N Quotes
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“No wealth supersedes good health, and no treasure outlasts salvation.”
“No wealthy person charges an hourly rate or has a fixed wage, they own assets and income generating investments.”
Source: Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity
“No weapon can kill your enmity but your enemy, no love can kill your enemy but your enmity”
“No weapon formed against me shall prosper”
“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“No weapon formed against you will prosper. But make no mistake, the weapon will be formed.”
“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”
Source: Hemingway on War
“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”
“No weapon in my bag? No problem—my whole bag was a weapon. Grabbing it by the strap again, I swung it off my shoulder and through the air toward my assailant with as much force as I could muster.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“No weapon is as dangerous as an idea. A weapon will kill you in that moment. A bad idea can kill you for a lifetime.”
“No weapon is sharper than will.”
“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.”
“No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.”
Source: Max (EasyRead Large Edition)
“No weapons, khalas. No one’s risking anything besides the clothes on their person,” Laith said. For once, he and Matteo were in agreement, and it was clear the vampire didn’t like it.
“Oh, we can omit those too, if you’re concerned,” he simpered.
“I would prefer to omit you altogether,” Laith replied, then pressed his lips thin, looking irritated at himself for engaging.”
Source: A Tempest of Tea
“No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.”
“No weight in her pockets and far too much heaviness in her heart.”
Source: From Sand and Ash
“No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.”
“No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.”
“No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.”
“No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.”
“No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.”
Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher
“No, what disgusted them was that they had no power over me. I no longer fit their ideal of a virgin waiting for them to claim me. That was what repulsed them. That was what they found monstrous. I wasn’t theirs anymore, and I never could be again. Naturally, violence came next.”
Source: Lucy Undying
“No. What he did out there, that wasn't okay with you. Jesus. I could see it in your eyes, your body, the way your fucking hands shook." He heaved a deep breath, like he was attempting to calm himself. "And if it wasn't okay with you, it's sure as hell not okay with me." Closer, yet. So close his chest brushed hers. "In point of fact, I have a major fucking problem with a male forcing a woman to do anything," he said, his eyes burning with molten silver. "But let me be clear, Crystal. Seeing him all over you like that would do bad things to me even if you wanted his attention. So my intentions here" --he pursed his lips and shook his head-- "they're not all honorable. Because I want you. I want you so bad I can hardly breathe.”
Source: Hard as You Can
“No, what numbed these fields, peopled with bad dreams was not the oppressive grip of a plague but rather an ailing retreat, a sort of sad widowhood. Man had started to subdue these vacant expanses, then had grown weary of eating into it, and now even the desire to preserve what had been claimed had perished. He had established everywhere an ebb, a sorrowful withdrawal. His cuttings into the forest, which were seen at long intervals, had lost their hard edges, their distinct notches: now a thick brushwood had driven its sabbath into the broad daylight of the glades, hiding the naked trunks as high as their lowest branches.”
“No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New York, they'd likely just tell him Get over it . . . Was it possible that the last month had been a kind of judgement on him for ever daring to pretend that anything meant anything at all?”
Source: City on Fire
“No, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.”
Source: The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
“No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.”
“No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again.”
“No whereto in the absence of space.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.”
Source: Snuff
“No which fish are big enough to land”
“No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.”
“No whiskey, no religion, nothing.”
Source: Pick-Up
“No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.”
“No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.”
Source: Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.”
“No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.”
“No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.”
Source: To His Coy Mistress
“No white person could possibly understand what it is like to be black in America, even someone like me, a descendant of Holocaust victims and survivors.”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“No! Who takes me, refuse that I am, and as I well deserve to be . . . shall take me, as this man does, with no art of mine put forth to lure him. He sees me at the auction, and he thinks it well to buy me. Let him! When he came to view me - perhaps to bid- he required to see the roll of my accomplishments. I gave it to him. When he would have me show one of them, to justify his purchase to his men, I require of him to say which he demands, and I exhibit it. I will do no more. He makes the purchase of his own will, and with his own sense of its worth, and the power of his money; and I hope it may never disappoint him.”
Source: Dombey and Son
“No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.”
“No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.”
“No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.”
Source: Livy: Book XXIV-XXX
“No wide road leads to God.”
“No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.”
“No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.”
Source: Shopaholic & Baby
“No wife, no horse, no mustache”
Source: The Widow's Son
“No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other”
“No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.”
Source: The Later Roman Empire
“No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.”