N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.”
Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.”
Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)
“Not for no cold did freeze,
Nor any cloud beguile
Th'eternal flowering spring”
“Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Not for nothing, guys, but a nuke will cause fires within a fifty-mile radius. We will need to be a lot further, if we plan to escape unscathed.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.”
“Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Not for one single day Can I discern my way, But this I surely know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I securely go.”
“Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.”
“Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be named as sensuous or emotional as such, perhaps derived from each and gave to each but in essence grew out of a deeper fund of temperament that he still could not altogether apprehend. The simple miner's daughter was not simple in character at all.”
Source: The Four Swans
“Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.”
Source: Medea
“Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?”
Source: The Thing About the Truth
“Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.”
“Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.”
Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)
“Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.”
Source: The Book of Strange New Things
“Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.”
Source: The wanderer
“Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.”
“Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible”
Source: Just Listen
“Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?”
“Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition
“Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might--Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.”
“Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.”
“Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.”
Source: Not a nice man to know: the best of Khushwant Singh
“Not forever,' he said onto my mouth. And though I knew it was a lie, I put my arms around his neck and kissed him.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken before. And she would put herself back together and go on, because the memory of having had Jem would be better than never having had him at all.”
Source: After the Bridge
“Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life.”
“Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.”
“Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.”
“Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.”
Source: The Wizard of London
“Not free at last, but free at first - be the first to question inhuman convention, be the first to question unjust law, be the first to question cruel logic, be the first to question a bigoted population.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?”
Source: Electra
“Not from his head was woman took,
As made her husband to o'erlook;
Not from his feet, as one designed
The footstool of the stronger kind;
But fashioned for himself, a bride;
An equal, taken from his side.”
“Not from my point of view....[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.”
“Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.”
Source: Sonnets and Other Poems
“Not Frozen. I'd rather be Hawkeye than anyone from Frozen”
Source: The Spire
“Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.”
“Not funny ha ha, funny weird.”
“Not gay, just never met the right woman.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“Not getting a straight answer is a straight answer.”
“Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.”
“Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.”
“Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.”
“Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.”
“Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.”
“Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.”
Source: Inch by inch: 45 haiku
“Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“Not giving up is being human.”
Source: Quantraz
“Not giving up is like continuous practice ꓽ you get better in the end.”
“Not God
with wine,
nor death,
nor hate for a cry,
but God with a song”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944