N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.”
“Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.”
“Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to play along with singers. He exactly knows how to play with you, how to answer you about what you just sang ... On top of that, he has some great sense of humor, both as a musician and as a man. Every time I see him, I'm laughing so much. Sweets is impeccable and incomparable.”
“Nobody else in the world can play the way Scholes does. The passes he produces all over the field and the way he changes the game is brilliant. Every manager would like him. But luckily he is here and playing with us. Paul practices that all the time. When he has finished training he always goes out and shoots.”
“Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.”
“Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this kind of infinite space of imagination and you fence yourself in with all kinds of laws.”
“Nobody else is ever responsible for your situation but you. This is because you always get to choose.”
Source: Subtilus menas nekuršti sau proto
“Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.”
“Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.”
“Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.'
Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all the fashion-challenged sailors. 'I feel sorry for them, of course, but I do not see why that observation should alter my current extremely stylish course of action.”
Source: What Really Happened in Peru
“Nobody else knew it, but the creek was magic. There was one bend in particular where the banks widened to form a craggy circle; the bed beneath had been formed millions of years ago when the earth sighed and shifted and great rock slabs were brought together jaggedly, so what was shallow at the rims deepened and darkened suddenly at its center. And that's where Vivien had made her discovery.
She'd been fishing with the glass jars she'd pilfered from Mum's kitchen and kept now in the rotten log behind the ferns. Vivien stored all her treasures inside that log. There was always something to find within the creek's waters: eels and tadpoles, rusted old buckets from the gold-rush days. Once, she'd even found a set of false teeth.”
Source: The Secret Keeper
“Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old”
“Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it.”
“Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.”
“Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.”
“Nobody else will be your friend when you in pains, people will come around you when you are enjoying”
“Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I’m not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.”
“Nobody enjoys pain, but we all must endure it, it somehow leads to positive growth if perceived and treated correctly.
Surviving a Breakup
#Lizeka_Writes”
Source: Thabisile The Village Girl
“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
“Nobody escapes this world without some sort of trauma, but that doesn’t mean you get to do whatever you want because of it.”
Source: A Psalm of Storms and Silence
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
Source: Thirst for love
“Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.”
“Nobody even spoke now, for they were all stupified by the accmulation of woes-- granpa coughing and spitting black, with his old rheumatic complaint returning to dropsy, father asthmatical, his knees swollen up with water, mother and the children scarred by scrofula and hereditary anaemia. Of course all that was part of the job, and you didn't complain except when the lack of food finished you off.”
Source: Germinal
“Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.”
“Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.”
“Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.”
“Nobody ever asks a man how he gets stuff done. Nobody asks a man how he finds balance.”
“Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.”
“Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?”
“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Nobody ever became depraved all at once.
[Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]”
“Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.”
“Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.”
“Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.”
“Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.”
Source: Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars
“Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
“Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.”
Source: Shadow of the Giant
“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”
“Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.”
“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”
“Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie.”
Source: Magic Slays
“Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!”
“Nobody ever died of laughter.”
“nobody ever dies of an indignity.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.”
Source: On photography
“Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”
“Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end.
When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.”
“Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.”
“Nobody ever feels rich.”
“Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers, he said. I think that's kind of the point of them.”
Source: After You