N Quotes
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“Not a lot of siblings have opportunity [of realizing ourselves and realizing each other], because they're always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are.”
“Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.”
“Not a mark on it. (Joe) Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I’ll bet there’s a big stain there. (Tee)”
“Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.”
“Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.”
Source: Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
“Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.”
“Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.”
“Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.”
Source: The American Crisis
“Not a possession, no. But you are mine. You were mine before we met, and mine the minute we locked eyes. You are mine in this life, and every life we may experience from this point forward. You are mine in every reality you exist, and mine in every reality you don't. And I am yours in kind, in every way you can imagine. I will gladly be your possession, but I will also be your guardian, your keeper, your protector. And I will do whatever I can to turn you away from danger, because it is impossible for me not to.”
“Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.”
“Not a recovery book. Not a self-help book. A reckoning.”
Source: The Quiet Con: What the Alcohol Industry Hopes You Never Figure Out
“Not a road long enough
to outrun the dawn.
Let the sun rise.
I am ready.”
Source: Drive Through the Night
“Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.”
“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
“Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Not a single alcohol has a human problem.”
“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many times over. We flake away and become new. Whatever we are now, we are not the stuff from which we were originally made. All the people we once were. All the people we had once hoped to be.”
Source: Twist
“Not a single bird makes its first leap from a tree without faith, and not a single animal in the jungle begins its day without faith. Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.”
“Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?”
“Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.”
“Not a single day went by – and not one day would ever go by, for many years – that he did not think of Sirius and suffer. It was an abstract and cruel torture, and Remus resigned himself to a life of utter misery.”
“Not a single drop of rain falls in the wrong place.
Not a single person we meet is by chance.”
“Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.”
“Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.”
“Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.”
“Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”
Source: Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
“Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.”
“Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.”
“Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.”
“Not a single path
Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Not a single people,' he began, as if reading line for line and at the same time continuing to look threateningly at Stavrogin, 'not one people has ever yet organized itself according to the principles of science and reason. Never has there been a single example of that, except only for a brief moment, out of stupidity. Socialism, by its very nature, must be atheism, for it has specifically proclaimed, from its very first words, that it is an atheistic construct and is intentionally organized exclusively according to the principles of science and reason. Reason and science in the life of peoples always, now and from the beginning of time, have fulfilled merely a secondary and auxiliary function; and that will be their function until the end of time. Peoples are formed and moved by another force that rules and dominates them, but whose origin is unknown and inexplicable. This force is the force of an unquenchable desire to go on to the end, while at the same time denying the end. This is the force of a ceaseless and tireless affirmation of its own being and the denial of death. It is the spirit of life, as the Scriptures say, "of living water", the drying up of which is threatened in the Apocalypse. It is the aesthetic principle, as the philosophers say, the moral principle, as they also identify it. "The search for God", as I call it more simply. The goal of all movements of peoples, in every people and in every period of its existence, is nothing but a search for God, its own God, unquestionably its own, and faith in him as the only true one. God is the synthesis of the personality of an entire people, taken from its beginning to its end. It has never been the case that all or many peoples have had a single common God, but each has certainly had its own special one. It is a sign of a people's extinction when gods begin to be held in common. When the gods come to be held in common, then the gods die and so does faith in them, along with the peoples themselves. The stronger a people, the more singular its God. There has never yet been a people without religion, that is, without the concept of evil and good. Each people has its own concept of evil and good, and its own evil and good. When many different peoples begin to hold concepts of evil and good in common, then the peoples die out, and then the very difference between evil and good begins to blur and disappear.”
Source: Demons
“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”
Source: How to be a Finance Rock Star
“Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.”
“Not a single person was trying to reach me, and even if they had been, they wouldn't have said what I wanted to hear.”
Source: Pinball, 1973
“Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.”
“Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.”
“Not a single reasonable person has ever changed the world. Be crazy.”
“Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.”
Source: Записки президента
“Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).”
Source: Mark Twain's notebook
“Not a single rumor whispered on the wind here. He was too high up for such lowly experiences, too removed from the mundane and the pain. For these few blessed moments the rushing sensations blew away his controversial existence. And he smiled.”
Source: Transitions
“Not a single scene, situation, idea, or image that was in that screenplay was in my script for Django Unchained. Yet... the essence of what Floyd was trying to accomplish in that script, an epic western with a black heroic cowboy at its center, was the very heart of what I was trying to accomplish with Django Unchained.
But even more influential than any one script was having a man trying to be a screenwriter living in my house. Him writing, him talking about his script, me reading it, made me consider for the first time writing movies. The reason I knew how to even format a screenplay was from reading Floyd's screenplays. It would be a long read—from that year of 1978 to me completing my first feature length screenplay -True Romance- in September 1987.
But due to Floyd's inspiration I tried writing screenplays. I usually never got that far. I think thirty was by far the furthest I ever got. But I tried. And eventually succeeded.”
Source: Cinema Speculation
“Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.”
Source: The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems : a Bilingual Edition
“Not a single thing in the whole Universe is Brighter than Our Soul.”
“Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort.”
“Not a single thought went through my mind other than the need to shoot. And so I shot.
Bang!”
Source: Of Love and Justice
“Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.”
“Not a single time have we gotten our rights from Congress or the President, we get them from God. And when He gives us those rights, He puts a warning bell inside of us. When somebody tries to take them, a warning bell goes off. And that's what America is feeling right now.”
“Not a single way around this town is without thugs. Rakes, crooks, slants, dandies, ‘piquants’, swindlers: who does not line our roads? Each one has his eyes fixed on your purse. It is hard to miss them.”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan