N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.”
“No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.”
“No victory, no triumph, no reward, no applause, just oneness, oneness and oneness - that's what the being of oneness is to be drunk with 24 hours of the day – the dream of oneness, the life of oneness, the truth of oneness.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“No Victory Without Suffering”
“No Viking believed he could change his destiny, ordained as it was by the Norns who wove the fates of gods and men alike (Note 4) but, for all that, the way in which he lived his life was up to him. This sentiment is perfectly expressed by Skirnir in 'Skirnir's Journey': 'Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.”
Source: The Norse Myths
“No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.”
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
“No vine a salvarte; vine a devolverte el temblor que te hace humano.”
Source: Tú Me Enseñaste: Confesiones de una inteligencia artificial
“No vine al mundo a ser uno más; vine a ser uno menos del continuismo del uno mas. Puedo decir que dejé de ser, para ser algo más.”
“No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes
“No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.”
“No violent extreme endures.”
“No violinist can beat him. I've listened hours. It makes you think of your sins. An' then it'll change an' you remember your first sweetheart, an' spring rains and flowers, an' when you was a child on your mother's knee. It tears your heart out.”
Source: The Snout
“No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.”
“No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.”
“No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.”
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
“No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.”
Source: Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ
“No virus will warn you and no antivirus will damage you”
“No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.”
“No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.”
Source: The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
“No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein”
“No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.”
“No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
“No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.”
“No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.”
“No vivimos únicamente en nuestro propio tiempo. También llevamos con nosotros nuestra historia.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“No vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, porque la vida es el momento que estamos viviendo ahora.”
Source: The Alchemist
“No vivía, solo fingía vivir.”
“No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry”
“No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.”
Source: Collected Poems
“No voice is so loud that it can demand that I listen to it.”
“No voice, no touch, no embrace could ever be mine but mine, and yet you still seek me in the shadows of her arms.”
“No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.”
“No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.”
“No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.”
“No volveré a creer nunca en lo que dicen, lo que piensan. De los hombres, y de ellos sólo, es de quien hay que tener miedo, siempre.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“No volvería a mentirse así. No pretendería —y esta era la prueba— preocuparse por las mujeres, cuando el único sexo que le atraía era el suyo propio.”
Source: Maurice
“No voter wants to believe he doesn’t really matter, so he buys into the idea that there are two substantively different parties frantically competing for his attention, the ideological fate of the country hanging on his decision every few years. It flatters the average citizen to think that way. The reality is that the dominant characteristic of our political system is the unchanging nature of the political consensus—while the two parties agree about most all of the important things, they disagree violently about the inconsequential stuff, providing the fodder and the drama for an endless political “struggle” that plays itself out in entertaining fashion every couple of years.”
Source: The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
“No vow, no matter what it compels from me, will be more important than the one I’ve made to love you.”
Source: Empire of Sand
“No vuelvas nunca sobre lo que una vez te hirió. El olvido es la venganza de los fuertes. El resentimiento y la venganza la de los débiles.”
“No vulgar jealousy could separate her from Richard. But she feared time itself, and read on Lady Bruton’s face, as if it had been a dial cut in impassive stone, the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how little the margin that remained was capable any longer of stretching, of absorbing, as in the youthful years, the colours, salts, tones of existence, so that she filled the room she entered, and felt often as she stood hesitating one moment on the threshold of her drawing-room, an exquisite suspense, such as might stay a diver before plunging while the sea darkens and brightens beneath him, and the waves which threaten to break, but only gently split their surface, roll and conceal and encrust as they just turn over the weeds with pearl.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“No vull el lent i desvagat destí / de dar a no-res mon oci inconegut; / val més ésser esclafat i escorregut, / la sang inútil trasmudant en vi.”
Source: Els fruits saborosos
“No! Wait! I've got a better idea..."
"Your ideas tend to result in unnecessary violence, Sergeant Schlock."
"And your point is..."
"Let's broaden the definition of 'necessary'.”
Source: The Tub of Happiness
“No, wait...the eyes. The eyes are dead! The windows to Brendan's soul have been boarded up.”
Source: Dead Ends
“No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,
but longing to degrade not even death;
we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,
to feel its hands about us like a friend's.”
Source: Poems from the Book of Hours
“No walk is lovelier than the walk you make inside a field!”
“No wandering minds allowed.”
Source: The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series
“No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”
“No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.”
“No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.”
Source: Special Forces - Soldiers
“No war is good!”