N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nobody but a genuine grown-up was going to take her to school. If she had to, she would make a great big noisy fuss, and when Ramona made a great big noisy fuss, she usually got her own way. Great big noisy fusses were often necessary when a girl was the youngest member of her family and the youngest person on her block.”
Source: Ramona the Pest
“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”
Source: The Moviegoer
“Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.”
“Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.”
“Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.”
“Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.”
“Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.”
“Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.”
“Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!”
“Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.”
“Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.”
“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
“Nobody can be a better friend for you than yourself”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.”
“Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.”
Source: What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All
“Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.”
“Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator”
Source: Bureaucracy
“Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.”
Source: Mean Streets
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
“Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.”
Source: Night Watch
“Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.”
“Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?”
“Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.”
“Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.”
“Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.”
“Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.”
Source: Strictly personal
“Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.”
Source: The Way of the Women
“Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.”
“Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.”
Source: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works
“Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.”
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
Source: Pooh's House
“Nobody can beat the Klitschko brothers. That's why it's boring.”
“Nobody can beat the Marvellous one!”
“Nobody can become a drug addict if they're hip. Because it's obvious that if you're hip then you've got to make it. The buzz of all buzzes which is the thing that is God - you've got to be straight to get it.”
“Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.”
Source: The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic lady. Perplexed lovers. Cruel gift
“Nobody can bring you a change. You have to want to change.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.”
“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.”
“Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.”
Source: Narrow Rooms
“Nobody can change the world. But you can make a difference.”
“Nobody can change who you are, except for you.”
Source: Girl in Translation
“Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.”
“Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name.”
Source: Windows that open inward: images of Chile
“Nobody can come and be involved in the #LoveArmy unless they have a heart.”
“Nobody can commit photography alone.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man