N Quotes
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“Nobody likes tainted victories.”
“Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.”
“Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.”
“Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.”
“Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.”
“Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.”
“Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.”
Source: Life History and the Historical Moment: Diverse Presentations
“Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.”
“Nobody likes to be preached to.”
“Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.”
“Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.”
“Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?”
“Nobody likes to feel like they're on the losing side of anything.”
“Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'”
“Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems”
“Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.”
“Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won't disappear, as you may think it will. The world will continue, but a change takes place within you. Something is uncovered. You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child.”
Source: Awaken Children Vol. 8
“Nobody likes to life anchors.”
Source: Islands in the stream
“Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.”
“Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.”
“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”
Source: The Stand
“Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.”
“Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.”
“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls, because they are screaming at me. I can't talk to my wife, because she listens to the walls.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Nobody listens to mathematicians.”
Source: Cosmos
“Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.”
“Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.”
“Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.”
Source: The Last Good Kiss
“Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.”
“Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.”
“Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.”
“Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.”
Source: Every 100 Years - The Woody Guthrie Centennial Songbook: 100 Years - 100 Songs
“Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.”
“Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.”
Source: Mr. Palomar
“Nobody looks better than when they are helping someone else.”
“Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.”
“Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damning fault line.
It’s not fiction, and there’s no escape. The walls between the human world and Faery are coming down—and I hate to break it to you, but these fairies are so not Tinkerbells.
I’ve seen things that would make your skin crawl. I’ve done things that make my skin crawl.”
Source: Faefever
“Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.”
“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?”
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'
I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?'
Lettie threw a pebble into the pond. 'I don't think so,' she said. 'Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.'
I said, 'People should be scared of Ursula Monkton.'
'P'raps. What do you think Ursula Monkton is scared of?'
'Dunno. Why do you think she's scared of anything? She's a grown-up, isn't she? Grown-ups and monsters aren't scared of things.'
Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters. And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
“Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.”
“Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun.”
“Nobody loses all the time.”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.”
Source: Beloved
“Nobody loves a fat girl, but oh how a fat girl can love.”