N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Not fair,” I muttered. “Your sword was bigger than mine.”
“My sword is bigger than everyone’s.”
I lobbed my controller at his head, but of course he ducked and made me miss. Damn it. “Perv.”
“Oh, come on,” he laughed. “You walked right into that one, Duffy.”
I scowled at him for a moment, but I could feel the aggravation slipping away. Finally, I just shook my head… and smiled. “Okay, you’re right. I did leave that one wide open. But you know, boys that talk big never are.”
Wesley frowned. “We both know that isn’t true. I’ve proved it to you plenty of times.” He smirked, then leaned against me, letting his lips brush against my ear. “But I can prove it again if you want me to… and you know you want me to.”
“I… I don’t think that’s necessary,” I managed. His lips were moving down my neck, sending an electric current up my spine.
“Oh,” he growled playfully. “I do.”
I laughed as he shoved me to the floor, one of his hands perfectly catching the space above my left hip where I was most ticklish. He’d discovered that spot a couple of weeks ago, and I was furious with myself for letting him use it against me. Now he could make me squirm and laugh uncontrollably whenever he wanted, and I could tell that he totally got off on it. Jerk.
His fingers probed the sensitive spot over my hip as his mouth moved from my collarbone to my ear. I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe. Not fair. So not fair. I made a halfhearted attempt to kick him away, but he trapped my leg between his and proceeded to tickle me harder.”
Source: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
“Not fair,” I whisper.
“No, darlin’, I suppose it’s not fair. I never did play fair though, you know that. Especially when it comes to you.”
Source: Tragic Beauty
“Not fair, is it? When it’s your generation’s turn to grow, to create a legacy, to pursue dreams, to fall in love, to build a life, you get stuck in awar.’
She paused, flicking through the pictures again.
‘And the only way you can contribute to the world is by taking pictures of rubble and burnt-out cars and dead bodies. All the time hoping thatsomeone, somewhere will care and help put an end to it… But it ends you
first.’
Saahil grunted in response. He couldn’t speak.
‘That’s gotta be even worse, right?’ Zahra asked, looking at him intently. ‘When you’ve dedicated your whole life to a cause but then… you die. So you’ll never find out how things turned out. If your family survived. If there was ever peace. If your country rebuilt itself.”
Source: The family tree
“Not fair! Okay, what's the record? How many times?
If you can count them, he didn't drop you out.
Nadine groaned, shuddered, grinned. 'Bitch.”
“Not fair to use your powers on the mat.' Magical. Sexual. Whatever. It's all unfair.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and know you'll survive until your eighteenth birthday." Then the kid was going, "Uh, I didn't mean..." But Tad wasn't done yet. While the whole class watched in horror, he put his hands through the metal support braces on the arms of his wheelchair and forced himself to stand up. Then he took a shaky little step to the side, gestured toward the chair, and said, "Why don't you take a turn with the laptop? You can even have my seat.”
“Not faith, but blind faith is the biggest obstacle to eyes, mind, heart and spine.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Not faith in the beyond, but only doubt
can make you, sorry soul, a bit less wretched.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“Not fake
Inside every feeling lies her quiet presence,
A feeling that influences me more like a sense,
A sense that surges above all other senses,
Creating inside me a universe of new emotional resonances,
Which fill me with her thoughts and new feelings,
And life begins to stir and somewhere in the mind a thought rings,
That possesses my every sense and now I see her in all things,
And what a pleasure it is to notice her presence in these sightings,
Offering a changed view of reality,
A new prayer in the same old temple with the primitive deity,
That resides in my heart’s nativity,
And experiences moments of rejoicement in my mind that is the master of just one faculty,
That of always persuading the heart to just beat for her sake,
Even if that means putting the very purpose of my life at stake,
But now, together; the heart and mind a beautiful world make,
Where she is always real and not a part of a feeling fake!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“Not fame, but wisdom is the beauty of life.”
“Not far, but near,
I stood and saw it all,
Behind low boughs the trees let down outside;
And the sweet pang it cost me not to call
And tell you that I saw does still abide.
But 'tis not true that thus I dwelt aloof,
For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof.”
Source: A Boy's Will
“Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans -- the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."”
“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”
Source: The Cyberiad
“Not far from me, a little girl is sitting on the aisle seat. A peach glows in her hand. Moments ago she asked her mother, What do we miss the most when we die? And I almost responded. But her mother put a thick finger on her lips: Shh, children should not talk about death, and she looked at me for a brief second, apologetically. Food, I almost said to the girl. We miss peaches, strawberries, delicacies like Sandhurst curry, kebab pasanda and rogan josh. The dead do not eat marzipan. The smell of bakeries torments them day and night.”
Source: Chef
“Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.”
“Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.”
“Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh, basically a star is a pretty simple thing.' And from the back of the room was heard the voice of R. O. Redman, saying, 'Well, Fred, you'd look pretty simple too, from ten parsecs!”
“not fare well, but fare forward”
“Not fat, just not anorexic. She's soft in all the right places.”
Source: Gena Showalter's Atlantis Series Bundle: Heart of the Dragon\Jewel of Atlantis\The Nymph King\The Vampire's Bride\The Amazon's Curse
“Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.”
Source: The black jewels trilogy
“Not federal government's job to do good deeds.”
“Not feeling broody, as such. Just happy to see my sister have such a beautiful kid.”
“Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire”
“Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow”
“Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.”
Source: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume
“Not fighting isn’t the same as giving up, and letting go isn’t the same as turning your back.”
Source: Promise Me Tomorrow
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“Not fitting is it that the Elder Children of Ilúvatar should wed the Younger; nor is it wise, for they are brief, and soon pass, to leave us in widowhood while the world lasts. Neither will fate suffer it, unless it be once or twice only, for some high cause of doom that we do not perceive. But this man is not Beren, even if he be both as fair and as brave. A doom lies on him; a dark doom. Enter not into it! And if you will, your love shall betray you to bitterness and death.”
Source: The Children of Húrin
“Not flowers—never flowers in Terrasen. Instead, they carried small stones to graves to mark their visits, to tell the dead that they still remembered.
Stones were eternal—flowers were not.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“Not follow me but follow the lyrics.”
“Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Not following up with your prospects is the same as filling up your bathtub without first putting the stopper in the drain.”
Source: Selling Simplified
“Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.”
“Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.”
“Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn’t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater than that. It far outweighed the alienation of all the previous years. Bones thought five months was too short; I was amazed I’d been granted joy for so long. “I love you,” he moaned, or maybe I said it. I couldn’t tell the difference anymore. The lines had dissolved between us.”
“Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he did not risk writing them down. "I'd rather take it to my grave," he said. And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie, " he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.”
“Not for all the whiskey in heaven
Not for all the flies in Vermont
Not for all the tears in the basement
Not for a million trips to Mars
Not if you paid me in diamonds
Not if you paid me in pearls
Not if you gave me your pinky ring
Not if you gave me your curls
Not for all the fire in hell
Not for all the blue in the sky
Not for an empire of my own
Not even for peace of mind
No, never, I'll never stop loving you
Not till my heart beats its last
And even then in my words and my songs
I will love you all over again”
“Not for any one man's delight has Nature made
the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.”
“Not for everyone a darkest night is bid farewell by a bright sunrise.”
“Not for Fun, Why so Hilarious? [Part 1]
If someone wants to shut your mouth, you have every right to show him your middle finger;
If someone wants to rag you, you have every right to show him your rage;
If someone wants to spy you, you have every right to hack him;
If someone wants to fake you, you have every right to flirt with him;
If someone wants to rank you, you have every right to prank him;
If someone wants to question you, you have every right to irritate him with your answers;
If someone wants to know your value, you have every right to reveal his worth;
If someone wants to call you a psycho, you have every right to shock him with your treatment;
If someone wants to test you, you have every right to prepare him for your exam;
If someone wants to spoil you, you have every right to damage him;
If someone wants to stop you, you have every right to hit him;
If someone wants to flop you, you have every right to spoof him;
If someone wants to touch you, you have every right to hunt him;
If someone wants to bar you, you have every right to crush him;
If someone wants you to beg, you have every right to toss him;
If someone wants you to wait, you have every right to waste his time;
If someone wants you to be silent, you have every right to test his patience;
‘Indian Shakespeare”
“Not for Fun, Why so Hilarious? [Part 2]
If someone wants to laugh at you, you have every right to make fun of him;
If someone wants to act with you, you have every right to play with his emotions;
If someone wants to irritate you, you have every right to stress him;
If someone wants to hate you, you have every right to date him;
If someone wants to reject you, you have every right to make him hopeless;
If someone wants to blackmail you, you have every right to piss him off;
If someone wants to order you, you have every right to be disobedient to him;
If someone wants to be hot with you, you have every right to boil him;
If someone wants to fade you, you have every right to make him know his fate;
If someone wants to betray you, you have every right to ill-treat him;
If someone wants to crime you, you have every right to punish him;
If someone wants to destroy you, you have every right to fight him;
If someone wants to tease you, you have every right to make him know your punch;
If someone wants to kick you, you have every right to make him kick your goal;
If someone wants to hang you, you have every right to make him your bottleneck;
If someone wants to show you his anger, you have every right to make him know your temperament;
If someone wants you to be his slave, you have every right to make him serve you;
‘Indian Shakespeare”
“Not for Fun, Why so Hilarious? [Part 2]
If someone wants to shut your mouth, you have every right to show him your middle finger;
If someone wants to rag you, you have every right to show him your rage;
If someone wants to spy you, you have every right to hack him;
If someone wants to fake you, you have every right to flirt with him;
If someone wants to rank you, you have every right to prank him;
If someone wants to question you, you have every right to irritate him with your answers;
If someone wants to know your value, you have every right to reveal his worth;
If someone wants to call you a psycho, you have every right to shock him with your treatment;
If someone wants to test you, you have every right to prepare him for your exam;
If someone wants to spoil you, you have every right to damage him;
If someone wants to stop you, you have every right to hit him;
If someone wants to flop you, you have every right to spoof him;
If someone wants to touch you, you have every right to hunt him;
If someone wants to bar you, you have every right to crush him;
If someone wants you to beg, you have every right to toss him;
If someone wants you to wait, you have every right to waste his time;
If someone wants you to be silent, you have every right to test his patience;
‘Indian Shakespeare”
“Not for Fun, Why so Hilarious? [Part 3]
If someone wants you to be bad, you have every right to make him feel bad;
If someone wants you to bend, you have every right to make him to take you a bow;
If someone wants to lock you, you have every right to keep his key with you;
If someone wants to shout at you, you have every right to slip your tongue with him;
If someone wants to disbelief you, you have every right to cheat him;
If someone wants to blop you, you have every right to make him clap for you;
If someone wants to know your potent, you have every right to make him impotent;
If someone wants to slap you, you have every right to make his mind block;
If someone wants to make you weak, you have every right to pull him down;
If someone wants to point at you, you have every right to cut his tail;
If someone wants to define you, you have every right to refine him;
If someone wants to enmity you, you have every right to make him die for you;
If someone wants to threaten you, you have every right to disclose his secrets;
If someone wants to play with your bad time, you have every right to make him as your comedy time;
If someone wants to scold you, you have every right to talk with him in your mother slang;
If someone wants to see your downfall, you have every right to fuck him off;
If someone wants to kill you, you have every right to fix his funeral;
Afterall, our life is full of air with a body full of hair …. !!!
‘Indian Shakespeare”
“Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt in the forest.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited
“Not for me the languor and the subtlety I had read about in books. The challenge and the chase. The sword-play, the swift glance, the stimulating smile. The art of provocation was unknown to me . . .”
Source: Rebecca
“Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.”
“Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.”