N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nobody—and I mean nobody—has the right to make a person feel worthless. You should never give anyone power over your entire soul. Keep that in mind, and always remember that you have a choice to listen or to walk away because you are somebody special.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“Nobody, and I mean nobody has the right to pick your race or color for you.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.”
“Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.”
“Nobody applauds nature, yet she still glows.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed.”
“Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.”
“Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.”
“Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.”
Source: Ms. Marvel (2014-2015) #11
“Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.”
“Nobody asked the Negro what he thunk about the whole business, by the way, nor the Indian, when I think of it, for neither of their thoughts didn't count, even through most of the squabbling was about them on the outside, for at bottom the whole business was about land and money, something nobody who was squabbling seemed to ever get enough of.”
Source: The Good Lord Bird
“Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.”
“Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between?”
“Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.”
“Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it”
“Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.”
Source: The Adventures of Augie March
“Nobody at any time is cut off from God.”
“Nobody at home should feel like they are competing with somebody at work.”
“Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.”
“Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.”
“Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.”
Source: Contrarian Investment Strategies: the Next Generation
“Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.”
“Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis seventeen times in a row.”
“Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.”
“Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer's can't. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become.”
“Nobody becomes guilty by fate.”
“Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.”
“Nobody believed he was really quite born” - a proverb for a nobody (referring to Claudius)”
Source: Apocolocyntosis
“Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.”
“Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?”
“Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.”
“Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.”
Source: A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors
“Nobody believes in me more than me.”
“Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.”
“Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.”
“Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.”
Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson
“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.”
“Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.”
Source: Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House
“Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.”
“Nobody betrays you. You face the consequences of trusting the wrong people.”
“Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.”
“Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.”
“Nobody blamed Tess as she blamed herself”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.”
“Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.”
“Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does.”
“Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.”
Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings