N Quotes
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“None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.”
“None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.”
“None of my teams win anything. They are an extension of my personality.”
“None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“None of our achievement matters, than how we have lived our lives.”
“None of our ancestors gave us any particular reason to be proud of them. Except for a rare few, they were all morons and they built of a world of moronity. That is more reason for us to be the first civilized ancestors to our descendants who are just born or yet to be born.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.”
“None of our films look alike, we are very dialectical in our approach to each one, and 'Hoop Dreams' was no exception. That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in many ways. It's a relationship between what you thought might have been the story, and what happens in the 'field.' Out of that comes the story, which was exactly what happened with 'Hoop Dreams.'”
“None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.”
Source: Collected Poems
“None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God — acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him.”
“None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.”
“none of sin makes you better, sin always makes you get worse”
“None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.”
“None of that mattered anymore. They weren't stupid little girls anymore. They weren't students anymore. War had transformed them both into wholly unimaginable creatures, and their relationship had transformed with them.”
Source: The Dragon Republic
“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle”
“None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.”
“None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.”
“None of the arts are any good unless you really are great at them.”
“None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.”
“None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.”
“None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.”
“None of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you know, this ironic way, or the way that people actually treat it.”
“None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting.”
“None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.”
“None of the Christian religions do [interest me]. They're all outer-directed.”
“None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.”
“None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.”
“None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.”
“None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.”
“None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.”
“None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.”
“None of the guys did anything. We never did anything. I never really got into the workout room until I was about 40 years old. I was pretty strong and I didn't think I needed that much.”
“None of the human qualities can be regarded as the social values without the one quality of humanity”
“None of the human takes a bad birth, his thinking his direction leads to evil.”
“None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the right way, the result takes to the air. A thin metal bar won't do you much good if you're trying to control a jaguar, but several of them in parallel have the property of containment. The concept of emergent properties means that something new can be introduced that is not inherent in any of the parts.”
“None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.”
Source: The Jungle Book (With the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling): Classic of children's literature from one of the most popular writers in England, known for Kim, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three
“None of the less if we are truly alone in this vast universe at least we have the stars”
“None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the current stage of a particular female’s psyche. The men function as catalysts, and are certainly important to the development of the story, but the relationships are not the goal. I do not see romance as being what’s central to the success of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.”
“None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.”
Source: Christ in Art
“None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.”
“None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.”
“None of the more apparently expressive elements involved in my work - color, form, application, and so on - are important or instructive in themselves. They're all just a means of entry, markers pointing beyond themselves towards something broader and less controlled.”
“None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.”
“None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.”
“None of the other kids my age has to do all the grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and bill paying. It’s just not fair that I have to be an adult when I’m still a kid.”
Source: A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
“None of the parties want this conflict to go on.”
“None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.”
“None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits