N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not Cassie for Cassandra. Or Cassie for Cassidy. Cassie for Cassiopeia, the constellation, the queen tied to her chair in the northern sky, who was beautiful but vain, placed in the heavens by the sea god Poseidon as a punishment for her boasting. In Greek, her name means “she whose words excel.”
“Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.”
“Not celibate are they who wear monastic garb and shut themselves away behind thick walls and massive iron gates, But
celibate are they whose hearts and minds are celibate, whether they be in cloisters or in the public marts.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“Not changing is not an option today, it has never been.”
Source: Quantraz
“Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.”
“Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.”
“Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.”
Source: Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H
“Not-choosing is also a choice”
“Not choosing something is a clear choice too.”
“Not Christ, but church doctrine was a major downgrade in theology existing hundreds and thousands of years prior, at the same time, european reductionism was a major downgrade in a wholesome life-centric understanding of truth.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West....
My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.”
“Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.”
“Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.”
“Not clothes, but what kind of accessories you spend your money on defines your class.”
Source: Naked Wisdom of the child
“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”
“Not coincidentally, the best way to parent a child is the same as the best way to treat other humans... with kindness, respect, compassion, honesty, acceptance, and peace.”
“Not committing the so-called deadly sins is not enough to avoid bad juju in this life, or the next. Those everyday little wrongdoings, like ingratitude, unkindness, and entitlement, are hefty cornerstones of karmic debt.”
“Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.”
Source: Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?
“Not complaining is sometimes a show off of tolerance or patience.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.”
Source: Essays on the Gita
“Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and you trust them. We're so young that it would almost be like if we lived in the same city, what would happen? We'd be living together. At least this way he's in the same boat as I am: We can go out and have our own lives and know that we have each other.”
“Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.”
“Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.”
“Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court. My equal in every way; she would wear my crown, sit on a throne beside mine. Never sidelined, never designated to breeding and parties and child rearing. My queen.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court. My equal in every way; she would wear my crown, sit on the throne beside mine.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.”
Source: Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings
“Not content with harassing me numerous times in a private office, an aggressive female manager started extending my extreme night shifts which would would make me really sick with shift work disorder, very high altitude sickness and workplace drug use.”
“Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.”
“Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.”
“Not courage alone, therefore, but an actual sense of your superiority should animate you as you go forward against the enemy. Confidence, out of a mixture of ignorance and good luck, can be felt even by cowards; but this sense of superiority comes only to those who, like us, have real reasons for knowing that they are better placed than their opponents. And when the chances on both sides are equal, it is intelligence that confirms courage.”
“Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28”
Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“Not creating delusions is enlightenment.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Not cry. Fly.
“I can’t fly,” Bran said. “I can’t, I can’t…”
How do you know? Have you ever tried?
The voice was high and thin. Bran looked around to see where it was coming from. A crow was spiraling down with him, just out of touch, following him as he fell. “Help me,” he said.
I’m trying, the crow replied…
The crow took to the air and flapped around Bran’s hand.
“You have wings,” Bran pointed out.
Maybe you do too.
Bran felt along his shoulders, groping for feathers.
There are different kinds of wings, the crow said…
Bran was falling faster than ever. The grey mists howled around him as he plunged toward the earth below. “What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful.
Teaching you how to fly.
“I can’t fly!”
You’re flying right now.
“I’m falling!”
Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said. Look down.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.”
“Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.”
Source: The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
“Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Not dating is a choice, not a failure.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart”
Source: Linger
“Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.”
“Not deep the poet sees, but wide.”
“Not depending on external gentleness and kindliness, one of the fundamental differences between male and female personalities is that the former tends to 'break' the opposite sex, but the latter to be broken by him. Male and female brains are designed to get pleasure from that breaking and being broken, respectively, within some acceptable limits. The more self-confident and stubborn a woman, the more intense unconscious desire to be broken by some aggressive and chauvinistic male intervention once. Not depending on how she would like to have the air of self-assured confidence, nothing could prevent her from dreaming of getting a hidden pleasure from it.”
“Not descending to sea level after developing high altitude sickness is a mistake that may come to haunt you a decade later.”
“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”
“Not different, but special!”
Source: Beyond the Deepwoods
“Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.”
“Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.”
“Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.”
“Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.”
Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
“Not doing harder than doing.”
Source: Emily's House