N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind.”
Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature
“Nobody is really qualified to be the president. Basically it's an acting job. You have to act like you're the president. And every four years the country holds a big casting call.”
“Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.”
“Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
“Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao”
Source: Moment in Peking
“Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.”
“Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.”
Source: One Taste
“Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?”
“Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.”
Source: Past Perfect
“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.”
“Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.”
Source: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, During a Four Months' Residence in the Valley of the Marquesas
“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.”
“Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.”
“Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.”
“Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.”
“Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of ‘success’ or ‘wealth’.”
“Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.”
“Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced.”
“Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.”
Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations
“nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.”
Source: Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time
“Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.”
Source: Max
“Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.”
“Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.”
“Nobody is sure anymore who really runs the company (not even the people who are credited with running it), but the company does run.”
Source: Something happened
“Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.”
“Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.”
“Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.”
“Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.”
“Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that”
“Nobody is to discipline your life. But you must learn to discipline yourself.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Nobody is too holy for the devil's attack, even your tithes and offerings won't stop him either but God rebukes the devourer through your giving.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.”
“Nobody is trying to help.
Nobody.
nobody.
I don't know what to do. If this were a film, I would be there, I would be the hero stopping this false justice. But this isn't a film. I am not the hero.”
“Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.”
“Nobody is undocumented on a planet built on loot.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.”
“Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.”
“Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry”
“Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is.”
Source: De Profundis
“Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.”
“Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.”
“Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.”
“Nobody knew about our story. It was engraved in my heart and was there to stay. He knew that every breath I took, I was taking it for him.”
Source: A Silent Promise
“Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.”
Source: Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
“Nobody knew him as I did; nobody could appreciate him as I did; nobody could love him as I—could.”
Source: Agnes Grey
“Nobody knew how to be what they were right.”
Source: Lost in the Funhouse
“Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart”
Source: The Rose Tattoo
“Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.”
Source: The Iron Man
“Nobody knew what they were supposed to believe or what neighbors and relatives believed. Ghosts suddenly became as legitimate an option as anyone’s god.”
Source: The Dante Chamber