N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nonna, there's something else… San Francisco. Sometimes when I walk through the neighborhoods, downtown, past buildings… I think they whisper to me... Petra Duffey”
“Nonnina: – Tu… quanto tempo ancora hai intenzione di vivere? … Dovresti morire al più presto, per loro … Tu … mi capisci … no? … Anch’io vorrei andarmene al più presto. […] Nulla mi diverte ormai … E non intendo procurare fastidio a nessuno … Anche lui pensa questo. Ne sono convinta … Ma è difficile morire … Uno … Non riesce a morire … Non come vorrebbe … Non va come si desidera.”
Source: Terre de rêves
“Nonny has this way about her. She made me realize that there was good people in the world. She made me see that we were a family of sorts--the GhostWalkers in my unit--and that we had extended family in the other GhostWalker units. I liked that.”
Source: Toxic Game
“Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come to watch. Enlightenment is rare in this world.”
“Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.”
“Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.”
“Nonreaction isn’t about ignoring the problem or suppressing your emotions, but about choosing a more skillful and, dare I say, more eloquent response.
It’s about recognizing that your silence can be more disarming than any logical (or illogical) argument.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”
Source: Awakening in the Now: Accessing the Transformational Power of “Space Consciousness”
“Nonreaders rely almost exclusively upon their senses and tactile interactions to interpret their external environment whereas people who read are apt to rely upon their internal interpretation of other people’s written thoughts. Nonreaders tend to catalogue their life experiences and derive their values exclusively through their interaction with external stimuli.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.”
Source: Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays
“Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.”
“Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Nonrhythmic sensory stimuli (NRSS) are calming, gentle, nonthreatening movements found in nature, such as ripples on a pool of water, grass swaying, or leaves moving in a breeze, which can aid psychological restoration and reduce eyestrain from computers. The movement catches our eye every so often and allows us a moment of effortless attention on something in the distance. This is particularly beneficial if we refocus our vision every 20 minutes, for 20 seconds, on something 20 feet away (this is known as the 20x20x20 rule).
Adding some greenery to your workspace can help with this. Try placing a leafy plant next to an open window for gentle movement in a breeze.”
Source: Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing
“Nonsectarianism is peace.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.”
“Nonsense Bella, it was all a misunderstanding. We just need to talk about it.”
Her stunned amazement quickly gave way to anger. “I don’t think I misunderstood that twenty- something coed riding you like a pony!” She nearly shouted.
“Bella, I am sorry about that, she caught me in a moment of weakness and she wouldn’t take no for an answer. What was I supposed to do? I am a guy after all.”
Source: Morning After
“Nonsense," Brynn waved her off, "You'll be family soon enough. Come, have a seat. Odran and Doran and working and I sent Macsen to the market with Quinn, so I'm afraid you'll only have me for company."
"You're always my favorite company," Niall said with a cheeky grin. "And my favorite aunt."
Brynn rolled her eyes, but the amusement in her expression made Ciara want to laugh.
"I'm your only aunt," she said, swatting lightly at him.”
Source: The Betrayer: Tales of Pern Coen
“Nonsense can be an ingenious architect of sense, as it may turn things upside down and, so doing, sharpen our perception, stir our imagination, clear our mind and refine our judgment. Like poetry might interlock with science, and emotion with intellect, so are sense and nonsense relentlessly interacting and this interplay enriches the filigree of our thinking pattern. (“Drunken ship” )”
“Nonsense!" growled the Wolf. "I tell you that it is all the fault of the Government, and if you don't believe me I shall eat you." The Wolf had a thoroughly practical mind, and was never at a loss for a good argument.”
“Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.”
Source: The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope
“Nonsense. I wanted you from day one. I just hid it better.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“Nonsense is indeed mere absence of sense, and can always be remedied by arbitrarily assigning some sense.”
Source: From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
“Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.”
“Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talks
“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.”
“Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.”
“Nonsense is the path to the opposite.
Weakness the path to strength.
Etc.”
“Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.”
“Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.”
“Nonsense," Miss Porter told her. "One itsy-bitsy-teeny-tiny little crisp isn't going to hurt."
"But that's the trouble," Hannah argued. "You never have just one ity-bitsy-teeny-tiny little crisp."
"Nonsense," Miss Porter said again. "You all worry too much.”
Source: The Monster Crisp-Guzzler
“Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?”
“Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Nonsense. You aren’t alive to begin with,” I pointed out. “Suck it up and make the best of it, Milo. The future is bright, I assure you.”
“We come into existence, and we float through space, doomed, until we all die horribly. No reason to live at all.”
Milo the busboy wept uncontrollably.
He probably knew more than I did, but who can say?”
“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.”
“Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.”
“Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”
“Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.”
“Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
“Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.”
Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead
“Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.”
“Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.”
“Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.”
Source: Love All the People (New Edition)
“Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.”
Source: Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
“Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.”