
“No, they're not blind, they're evil. They see just fine”
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
Source: 8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's
“No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”
“No thing defines a man like a love that makes him soft”
“No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“No third person is ever responsible for the relationship failure between two people.”
“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!”
“No, this is what I'll remember for the rest of my life. The first sight of Delilah's breasts. I've dreamed about them for far too long. My first wet dreams were about them, how they might look, feel, taste. I knew nothing.
She is full and ripe, the skin paler here, delicately capped with dusky-honey tips. It gets me so hot I'm shaking. My hand cups their soft, plump weight, and she shivers too. I want to say something like "Finally" or "What took us so long?" but all that comes out is the most important thing. "You're beautiful."
Her lids flutter, her breath hitching when I rub the tips of my thumbs over her silky nipples. Those sweet buds tighten, and it's all I can do not to swoop down and suck them hard. As it is, I tweak them, and she keens. The sound goes straight to my dick. "Get in my bed, Delilah. And get comfortable, because you aren't leaving it anytime soon.”
Source: Dear Enemy