N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.”
“No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition horizons, perhaps they'd see the titans of humanity for what they were: tiny creatures, smaller than insects, and in the scale of things, every bit as insignificant.”
“No wonder the success rate for resistant hosts was so low here on Earth. Once we learned to love our human host, what hope did we souls have? We could not exist at the expense of one we loved. Not a soul. A soul could not live that way.”
Source: The Host
“No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.”
“No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.”
Source: Personal geography: almost an autobiography
“No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the patriarchal masculinity they found so problematic. The individual men who did take on the mantle of a feminist notion of male liberation did so only to find that few women respected this shift. Once the 'new man' that is the man changed by feminism was represented as a wimp, as overcooked broccoli dominated by powerful females who were secretly longing for his macho counterpart, masses of men lost interest.”
“No wonder these people don’t believe in evolution. It obviously hasn’t worked in their favor.”
Source: Requiem for the Devil
“No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls.”
Source: Dinner on Monster Island: An Intimate Collection of Essays Exploring Queerness, Cultural Monsters, and Personal Growth
“No wonder this circuit failed. It says 'Made in Japan'.”
“No wonder we are a little frightened of our children, Beth thought. They are strange visitors from the future, emissaries from a world we will never see.”
Source: The Quiet Boy
“No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.”
“No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
Source: Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
“No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?”
“No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.”
“No wonder we never see the end of war in the world. Among individuals, it is, after all, the question of superiority of the fist.”
Source: Botchan
“No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.”
Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!
“No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.”
“No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“No wonder you guys lost.”
“no wonder you left."
Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.”
Source: Divergent
“No wonder you're such a miserable bitch. You need to go eat something and stop being so angry.”
Source: Ex-Billionaire Escort
“No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.”
Source: Questions About Angels
“No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.”
Source: Pages for You
“No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.”
Source: That Old Ace in the Hole
“No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“No word can express the effort, dedication and sacrifices a teacher put into teaching. Happy teachers day Sir with immense respect and gratitude!”
“No word can express the effort, dedication and sacrifices a teacher put into teaching. Happy teachers day to all teachers with immense respect and gratitude!”
“No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.”
Source: How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
“No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.”
“No word in the B vocabulary was ideologically neutral.
A great many were euphemisms. Such words, for instance,
as JOYCAMP (forced-labour camp) or MINIPAX Minis-
try of Peace, i.e. Ministry of War) meant almost the exact
opposite of what they appeared to mean. Some words, on
the other hand, displayed a frank and contemptuous un-
derstanding of the real nature of Oceanic society. An
example was PROLEFEED, meaning the rubbishy enter-
tainment and spurious news which the Party handed out
to the masses.”
Source: 1984
“No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.”
“No word is capable of carrying the impulses one
wants to send with it.”
“No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.”
“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
“No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."”
“No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.”
“No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.”
“No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.”
“No words for a long time. Which is fine, because even the most important ones-- I love you. I'm sorry. Forgive me? I'm here-- are only stand-ins for what you can say better without talking at all.”
Source: My Life Next Door
“No words for the passion. No words for the need.No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment.And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington.And it was glorious.”
“No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling.”
Source: The Apartment of Sex
“No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“No words to tell my students about that, or the children taken away, or the threats of violence. No way to say, Any woman who steps outside the confines of womanhood will be called a lesbian.”
Source: S/He
“No words were uttered, superfluous as such might be. They gazed at each other, deeper, deeper with each passing moment, and it was as if, Linetta thought, the pianoforte had already begun to play a melody in wordless echoes transcending the room in which they sat.”
Source: Prince of Chandeliers
“No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“No words would ever be more powerful than the presence of a friend.”
Source: Silent Kingdom
“No work begun shall ever pause for death.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book
“No work can be done without any self-interest in it. It is but a self-deception and a false consolation that a good work is done without any self-interest in it. Yes, teachers like Buddha, Jesus, Sankar, Shri Ramkrishna taught the human race. But their case was absolutely different from others as they had God’s commandment.”
“No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.”