N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.”
“Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.”
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.”
Source: The Poems and Ballads of Schiller
“Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!”
Source: Mystery Tales
“Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
Source: THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; Containing All His ORIGINAL POEMS, TALES, AND TRANSLATIONS, IN FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME THE SECOND
“Not here. Not now”
Source: All the Bright Places
“Not here to match expectations—I’m here to redefine them.”
“Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.”
“Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.”
“Not his fault Mase was broke as a joke, and not even a super witty joke, but like a full-out Fozzie Bear cringefest.”
Source: Intelligence Check
“Not his real home, his real home, the one he never named any more, was the dark and sooty chamber in his heart that contained his sister and his brother and, because it was an accommodating kind of space, the entire filthy history of the industrial revolution.”
Source: When will there be good news?
“Not homes with beautiful roofs,
nor walls of permanent stone,
nor canals and piers for ships
make the city—but men of strength.
Not stone and timber, nor skill
of carpenter—but men brave
who will handle sword and spear.
With these you have a city and walls.”
“Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.”
“Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.”
“Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.”
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
“Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!”
“NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.”
Source: Walt Whitman
“Not I, but the city teaches.”
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition
“Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.”
“Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Not if I know myself at all.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“Not if Their Party were waiting,
Not if to talk with Me
Were to Them now, Homesickness
After Eternity.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use. This is one of his death traps.”
“Not if you like lies so much you want to live one”
Source: Human.4
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
“Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodged in.”
Source: Moby Dick
“Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.”
Source: Odd Hours
“Not in a million years.”
“Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.”
“Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.”
“Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.”
“Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
“Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.”
Source: AFRICAN GENISIS
“Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.”
“Not in my eyes, you aren’t. You’re as human as I am. Even if society doesn’t want to admit it because they’ve been trained to label people. You know what I think? This divisiveness would end in about two seconds if elitists like my family stopped telling their subjects to see people in a certain light.”
Source: Spirit and Fire
“Not in my eyes, you aren’t. You’re as human as I am. Even if society doesn’t want to admit it because they’ve been trained to label people. You know what I think? This divisiveness would end in about two seconds if elitists like my family stopped telling their subjects to see people in a certain light.” - Prince Caer Cymraeg”
Source: Spirit and Fire
“Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.”
“Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.”
“Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.”
Source: A Home Idyl: And Other Poems
“Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”
Source: Kéramos and Other Poems
“Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.”
“Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.”