N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not all who read learn. Not all who learn understand. Not all who understand care.”
Source: The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life
“Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.”
“Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.”
“Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.”
“Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our books, thumbing through it and exclaiming, “Hey, listen to what this old guy had to say back in the twentieth century!”
“Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.”
“Not all your family or friends will be happy when you succeed, nor will everyone be saddened when you lose; so, be careful with whom you're sharing your personal business.”
“Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.”
Source: Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations
“Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.”
“Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.”
Source: Forever
“Not allowing time to pass without converting it into added value is what creates your worth and wealth”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.”
“Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.”
“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."
"True," said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggerel myself.”
Source: The Purloined Letter
“Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“Not always but often enough that I have noticed: large age gaps in romantic and/or sexual relationships drain people.”
“Not always do we need what is trendy, sexy and all that shit. Is it viable?”
“Not always getting what you want, but sometimes getting what you need.”
Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
“Not always starting from A ends you in Z, sometimes you have to continue with AA and create any word of your own.”
“Not always sunny, but always in a sunny state of mind”
“Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!”
“Not always what you expect is what you wanted”
“Not am I worthy enough, but am I free enough to awaken and disrupt everything old and unnecessary in my life?”
Source: The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness
“Not an angel of the air,
Bird melodious or bird fair,
Be absent hence!”
Source: The Two Noble Kinsmen
“Not an easy story but an important one. Compelling, powerful and engaging.”
“Not an emotional person? That's pretty much all he is! Maybe she talks a lot about her feelings, but he's entirely governed by his, that's the difference. But that's what makes him a good fireman, and a good dad too, and it was his emotions she fell in love with. And it's emotions that have made their sons good hockey players and their daughter a fantastic figure skater, because you can't get good at a sport if you're not sensitive enough for it to mean everything to you, if you don't take every setback personally, if every loss doesn't feel like dying.”
Source: The Winners
“Not an idyllic hope for a later heaven but a living experience right now We cannot jump over this world or its woundedness and still try to love God. We must love God through, in, with, and even because of this world.”
Source: The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
“Not an impossible task, just an outrageous challenge.”
Source: Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
“Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.”
“Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!”
“Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.”
Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz
“Not antisocial, just wanted some peace
Yes, I have a low tolerance for superficialities
Quiet on the outside but my mind's a chaos
Music, movies, poetry, and cosmos
What makes life worth living?
Yes, I do love overthinking
Alone but never lonely
My mind's perpetually busy
of things, not everyone might comprehend
I usually do not follow the trend
Not a snob, more of a wallflower
a loner who celebrates solitude like no other.”
“Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.”
“Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.”
“Not any wind will knock down our trees, not any drought will prevent our plants from blossoming.”
“Not anymore, though," he said. "And I guess that's the one perk of loving a dead girl. She never changes.”
Source: Oblivion
“Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”
“Not anyone who says, “I’m going to be
careful and smart in matters of love,”
who says, “I’m going to choose slowly,”
but only those lovers who didn’t choose at all
but were, as it were, chosen
by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable
and beautiful and possibly even
unsuitable —
only those know what I’m talking about
in this talking about love.”
“Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.”
Source: Passion Profit Power
“Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.”
“Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.”
“Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far,
Beneath the silver evening star,
And yet her heart is ever near.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.”
“Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus.”
“Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.”
Source: All She Wrote
“Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .”
Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.”
“Not as she is, but as she fills his dream”
Source: Poems and prose
“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”
Source: The Demon of the Flower