N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nobody goes anywhere
though we are always leaving and returning. It's a ceremony.
Sunrise occurs everywhere, in lizard time, human time, or a fern
uncurling time.”
Source: An American Sunrise
“Nobody goes no contact with a loving, caring, gentle, safe family. They end toxic relationships because all the other alternatives were exhausted and unsuccessful. They broke connections to abusive people because it was their last resort.”
Source: Toxic Siblings: A Survival Guide to Rise Above Sibling Abuse & Heal Trauma
“Nobody goes that deep. Everybody is so awestruck by this exterior beauty that they never think further—including me. After I fuck you in ten different positions to the content of my heart, there always comes a moment when the rate of return diminishes. After fucking you a thousand times, you’ll be just another girl. A woman, to me. Have you ever heard the phrase that no matter how beautiful a woman is there is always a man tired of fucking her. Then what?
Then comes the void. The empty. The nothing.
I am afraid of that shallow, because I know you... but I really don’t know you.”
Source: Beyond Passion and Dreams: Two Souls. One Fire. No Survivors.
“Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.”
“Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.”
“Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.”
“Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.”
“Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.”
“Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can you picture that?" "In Technicolor," Amy said bitterly. "That low-down KGB reject!" Dan fumed. "I can't believe she cheated me–right when I was in the middle of cheating her!”
“Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.”
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
“Nobody grows up mythless. It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.”
“Nobody had a bigger heart or passion to win than America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine "Pre." Watch the movies Prefontaine, Without Limits, or Fire on the Track to see what I'm talking about.”
“Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.”
“Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one”
Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition
“Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.”
“Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no support from the health clinics with their problems. Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families.”
“Nobody had ever looked at her like that—as if she were filled with such lethal sweetness that craving could be synonymous with ruin.”
Source: Quid Pro Quo
“Nobody had ever said to me before, "You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want. Start saying no. Just do one thing a day. No more than two social events in a week." I owe my life to him.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.”
“Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.”
“Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.”
“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”
Source: White Oleander
“Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn't understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.”
“Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.”
“Nobody had to tell Ramona life was full of disappointments. She already knew.”
Source: Ramona and Her Mother
“Nobody had told me I was common.”
“Nobody had warned her that this would happen during middle age: these sudden, wildly inappropriate waves of desire for young men, with no biological imperative whatsoever.”
Source: Nine Perfect Strangers
“Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.”
“Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.”
“Nobody has a franchise on what is good.”
“Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.”
Source: The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection
“Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different.”
“Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.”
“Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems.”
“Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas”
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.”
Source: The play as theater
“Nobody has a nose for hypocrisy quite like a teen.”
Source: Most Eligible Billionaire
“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”
“Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.”
“Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Nobody has a right to comfort, unless everybody has access to the essentials of life.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.”
“Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it”
Source: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house
“Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.”
“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”
“Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.”
Source: Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs