N Quotes
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“Not a single, substantial, commercially-successful product had come from an adequately-finded team. They'd always come from the scrounging, scrapping, underfunded teams.”
“Not a softness anywhere about me,
Only whalebone and brocade.”
Source: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
“Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.”
“Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd
Some tricks of desperation; all but mariners
Plung'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel;
Then all afire with me the King's son Ferdinand
With hair up staring ( then like reeds, not hair)
Was the first man that leap'd; cried Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.”
Source: The Tempest
“Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.”
“Not a sound, but a sort of silence, a faint hum like the space between note and note in a song.”
Source: Circe
“Not a specific song. What I do maybe love above all about Nick Cave is how he's created this universe, this world, where there are all these characters and songs and themes. It's very unique, and I appreciate it. It's very hard to say that I have a specific favourite; I just actually love everything that he does.”
“Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals.”
“Not a stone but has its history.”
“Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.”
“Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.”
Source: The Business of Life
“Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence.”
Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy
“Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit.”
“Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.”
“Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.”
Source: A World Without Heroes
“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.”
Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
“Not a week goes by in my life without at least one or two demons entering my dreams...My theory is that the demons are trying to pull me down towards hell. A reminder of the countless times I've thought about taking my own life.”
Source: Silence in the Basement
“Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.”
Source: The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner
“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.”
“Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone”
Source: The woman in white
“Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.”
“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything—that's how it is between people who are each other's first memories, people who have fed from the same breast”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Not a word they said was true. But if you tuned in for a moment, there were some unexpected windfalls of veracity. In the middle of a pompous speech, there would sometimes be a phrase of brutal honesty. The things we say without a thought are often how the truth comes out.”
Source: The Flowers of Buffoonery
“Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.”
“Not able to stop it, I felt a small smile tilt up the corners of my mouth. "Noted. Althought I must protest that you keep forcing unwanted kisses on me."
"It's the only way to get one. Unwanted indeed." He raised a knowing eyebrow at me. Arrogant Knave. I shook my head, feeling sad and happy all at the same time. "Why do you persist, Wolfe?"
His grin was slow and wicked as he stood back from me, allowing my body and mind to breathe again. "Strategy."
"Strategy?"
He cocked his eyebrow. "At first I thought imposed isolation would make you miss me-"
"Why you arro-"
"-But then I realised that it's being near me you can't resist. And there are only so many kisses you'll take before you give in to me completely, Rogan.”
Source: Slumber
“Not about anything. Not even when you don’t want me to worry. I know you’re strong and so resilient it’s fucking unbelievable, but you don’t have to always be strong with me. It’s okay to not be okay when you’re with me,” he said, and my breath caught. “It’s my duty as your husband to make sure you feel safe enough to be real. You don’t have to pretend that you’re okay with everything that has happened, Poppy.”
“not about the darkness had feared
but how strongly we hold the light”
“Not about the perversities of others, not about their sins of commission or omission, but about his own misdeeds and negligences alone should a sage be worried.”
“Not accomplishing your Life Plan is a tragic act of free will. It is akin to charting an elaborate vacation itinerary before arriving at your holiday destination, with all kinds of plans for outdoor adventures and intentions to go sightseeing and shopping, but then ending up spending the whole trip in your hotel room ordering from room service and watching television. In a similar fashion the unconscious soul spends a lifetime in the semi-conscious state of Divine Disconnection and then returns home mostly ‘empty-handed’.”
Source: Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
“Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?”
“Not accustomed to entertaining angels, are we?” he asked.”
Source: Halloween Nightmares
“Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.”
“Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable.”
“Not actively surviving is passively dying.”
“Not adding value is the same as taking it away.”
“Not afraid of controversy.”
“Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.”
“Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death”
“Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.”
“Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.”
“Not again,” Daphne muttered angrily when she came in for dinner one night. “How can Muggles listen to such dribble?”
“It’s ‘Joy to the World,’” Justin responded importantly. “How can that possibly be dribble?”
She scoffed at him. “Evidence shows that your Harry Potter figure—“
Harry gagged at her phrasing and nearly choked on the pumpkin juice he was drinking.
“As I was saying,” Daphne began again, “your Harry Potter figure was most likely born in March. Your scholars say so.”
Justin rolled his eyes.
“The only reason that your Christmas was placed at the end of December was because of pre-existing pagan holidays celebrating the darkest time of the year, when the pagan god is reborn having died at Samhain. Your god’s death and resurrection had been told hundreds of times before that in all notable pagan religions. And you stole our date and our customs—including evergreen trees and mistletoe.”
“I don’t think I like Jesus being called a Harry Potter figure,” Harry murmured to himself, finding the entire conversation suddenly frightening.
“I can’t believe you just said that,” Justin said to Daphne, who pointedly ignored him.
“Why not?” she questioned Harry. “He somehow survived death to rise again when he shouldn’t have and was born to save the world. He clearly is a prefiguration of the entire prophecy situation we currently have. Who knows? In two thousand years there might be a religion surrounding you.”
Harry paled just at that horrifying thought, and was glad that Octavian celebrated Yule. After this Christmas, he would try never to think about those parallels ever again.
“What about angels visiting the shepherds?” Justin asked Daphne defensively. “Or the three kings? I bet you don’t have those!”
“You really think you came up with the kings?” Daphne laughed. “Don’t get me started on the three magical kings. They’re not even human!”
Source: Of Horcruxes and Kings
“Not ah single man or ah woman 'as learnt anyt'ing widout meking mistakes. Y'understand? An' everyone 'as de resources to rise up from any tribulation.”
Source: East of Acre Lane
“Not aim for nondivision, we gotta start from
nondivision - not aim for secularism, we gotta
start from secularism - not aim for harmony, we
gotta start from harmony.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Not aim for nondivision, we gotta start from nondivision - not aim for secularism, we gotta start from secularism - not aim for harmony, we gotta start from harmony.
Harmony is the starting point - integration is the starting point - universal acceptance is the starting point. It is this simple, yet why do we complicate it with so much intellectual jargon, like existentialism, empiricism, humanism and so on!
Why can't the human simply be human!
A real existentialist pays attention to existence, not to existentialism. A real empiricist pays attention to the rightful use of empirical evidence, not to mere empiricism. A real humanist pays attention to a life of human substance, not to shallow theoretical concepts like humanism.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a lower risk for dementia. Dancing, which requires learning new moves, is both physically and mentally challenging and requires much concentration. Less intense activities, such as bowling, babysitting, and golfing, are not associated with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s. (254)”
Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
“Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.”
“Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.”
“Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.”
“Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.”