N Quotes
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“Norman Rockwell saved my life.”
Source: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Other People in Norman Rockwell's America
“Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!”
“Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.”
“Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me.”
“Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a rather new adventure. Let's wait and see what will happen!”
“Normative mind tends to be naive.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs. Only we can understand and respond to reasons.”
“NormnAl, "Like, Share, Follow and subscribe" - The typical cliche drill.”
“Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.”
“Norms operate much like the air we breathe — unseen yet critical for our survival.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Norms ought to be the product of accountability and reason, not insecurity and superstition.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Norms without original thinking brings societal progress to a halt, original thinking without norms makes the society unstable.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Norns are incredible architects. They simply use death as a building block.” Andacellus, Viddion marah.”
“Norocul e un lucru care apare în mai multe forme. Cone poate să îl recunoască? Totuși aș lua un pic, în orice formă ar fi, și aș plăti cât mi s-ar cere. Aș vrea să văd luminile licărind.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“Norrigal’s eyes popped wide when I stabbed him deep in the chest with the rondel dagger eight or nine times before he could comment.”
Source: The Blacktongue Thief
“Norris met another survivor on board who told him that he had been bringing home a prized dog on the Titanic and had gone to the kennels and released all the dogs a half hour before the ship went under. Norris described to him how when he was swimming away from the sinking liner he had spied the black face of a French bulldog in the water.”
Source: Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
“Norris was particularly exasperated by a report that loosely blamed a man's death on wood alcohol. The document stated that the victim had been drinking heavily in the hours before his collapse. He'd also been stricken with sudden blindness (a classic symptom of wood alcohol poisoning) several hours before lapsing into a coma. The death certificate listed wood alcohol poisoning as a 'more than probable' cause.
But 'more than probable' was hardly a professional opinion, Norris said. [...]”
Source: The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
“Norse mythology hints at Odinic cults, with Odin being worshipped through a combination of ecstatic and seemingly shamanistic rituals. From the eddic poem The Sayings of the High One ( Hávamál ), he is said to have hanged himself in a sacrificial ritual on a tree. Barely surviving this ordeal, Odin gains arcane knowledge, including the use of runes, the ancient Scandinavian alphabet sometimes used for magical purposes. In the poem, Odin chants :
I know that I hung
on the wind-swept tree
all nine nights
with spear was I wounded
and given to Odin,
myself to me,
on that tree which no one knows
from which roots it grows.
Bread I was not given,
no drink from the horn,
downwards I glared;
up I pulled the runes,
screaming I took them,
from there I fell back again.
- excerpt from Jesse L. Byock's Introduction and Notes, of Sturluson's Prose Edda.”
Source: The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
“North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.”
Source: The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America
“North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional.”
“North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.”
“North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.”
“North American cinema is the only true weapon of mass destruction. It has achieved to convince the audience not only that it's the best possible cinema, but that it is the only.”
“North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.”
“North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.”
“North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.”
“North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.”
“North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.”
“North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.”
Source: North and South
“North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin.”
“North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.”
Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography
“North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.”
“North Brooklin, Maine
30 March 1973
Dear Mr. Nadeau:
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society—things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man's curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
Sincerely,
[Signed, 'E. B. White']”
“North Carolina and Virginia are probably two of the most business friendly states in the USA.”
“North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.”
Source: Hercules of the Revolution: A Novel Based on the Life of Peter Francisco
“North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.”
“North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.”
“North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.”
“North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path.”
“North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.”
“North Carolina right now is going apeshit in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, angry idea your drunk, right-wing uncle mumbles at Thanksgiving, turn it into a law, and that’s North Carolina today.”
“North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from the reflections of a man who was wrong on every major issue for 40 years. Helms' aides say the proceeds from the book will be donated to the non-profit Jesse Helms Center where they apparently have more experience burning than publishing them.”
“North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.”
“North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.”
“North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.”
“North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.”
“North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.”
“North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.”
“North Dakota is a great state. Everybody is real supportive up there. I couldn't ask for a better place to call home.”
“North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?”