N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not all knowledge comes from college.”
“Not all lessons are meant to help you. Some are presented to you to distract you from reaching your destiny. A shoemaker’s technical lessons are not so
useful to a fruit seller.”
“Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.”
Source: The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
“Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.”
“Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.”
“Not all little girls are born murderers, but every woman becomes one. Most simply destroy pieces of themselves - their dreams, their desires, their right to speak to whom and what they please. I kill men instead.”
Source: Lady or the Tiger
“Not all lives are large. Not all stories are sad.”
Source: Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.”
“Not all love are meant to be successful, some shall help you to overcome your failures.”
“Not all love is a bed of rose,
And not every flower glows.
Even the cactus with its thorn
Can make an impact to reborn!
Nem todo amor é um mar de rosa,
nem toda flor é assim tao cheirosa.
Mas até o cacto com tanto espinho
causa um impacto em seu caminho!”
Source: Pierrot & Columbine
“Not all love stories end with people being together. Some stories end with a distance between two people who can't be together but can't even move on and forget each other.”
“Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you.”
Source: The Autobiography of Santa Claus
“Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.”
“Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some, probably most, are constructed here on earth for any number of reason.”
Source: The Wedding Wallah
“Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.”
“Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.”
Source: Faeries' Oracle
“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.”
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies
“Not all men are abusive perverts, but toxic masculinity is tradition.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today?”
Source: Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy
“Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward that he is, he keeps on fighting in his own way.”
Source: Wonderful Fool
“Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see that as suffocating rather than charming." Her words are sharp, but her voice is sweet, like honey on the edge of a blade, and meant to be cutting. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain.”
“Not all men are worthy of love.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Not all men can understand metaphor and subtlety like I. But do not fear, my muscular friends, I will be here to guide you through the mind-bending things.”
Source: Red Rising
“Not all men!" isn't just a mating call for the lazy and aggrieved, it's also a diversionary tactic used to shift attention away from the substantial issues of discrimination and oppression that impact women's lives and channel it instead into men's feelings.”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
“Not all men!' isn't just a mating call for the lazy and aggrieved, it's also a diversionary tactic used to shift attention away from the substantial issues of discrimination and oppression that impact women's lives and channel it instead into men's feelings. Worse, it demands that women temper our complaints, that we frame our discussions of the violence we've experienced at men's hands in a way that doesn't implicate any of the men we know or work with or sit next to on the bus or even just casually pass by in any one of the infinite numbers of corridors on the internet. Sure, you may have been raped or beaten or grown up with a violent father or been groped by a colleague--but the important thing to remember here is that not all men are like that, and unless you acknowledge this then aren't you kind of just as bad as those men out there who hate women enough to kill them?”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
“Not all men rape women,
not all men are thieves,
not all men are chicken,
not all men wanna be in your jeans.
And that's alright
because it's rude to generalize
so not all men are bad,
I understand
but all women and how they're absurd?
Now that's just a fact.”
Source: If I Have A Daughter One Day
“Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.”
“Not all minds are schooled.”
“Not all mistakes are unintentional.”
“Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.”
“Not all moments can be between two people. Some moments are between two souls!”
“Not all monsters are filled with darkness.”
Source: Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
“Not all monsters hide under your bed...some of them entice you into theirs.”
Source: Venom & Lace
“Not all monsters look monstrous.’ There’s so much sadness in his voice that I want to ask how he knows that. 'Sometimes they’re perfectly normal humans. Sometimes they’re so beautiful, you would never suspect.”
Source: Labyrinth Lost
“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”
“Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach”
“Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.”
“Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)”
“Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.”
“Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.”
“Not all my smiles and laughters speak really what's inside my heart. Sometimes it's just masking the feelings and emotions what I don't want people to see because that's what I am not in their eyes.”
“Not all negative emotions are negative in the same way. Negative emotions about the self are much worse than negative emotions about externals. Which is why a victory rings hollow when it is not founded in virtue, and it is better to be on the losing side.”
Source: Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
“Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.”
“Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)”
“Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.”
“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?”
“Not all of history is recorded in the books supplied to school children in Harlem or Birmingham. Yet this boy and this girl know something of the part of history which has been censored by the white writers and purchasers of board-of-education books. They know that Negroes were with George Washington at Valley Forge. They know that the first American to shed blood in the revolution which freed his country from British oppression was a black seaman named Crispus Attucks. The boy's Sunday-school teacher has told him that one of the team who designed the capital of their nation, Washington, D.C., was a Negro, Benjamin Banneker. Once the girl had heard a speaker, invited to her school during Negro History Week. This speaker told how, for two hundred years, without wages, black people, brought to this land in slave ships and in chains, had drained the swamps, built the homes, made cotton king and helped, on whip-lashed backs, to lift this nation from colonial obscurity to commanding influence in domestic commerce and world trade.
Wherever there was hard work, dirty work, dangerous work—in the mines, on the docks, in the blistering foundries—Negroes had done more than their share.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.”
“Not all of me shall die.”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
“Not all of my songs are electronic, they're not house or dancey.”