N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.”
“Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.”
“Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.”
“Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and my passion for literature whenever possible if it helps me to wrestle demons, and to more effectively communicate what I believe to be most important to our lives.”
“Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.”
“Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.”
“Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.”
“Nona moved over to give him a hug. She hugged him like Camilla would have, the one thing she was truly good at, and he fell into it immediately. He put his head on her shoulder and breathed in deep through his nose.”
Source: Nona the Ninth
“Nona was as wacky as they came.”
Source: Ink
“Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting.
Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.”
“Nonage [immaturity] is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance.”
“Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.”
Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
“Nonbeing plays almost an equally important role as Being. By lacking form, the Nonbeing offers life to the form. By lacking limits, the Nonebeing provides the opportunity and space to the Being (with limits).”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.”
“Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.”
“Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we stand dumbstruck by you as well--by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God.”
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.”
“Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.”
“nonchalant charminar
ma, i can’t smile well-scrubbed twisted-smirks in your noble society anymore
in the godly dense ocean of kindness with krishna’s duffed up white teeth with studious eyes of the devil i can’t
anymore in a ramakrishnian posture use my wife according to the matriarchal customs
substitute sugar for saccharine and dread diabetes no more i can’t no more with my unhappy
organ do a devdas again in khalashitola on the registry day of a former fling.
my liver is getting rancid by the day my grandfather had cirrhosis don’t understand
heredity i drink alcohol read poetry my father for the sake of puja etc used to fast venerable dadas in our para
swearing by dharma gently press ripe breasts of sisters-born-of-the-locality on holi
on the day ma left for trips abroad many in your noble society had vodka i will
nonchalantly from your funeral pyre light up a charminar thinking of your death my eyes tear
up then i don’t think of earthquakes by the banks or of floodwater didn’t put my hand on the string of the petticoat of an unmarried lover and didn’t think of baishnab padavali ma, even i’ll die one day.
at belur mandir on seeing foreign woman pray with her international python-bum veiled in a skirt
my limitless libido rose up ma because your libido will be tied up to father’s memories even beyond death i this fucked up drunk am
envying you carrying dirt of the humblest kind looking at my organ
i feel as if i’m an organism from another planet now the rays of the setting sun is touching my face on a tangent
and after mixing the colour of the setting sun on their wings a flock of non-family-planning birds is going back towards bonolata sen’s
eyes peaceful as a nest – it’s time for them to warm the eggs –”
Source: ফালগুনী রায় সমগ্র
“Nonconceptuality is an experience of the total openness of your mind. Your awareness is direct and unclouded by conceptual distinction such as “I” or “other,” subjects and objects, or any other form of limitation. It’s an experience of pure consciousness as infinite as space, without beginning, middle, or end. It’s like becoming awake within a dream and recognizing that everything experienced in the dream isn’t separate from the mind of the dreamer.
– Mingyur Rinpoche”
Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”
“Nonconformity is a part of revolution, but it's neither the cause nor the purpose of it.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.”
Source: The Organization Man
“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”
Source: Round River
“Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.”
Source: Julia Child & more company
“Nondedzju!”
Source: Het recht van den sterkste
“Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles coming into tension, into conflict with one another, our goal as Americans is to sit down and try to see if we can uphold both.”
“Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor.”
“Nondual parts work modalities restructure the internal family, enabling the ego to relinquish authority, resulting in Self-leadership. Capable of integrating the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche without becoming overwhelmed, the Self serves as the ideal organizing principle.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Nonduality is a term which reflects devotion to and love of a spiritual Good which has no opposite. It is a realisation of the tremendous power of the invisible life-force of the Divine. God and man are not seen as separate entities, but as One. Both are held with an attitude of devotional love and this devotion unfolds as a sincere and unrelenting walk towards greater self-realisation. Nonduality is a system of thought which sees the essence of the human soul as indistinguishable from the Absolute. It does not make sense to the human mind. We have to open the door to a different realm and then we begin to experientially and spiritually feel it. Understanding nonduality naturally leads to healing because life is seen in a way that is spontaneously elevating.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“Nondum amabam, et amare amabam”
“None are as offended as those who contrive offense.”
“None are deceived but they that confide.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.”
Source: A Sure Guide to Heaven
“none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“None are happy but by anticipation of change.”
“None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“none are left to please when none are left to love.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.”
“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”
Source: The Salt Cellars
“None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.”
“None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.”
Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible
“None are so busy as the fool and the knave.”
“None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.”
“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.”
Source: the elements of style