N Quotes
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“No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”
“No, war is never about killing the enemy. War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.”
Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders
“No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.”
“No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.”
“No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.”
“No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.”
“no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.”
“No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.”
Source: My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences
“no was a bad word in my hone
no was met with the lash
erased from our vocabulary
beaten out of our backs
till we became well-behaved kids
who obediently nodded to yes to everything
when he climbed on top of me
every part of my body wanted to reject it
but i couldn't say no to save my life
when i tried to scream
all that escaped me was silence
i heard no pounding her fist
on the roof of my mouth
begging to let her out
but i had not put up the exit sign
never built the emergency staircase
there was no trapdoor for no to escape from
i want to ask all the
parents and guardians a question
what use was obedience then
when there were hands
that were not mine inside me
- how can i verbalize consent as an adult if i was never taught to as a child”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“No water, No life.”
“No water, no life. No blue, no green.”
Source: The World Is Blue
“No waters can rise so high that God doesn’t have a boat for it.”
“No waving of enchanted wands but heightened perception. No magic objects, but a transformed and enhanced reality. No spells or chants, but the raw power of the human will to enact supernatural change upon the universal fabric. This is the kind of "magic" that fills Lords of Rainbow - elemental, organic, humanistic - an extension of reality.”
“No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.”
“No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.”
“No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.”
“No way," Eve replied. "If you're going, go big."
"Remind me to play poker with you later," Michael said. "I love a girl who'll go all in."
She hip-bumped him. "That's what you want to do with me later? Dude. Respect the dress, at least."
Michael trailed his pale fingers down her back, following the line of her spine, all the way to the red rose. Eve shivered, and her eyes went half-closed. Whatever Michael whispered in her ear, Claire thought it was probably way too personal to hear.”
Source: Midnight Alley
“No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.”
Source: Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing
“No way.” Fjor shook his head. “I stab things. I don’t discuss emotions. Stabbing is cleaner, and that’s saying something, because stabbing is generally quite messy, as far as coping mechanisms go.”
“Stabbing isn’t a coping mechanism,” I stubbornly pointed out. “It’s just murder.”
“Or relief.” Fjor pulled out one of his daggers, caressing the blade as he looked at me in this carefully considering way that made me stumble back a step. “Or a tool to keep things the way I want them,” he added slowly.
“How—” Vidrol deadpanned, glancing from Fjor to me. “How did you ever get her to kiss you?”
Source: A Castle of Ash
“No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work.
[Narrator]”
Source: Devil Is Fine
“No way. I would rather lick a toad. I would let a wicked old hag bake me into gingerbread before I married this son of a bas-ilisk who had the gall to look amused while I hyperventilated.”
Source: Spelled
“No way of knowing how language re-created a family. His own children didn't want to learn Spanish, when he had given everything to learn English.”
Source: The House of Broken Angels
“No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be.”
Source: The Accursed
“No way out of this new reality, this all-consuming motherhood. Demanding more of me than I could have imagined, the saddest happiness I've ever felt, because she's already bigger today than yesterday, already a little less mine. I'm already missing the baby she is, desperate to remember moments I'm certain to forget.”
Source: The Days I Loved You Most
“No way that was a act. She really is that gullible. She really is dumb as a sack of moondust."
"Yet very sweet."
Eve rolled her eyes toward him. "I think you have to have a penis to get that impression.”
Source: Salvation in Death
“No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he'd already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him— or, if so, what would happen when she did.”
Source: The Morganville Vampires:
“No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.”
“NO way was she crying in front of Ike. He already treated her like an overprotective big brother as it was. And that was really freaking annoying because it meant her fantasy of climbing him like a tree and having her wily way with him weren't ever coming true. Unrequited lust sucked big hairy donkey balls.”
Source: Hard as Steel
“No way you're calling Ben. We already have a plan. Were going to his house, and I'm going to ring the doorbell with some fake lab work for Chemistry, and then Taylor is going to set off his car alarm while I year through his room looking for evidence."
"Wow. Great plan, Kate. Just out of curiosity, what exactly are you planning on doing when he comes back to his room to find you knee-deep in his secret Brotherhood bullshit?" Liam spat his words at me like nails.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Do you have a better idea? Ooh, I know. Maybe you could call you're brother and have him light his garage on fire or something.”
Source: The Lies That Bind
“No way! Let me tell you, I'm no Elvis. Elvis had his time. I'm Vanilla Ice, and it's my turn now.”
“No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.”
“No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.”
“No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“No, we absolutely should do it. If we can capture such a motherlode, it could make a pivotal difference in the coming war. We need it. AEGIS needs it, my mother needs it. This is why we’re here.
“I’m merely pausing at the precipice of the cliff, peeking down into the chasm and asking, ‘Are we sure?’ So…” Alex eyed him wearing an uneasy grimace “…are we sure?”
Source: Relativity
“No, we are getting ahead of our story, and only an jackass would do that”
“No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.”
“No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps we're worse.”
“No we can't cast ourselves as liberals.”
“No, we do it for the money.
'And, because we above all must know the value of a human life, we do it for a great deal of money.
'There can be few cleaner motives, so shorn of all pretence.
'Nil mortifi, sine lucre. Remember. No killing without payment.'
He paused for a moment.
'And always give a receipt,' he added.”
Source: Pyramids
“No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year
as the flowers do; an immemorial sap
flows up through our arms when we love.
(Siehe, wir lieben nicht, wie die Blumen, aus einem
einzigen Jahr; uns steigt, wo wir lieben,
unvordenklicher Saft in die Arme.)”
“No, we don’t feel anything. We consciously pass through the door we have to enter, and the fact we have to enter it is enough to put us to sleep.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“No, we’re talking Brad and Johnny need to bow down and recognize,” Jacque answered.”
Source: Prince of Wolves
“No. We’ve never met any actresses–or actors, for the matter of that–until Sir Charles came to live here. And that,” added Mrs. Babbington, “was a great excitement. I don’t think Sir Charles knows what a wonderful thing it was to us. Quite a breath of romance in our lives.”
Source: Three Act Tragedy
“No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“No - we will not conquer the heavens. Enough to have the power. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.”
Source: The Revolt of the Angels
“No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”
“No
wealth
Can
replace
health.”
“No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance”