N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Noah was many things, but funny was not one of them.”
Source: Let It Snow
“Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, "Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told." Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.”
“Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. You are, and always have been, my
dream.
Allie”
Source: The Notebook
“Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner!”
“Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!”
“Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.”
“Noah, if we were to get married, you couldn't date anymore.”
Source: Six Contemporary Garwood Romances Bundle: Fire and Ice, Killjoy, Murder List, Shadow Dance, Sizzle, Slow Burn
“Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.”
“Noam Chomsky is, in some ways, a victim of this new millennium we live in because you can't pull a sound bite from that guy and understand what he is talking about. You have to hear the whole paragraph. You have to hear the whole page. You've got to hear the whole conversation if you really want to understand it and that could change your life.”
“Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.”
“Noaptea era cumplită, noapte de noiembrie umedă și pâcloasă, ploioasă, cu fulguiri de nea. Purta într-însa pneumoniile, guturaiurile, febrele, tifosul, toate darurile lunii noiembrie din Saint-Petesburg.”
Source: Nebunul
“Noaptea, mi-a fost frig, m-am sculat şi m-amdus să-i mai pun încă o pătură.”
“Noatalgia Nalan believed there were two families in this world:relatives formed blood family;and friends,the water family.If your blood family happened to be nice and caring,you could count your lucky stars and make the most of it; and if not,there was still hope; things could take a turn for the better once you are old enough to leave your home sour home.
As for the water family, this was formed much later in life and was,to a large extent,of your own making. While it was true that nothing could take the place of a loving, happy blood family, in the absence of one, a good water family could wash away the hurt and pain collected inside like black soot.It is therefore possible for your friends to have a treasured place in your heart, and occupy a bigger space than all your kin combined.But those who had never experienced what it felt like to be spurned by their own relatives would not understand this truth in a million years.They would never know that there were times when water ran thicker than blood.”
Source: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Nobel kazananlardan bazıları araştırmayı bırakır ve vaktini dünyayı dolaşıp değişik toplantılara katılarak geçirir. Bazen de, Bilim, İnsanlık, Değerler, İnsan Çabası veya buna benzer soyut sözcüklerden oluşan) konularda konferans verir. Bu saygın kişilerin egoları, kendilerine imza için sunulan bir sürü manifesto ile daha da kabarır; çünkü, imzaları bu manifestoların lehine büyük ağırlık koyacaktır. Bir örnek: "Dünya ulusları bundan böyle dostluk ve uyum içinde yaşamalı ve politik anlaşmazlıkları çözmek için savaş araçları kullanmaktan vazgeçmelidir.”
Source: Advice to a young scientist
“Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.”
“Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman found that when you survey people in the moment, their happiness levels are highest while with friends...
To be fair, research by Beverley Fair shows that we're the absolute happiest when with both friends and spouses. But even within a marriage, friendship reigns. Work by Gallup found that 70 percent of marital satisfaction is due to the couple's friendship. Tom Rath says it's five times as critical to a good marriage as physical intimacy.”
Source: Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
“Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.”
“Nobelpriset påminner oss om att sann heder aldrig formas av makt, popularitet eller förutsägelser. Det oväntade kan segra — precis som när en venezuelansk oppositionsledare reste sig över världens mest dominerande gestalt, Donald Trump.”
“Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.”
Source: Killbox
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
“Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.”
Source: Tower Lord
“Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.”
“Nobility is not only in forgiveness.”
“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Nobility is shown not by the respect one is given by the highest, but the respect one gives to the lowly.”
Source: Half a War
“Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.”
“Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think
“Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.”
Source: Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading
“Nobility of blood is nobility of the jungle, modern nobility involves substance of character.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.”
Source: A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader
“Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.”
“Nobility passes through by blood, not by law”
Source: MARIA ROMANOV: After 17 July 1918
“Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.”
“Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.”
“Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.”
“Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.”
“Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.”
“Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth.”
“Noble be man, helpful and good!”
“Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.”
“Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
[It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]”
“Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.”
“Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.”
Source: Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania
“Noble character is now seldom found among those of noble birth, most of whom are good for nothing. ... Highly gifted families often degenerate into maniacs”
Source: Story of Civilization
“Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.”
Source: madame bovary
“Noble Dash has a kind master, who values his faithful dog, and who would not part with him for a pile of silver and gold, He never forgets the day when his fair-haired little Mary was washed by a big wave into the sea as’ she ran towards her ball, which Tom had thrown into the tide. Dash at the time was lying as if asleep on a heap of sea-weed a short distance off. At the cry of Mary's nurse he bounded away, and in a moment was battling in the midst of the waves. He soon had little Mary's dress held fast in the grip of his strong teeth, and swam bravely with her ashore. Good dog! who could repay him for such a noble deed? Mary's father and mother patted and praised him, and nurse and the children cried over him and hugged him, all dripping as he was from the salt sea; and that night, when little Mary was: warmly asleep in her bed, and the household met together at the hour of evening prayer, no one was surprised that Mary s father thanked God that he had made so noble a dumb creature as faithful Dash, who had saved the life of his darling child.”
Source: The Landseer series of picture books: containing sixteen coloured illustrations
“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”