N Quotes
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“No, this is wonderful!” Mrs. Hernandez’ face turned into a wrinkle mosaic when she smiled. “It’s not what you give, but the spirit in which you give. That’s what’s important.”
Rise was on the fast track to hell, if that was the standard. Her neighbor had trouble with a heavy box, so she reached to help, thinking it might slow her descent into the fiery pit of eternal damnation.”
Source: Uprising
“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was only to be expected. It would be inappropriate, undignified, at thirty-eight, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour and intensity of a twenty-two-year-old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a whole day to make a compilation tape, asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or T.S. Eliot or, God forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at thirty-eight, to expect a song or book or film to change your life. No, everything had evened out and settled down and life was lived against a general background hum of comfort, satisfaction and familiarity. There would be no more of these nerve-jangling highs and lows. The friends they had now would be the friends they had in five, ten, twenty years’ time. They expected to get neither dramatically richer or poorer; they expected to stay healthy for a little while yet. Caught in the middle; middle class, middle-aged; happy in that they were not overly happy.
Finally, she loved someone and felt fairly confident that she was loved in return. If someone asked Emma, as they sometimes did at parties, how she and her husband had met, she told them:
‘We grew up together.”
Source: One Day
“No. This was a crude and adolescent way of talking to the fairer gender, it rarely works. When it does work, the woman that falls for it isn’t even suitable for a satisfying sexual encounter. A good way to weed out the poor decisions and unacceptable mistakes though, and a better way to catch a horrible case of the dick rot. Trial and error. A few hit points missing is better for skill gain anyway.”
Source: Inappropriate
“No, this was no ordinary music, as transcendent as that might have been. Nor did it, despite its almost unearthly aspect, remove itself far from the world. It was alive, real, human.
And it was pain and beauty all at once.”
Source: Prince of Chandeliers
“No, this wasn’t a 1960s student riot. Out there were the streets. There were no nice dorms for sleeping. No school cafeteria for certain food. No affluent parents to send us checks. There was a ghetto riot on home turf. We already had our war wounds. So this was just another battle. Nobody thought of it as history, herstory, my-story, your-story, or our-story. We were being denied a place to dance together. That’s all. The total charisma of a revolution in our CONSCIOUSNESS rising from the gutter to the gut to the heart and the mind was here. Non-existence (or part existence) was coming into being, and being into becoming. Our Mother Stonewall was giving birth to a new era and we were the midwives.”
Source: The Stonewall Reader
“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]”
“No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.”
“No thought about the past or future can pull you away from your present peace and joy. The universe exists in this present moment. No desire can pull you away from this present peace, not even the desire to become a Buddha or the desire to save all beings. Know that to become a Buddha and to save all beings can only be realized on the foundation of the pure peace of the present moment.”
Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247
“No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. This gives rise to fundamental misperceptions, for example, that there are separate things and events, or that this is the cause of that. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought. Seen from beyond the limitation of thinking and therefore incomprehensible to the human mind, everything is happening now. All that ever has been or will be is now, outside of time, which is a mental construct.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.”
“No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.”
“No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.”
Source: Inspiration 2 Smile
“No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.”
“No thought is wise just because you have it, girl.”
Source: Moon Witch, Spider King
“No thought lives in your head rent-free.”
“No Thought,
No Concept,
No Identity,
No Personality,
No Religion,
No Country,
No I-Me-Myself,
No Me n Mine,
No Goal,
No Time,
No Search,
No Conflict,
Right Now,Right Here - I am nameless, undivided, unlimited, untouched source of life in which bodies come and go like waves in the ocean.”
“No thought which ever stirred
A human breast should be untold.”
Source: Complete Plays of Robert Browning
“No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.”
“No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one to whom it is told another fact, not an idea. The communication may stimulate the other person to realize the question for himself and to think out a like idea, or it may smother his intellectual interest and suppress his dawning effort at thought. But what he directly gets cannot be an idea. Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think.”
Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education
“No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.”
“No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.”
“No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.”
Source: When a man comes to himself
“No thoughts had I of anything,
Or at least that's what I thought;
I even thought I couldn't think,
But now I think I never thought.”
Source: At This Point in Time
“No Throat So Deep by Stewart Stafford
“I'd like you to meet Mrs Koch-Gobbelaar,”
I weighed up the overture long and hard,
"I'm licking my lips without drool!" I replied,
“Amazeballs!” he said, “Tonight, you'll meet.”
We came early, but she didn’t take umbrage,
“Spread out all over my ballroom,” she said,
She told us how the rooms were hanging,
Up the elevator shaft to the top floor and left.
Mrs Koch-Gobbelaar made vegetarian claims,
But we found her smuggled stash of beef jerky,
Her ex-husband split and became a eunuch,
He died bone-tired with limp alibis on his urn.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.”
Source: The American Claimant
“No Throne, No Kingdom (The Sonnet)
I need no throne, I need no kingdom,
Human hearts are my heavenly abode.
I need no badge, I need no scepter,
Reason is my partner, warmth my zip code.
I need no praise, I need no offering,
A life of service is my paradise.
I need no reward, I need no award,
Nothing can put a price on sacrifice.
I know no etiquette, I know no manners,
These are all constructs of shallowness.
Humanity ought to drive behavior,
Humility destroys all narrowness.
To forge wholeness and sanity is our mission.
Ending all falsity let's be incarnate integration.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“No tic-tac: passado e futuro
Grades da realidade vigente...
Onde sombras lentas, se movem.
Prisões do corpo, ilusões da mente!”
Source: ...
“No tiene propósito alguno martillar hierro frío.”
Source: The Dermis Probe
“No tiene sentido propugnar la militancia cuando la población no está lista para ella, y para conseguir que lo esté no hay mayor secreto que el trabajo paciente. Puede resultar frustrante, si se considera que las amenazas existenciales son inminentes y muy reales, pero, en cualquier caso, se trata de etapas preliminares que no se pueden saltar.”
Source: Internacionalismo o extinción
“No tienes idea. No quieres tenerme de enemiga.”
“No tienes la obligación de ser la misma persona que eras hace un año, hace un mes, o incluso hace 15 minutos. Tienes derecho a evolucionar.”
“No tienes la obligación de ser la misma persona que eras hace un año, hace un mes, o incluso hace quince minutos. Tienes derecho a evolucionar.”
“No tienes por qué sufrir en soledad cuando sabes que alguien te ama.”
Source: Anatema
“No tienes que hacer algo que no quieres, mi mamá me decía que las cosas no salen bien así.”
Source: Ella Es Él, Él Es Ella Volumen 3: Una Transformación por amor [Serie Ellos Son]
“No tienes que ser el puto Sun Tzu para saber que la verdadera batalla no consiste en matar, ni siquiera en herir al otro, sino en asustarlos lo suficiente para que lo deje.”
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“no time ago
or else a life
walking in the dark
i met christ
jesus)my heart
flopped over
and lay still
while he passed(as
close as i’m to you
yes closer
made of nothing
except loneliness.”
“No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces”
“No time for Freudian bullshit now. Just smile.”
Source: In Limbo
“No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.”
“No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians.”
“No time for jokes," Nakamura said. "Is Neil there?"
"Let's just say I'm Sleeping Beauty's personal assistant right now."
"I guess that makes you Waking Ugly?"
"I thought you said this was no time for jokes. That was a joke, right?”
Source: Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction
“No time for monsters.”
Source: Run Harry, Run
“No time for poetry but exactly what is.”
Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956
“No time for romance, no time for rigidity, no time for rituals - only sacrifice - that's what's needed!”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“No, time has silverted the dark sheen of her hair, and thickened her body, and lined the corners of her eyes and her lips.
He saw in them the hints of the smile he loved, and knew, to be fair, that time had been no kinder to him. Or perhaps, it had been just as kind; for she did not look the part of a young girl, and she was not: she was stronger, wiser, and more just than the fear of youth allowed; she gave him the shelter that he needed, on the rare occasions that that need drove him. She trusted him, always; she looked up to him, still; he strove, in every way, to continue to live up to her expectation. She was the one person in his life he did not wish to disappoint.”
Source: The Broken Crown
“No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down!”
“No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.”
“No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.”
Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
“No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew