N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.”
“None of us can censor our feelings, Mr Digby, only our actions”
“None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.”
“None of us can choose the manner of our passing.”
“None of us can choose where we shall love.”
“None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.”
“None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 30: Sermons 1757-1815
“None of us can discover personal bliss by blindly following the footsteps of other people. We must dare to be originals for we have only one life to live. Living a life that placates other people is fool’s gold.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.”
Source: Henry IV
“None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.”
Source: One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel
“None of us can harm anyone else’s spiritual progress. The power to spiritually progress, or regress, lies within each of us and our own souls.”
Source: Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment
“None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
“None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.”
“None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it.”
Source: The Forest Passage
“None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.”
“None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.”
“None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.”
Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times
“None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.”
Source: Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For?
“None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.”
“None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.”
“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs, values, infatuations, prejudices, ethics, and mores. The lees wrought from our seedlings contribute to the social order that oversees a newborn’s future. How we conduct ourselves in the here and now emulates our heritage, delineates the parameters of the present culture, and sets the embryonic stage for the emergent ethos of our future and for the generations of people whom we will never meet.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.”
“None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others. Even the very simple act that we call "seeing a person we know" is in part an intellectual one. We fill the physical appearance of the individual we see with all the notions we have about him, and of the total picture that we form for ourselves, these notions certainly occupy the greater part.”
“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”
Source: Ender's Game
“None of us could believe what Trump was doing - because no one had ever seen anyone do it that way before.”
“None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.”
Source: The Fourth Eye
“None of us could know how insignificant we were...”
Source: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
“None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.”
Source: Forgiven
“None of us deserves anything, good, Rich, but what we do deserve,” the priest paused to finger the crucifix he wore under his collar, “he already bore”
Source: Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5
“None of us deserves God’s love. All of us deserve His righteous judgment and wrath (John 3:18, 36; Romans 3:9–12). It is easy to think of an evil and depraved man like Adolf Hitler deserving divine judgment . . .But think of the kind and good people that you know . . .They too will be lost if they refuse and neglect God’s offer of mercy and forgiveness. God’s judgment applies to them too.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“None of us ever do,” said Mrs. Allan with
a sigh. “But then, Anne, you know what Lowell
says, ‘Not failure but low aim is crime.’ We
must have ideals and try to live up to them,
even if we never quite succeed. Life would
be a sorry business without them. With them
it’s grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals,
Anne.”
Source: Anne of Avonlea
“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.”
Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days
“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”
“None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us.”
Source: The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2
“None of us ever thought too much about our actions, our inaction-life was too fast, too complicated. We just kept moving forward. By the time we thought about it, it was too late. We kept moving forward anyway.”
Source: Nice Girls
“None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The world that's important is the world behind each of our eyes, which is something that none of the rest of us can access.”
“None of us exists in an isolation tank. We stand in blood and brains and in familial relationships with our brethren. We exist within the backdrop of experiences provided by our families, teachers, friends, church, social events, newspapers, books, television, film, art, music, science, and self-exploration. The pattern of our personality hat is comprised of the many fine hairs shed by our gargantuan society.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“None of us expect you to be fine, Maya,' he said, his voice a physical thing, strong enough to lean on.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.”
“None of us find yoga. We are not that smart. Yoga finds us. We are taken up by it. It is nothing more than pure grace. We don’t make this happen. We are the very fortunate recipients of this divine largesse.”
“None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.”
“None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.”
Source: Skybreaker
“None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging that help
is a very important part of understanding...
and is also the importance of saying... THANK YOU.”
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
“None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.”
“None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day.”
“None of us has an obligation to accept the definitions of ‘respect’ and ‘gratitude’ our parents espoused, especially when those definitions can be used to guilt-trip us, or when they are being used for the purpose of forcing us to do certain things (as an extortion mechanism).”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes