N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.”
Source: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945: The years 1935 to 1938
“Not as we ran, shouting and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace. Thank God!”
Source: War and Peace
“Not at all. Cooking is cool. I’ll make you one shaped like the moon.”
“Why the moon?”
“Because you remind me of the moon,” he said, and looked into his bowl. Sarah blushed.”
Source: Dreams
“Not at all. I mean, yeah, you're weird by teenage standards. But weird in a good way. I mean, it's your life, your liver, your brain cells. It's weird not to respect choice. Whether you're choosing to get pissed or go sober, or get high on weed or chocolate, everybody's gotta make their own choices.”
Source: Does My Head Look Big in This?
“Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women go for colors that don't arise in
nature. Each group thinks it's completely different than the others, but I don't see it that way. I've watched them looking at themselves in the mirror, and they're not interested in conforming or rebelling, they just want to walk out of here feeling like themselves again.”
Source: Five Flavors of Dumb
“Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the country have agreed to call magic 'white' when practised for lawful ends by duly authorized agents of the governing authority, and 'black' when practised by unauthorized persons for criminal ends. That is not to say that the principles of the science — or art — are not the same in either event. You should confine such terms as 'black' and 'white' to the objects for which the magic is performed, and not apply it to the science itself, which like all branches of knowledge is morally neutral —"
"But," protested Belphebe, "is't not that the spell used to, let us say, kidnap a worthy citizen be different from that used to trap a malefactor?"
"Verbally but not structurally," Chalmers went on. After some minutes of wrangling, Chalmers held up the bone of his drumstick. "I think I can, for instance, conjure the parrot back on this bone — or at least fetch another parrot in place of the one we ate. Will you concede, young lady, that that is a harmless manifestation of the art?"
"Aye, for the now," said the girl. "Though I know you schoolmen; say 'I admit this; I concede that,' are ere long one finds oneself conceded into a noose."
"Therefore it would be 'white' magic. But suppose I desired the parrot for some — uh — illegal purpose —"
"What manner of crime for ensample, good sir?" asked Belphebe.
"I — uh — can't think just now. Assume that I did. The spell would be the same in either case —"
"Ah, but would it?" cried Belphebe. "Let me see you conjure a brace of parrots, one fair, one foul; then truly I'll concede."
Chalmers frowned. "Harold, what would be a legal purpose for which to conjure a parrot?"
Shea shrugged. "If you really want an answer, no purpose would be as legal as any, unless there's something in gamelaws. Personally I think it's the silliest damned argument —”
Source: The Incompleat Enchanter
“Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.”
“Not at all. Those seven days were the best seven days I’d ever slept, because I knew my Sybil had too much of a head to ever give her heart over to a scoundrel who’d not appreciate her.” Her father chuckled. “I didn’t care if she married a servant, sailor, or lord. I cared that she found someone who loved her and appreciated her as she deserved.”
Source: One Winter with a Baron
“Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.”
“Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.”
Source: Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Not aware of any boundaries or any rules or any traditions abiding upon them, the water flows free and wild.
Not bothered about anything gone or left behind she eagerly rushes to the new dimension of her life knowing the best is yet to come.
Learn to be like that soul clean, compassionate, loving and strong enough to endure.”
Source: You Complete Me
“Not bad”? Are you kidding me? He looks like that and his kissing skills are “not bad”? You’re killing me here.”
Source: What Happens in New York
“Not bad for a bunch of castoffs and misfits.”
“Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)”
“Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.”
“Not basing your principles of sex based on the judgment of other or on hearsay, uphold yourself to virtues that you believe in. Before any laws created by man, religion, and culture; the universe has always held us under the principles of love in all endeavors in life, and this applies to sex as well. Sex is a very personal experience and the morals you follow under this act are a personal notion that you create yourself for the sake of your personal happiness.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.”
“Not because I had stopped loving him.
But because I wanted to be simply myself.”
Source: Before the Eyes of Passion
“Not because I'm a christian doesn't mean I'm not human”
“Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.”
“Not because of some Disney cartoon or fairytale,
I believe in a man who cherishes, loves and holds me and my personal space, who protects me, my loved ones and my integrity, a man who'll look into my eyes when we're 80 and see nothing but beauty.
Not because of some far-fetched romantic ideas,
but because that is exactly what I do for my loved one, and I don't need to be a prince to do so.”
“Not because of you. You were perfect. Are perfect. You’re considerate, moral, brave. But you reminded me…”He couldn’t finish.
I swallowed through a dry throat. “Of her.”
“No.” He blinked. “Of me. Who I used to be. Somebody who would stick up for his friends, even if it was risky. Somebody who put other people first. Somebody who…” He let out a helpless laugh. “Somebody who screwed up a lot.”
Source: The Wrong Side of Right
“Not because one of two things or more, if that's what must be faced and accepted so thinks wisely. Positive or negative depending on how we respond it. bitter or sore, happy or not it also have to be faced. Not because one feeling but two, not because of ego but because logical.Not because blind but truth, not because of its easy sacrifice. Not because we are not understood but rather to understand each other, not because we are not to love each other but because so loved.”
“Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.”
“Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.”
Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters
“Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.”
“Not because we think that it's still about to happen,
thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.
Human mind can't yet perceive the nature of future.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.”
“not before i have prayed in the rain,
washed the blood from these old bones,
not before i have stripped away everything
that remembers you and stepped into heaven
as a naked star”
Source: Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
“Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.”
“Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.”
“Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.”
“Not being able to be our true self or live authentically ultimately puts us under pressure. Even if you can endure it for a while, there will always be a limit, and eventually, it will become unbearable.”
“Not being able to dance anymore [was the hardest obstacle]. But, at the same time, I feel like that was one of the very first things that did give me that opportunity to say, "Are you gonna crumble here? Or maybe God has another destiny for your life and it's a different road than what you think it is?"”
“Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.”
“Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.”
“Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“Not being able to get any help from anyone while carrying it is what makes a heavy load much heavier than it is!”
“Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Not being able to live without someone is not love. It's need.”
“Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.”
Source: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
“Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.”
“Not being able to rebound better was a thorn in our foot.”
“Not being able to show one's true self or having to try to be what others want you to be can be very suffocating, regardless of the issue.”
“Not being able to sleep is a nightmare.”
“Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.”