N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.”
“Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same view twice. Not going back so you can turn a new page, write a new chapter, develop an entire new list. Not going back so you can stretch and grow and see yourself in a light that you never knew existed. Not going back so that you can fly. Fly.”
“Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!”
“Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.”
“Not going to walk me to the door?" I asked, pretending to be shocked at his lack of gallantry.
"Of course I am. many would think that a bonny lass such as yerself wouldst be able to stay out of trouble for a distance of fifteen feet, but I know better."
"Did you just use the words yerself and wouldst in the same sentence? You can't be a pirate and a courtier at the same time, Dev. It just isn't done.”
Source: Raised by Wolves
“Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.”
“Not good vs evil. Only good vs evil is inside of you”
“Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
Nor flight from all distress, but this:
The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.”
“Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.”
Source: Delirium
“Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Not half as much as I’d miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash’s shoulder.) Please don’t hurt me, Ash. Please. I don’t want to die while I’m still a virgin. At least let me get laid before you kill me – which according to my mom I can’t do until I’m married and I can’t do that until I finish college. So you have to wait a good ten years before you snuff me. Deal? (Nick)”
Source: Infinity: Chronicles of Nick
“Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”
Source: Stray Birds
“Not happening. I’m getting you out, one way or another.”
Source: Reckoning
“Not hard to figure out, just hard to help.”
Source: The Republic of East L.A.
“Not hard to find is that roseal fever of the gods, that fanfare of supernal trumpets and clash of immortal cymbals, that mystery whose place and meaning have haunted you through the halls of waking and the gulfs of dreaming, and tormented you with hints of vanished memory and the pain of lost things awesome and momentous. Not hard to find is that symbol and relic of your days of wonder, for truly, it is but the stable and eternal gem wherein all that wonder sparkles crystallised to light your evening path.”
“Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun and laugh and there're days that are more intense than others, but we're there to make it better. He's always going to try and make it better, I'm always going to try and make it better. So you accept anything, you accept whatever it takes to get it up on the screen and make it worthy.”
“Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.”
“Not having a contingency plan or never performing risk analysis and mitigation activities is like not having an insurance plan for yourself.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.”
“Not having a group consciousness, whites often respond defensively when grouped with other whites, resenting what they see as unfair generalizations. Individualism prevents us from seeing ourselves as responsible for or accountable to other whites as members of a shared racial group that collectively benefits from racial inequality.”
Source: What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy
“Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.”
“Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.”
“Not having a private life is hard.”
“Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.”
“Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a programmer working on the next Duke Nukem and we'll ship when we're good and ready. But for almost any kind of real business, you just have to know how long things are going to take, because developing a product costs money.”
“Not having a script for your life is having the worst kind of script for your life.”
“Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.”
“Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.”
Source: Hagridden
“Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.”
“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
Source: Platform: A Novel
“Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!”
“Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.”
Source: Plays by Susan Glaspell
“Not having expected an event makes it seem way better or worse than it really is.”
“Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.”
“Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.”
“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”
Source: Xunzi: Books 7-16
“Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card company or the phone company over some fee, some little charge, some mistake”
Source: Having and Being Had
“Not having money isn't a personal failing. Having it is almost always an accident of birth or pure luck. I understand that not being able to pay for things feels like a failure, but it isn't. You haven't done anything wrong.”
Source: Fluke and the Faithless Father
“Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42)”
“Not having self-worth can be detrimental to your health, wealth, success, relationships, parenting ability, happiness, and probably a lot more. It ruins your experience of life. Worth is like a light switch. Low self-worth switches the light off. You live in the darkness and the shadows, unable to see all the beautiful things in the world around you. By increasing self-worth, the light switches on. Now you can see all the beauty life has to offer in all its colorful glory.”
“Not having self-worth is the most excruciating existence. It is like being stuck in a room for years (like however many you’ve been alive) with a person that hates your guts. Can you imagine that? Stuck in a room with someone constantly telling you how much you suck and sitting there with their arms folded, secretly wishing that you would just die already, and giving you judgmental looks. Who would put up with that? When we think about it this literally, it’s easy to realize just how crazy it is that we’ve lived all this time disliking our own selves.”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“Not having the best situation,
but
seeing the best in your situation
is
the key to happiness.”
“Not having to force yourself to love or hate, is liberating.”
“Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.”
“Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.”
“Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.”
“Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.”
Source: Childhood
“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody