N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not many people can imagine a president of the Parlement of Aix—it is a species of beast of which people have often spoken without knowing it well: strict and unbending by profession, and pernickety, credulous, stubborn, vain, cowardly, garrulous and stupid by character; with a beaky little face, rolling his 'r's like a Punchinello, commonly as thin as a rake, lanky and skinny and stinking like a corpse...”
Source: Betrayal
“Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.”
Source: Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon
“Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.”
“Not many people carry out thoughts they know going into it are stupid…morons not included. (Apollymi)”
“Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.”
“Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.”
“Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.”
“Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.”
“Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.”
“Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.”
“Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.”
“Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous.”
“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”
“Not many people know this, but I literally own only one pair of heels!”
“Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow.”
“Not many people like it when they get criticism. Of course, if you have someone who does tell you and you do have a rapport, that's great. But don't rely on it. You have to rely on yourself.”
“Not many people realise the superpower of being polite when you’re angry.”
“Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.”
“Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.”
“Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.”
“Not many people traveled this close to the Blackened Forest—a vast swath of the Rockies where the trees were black as soot and hard as stone, petrified for all eternity, frozen in time—but those that did were precisely the kind you’d expect in this hostile world: calloused, alone, and harboring a death wish. Most importantly, however, it was home to dozens of contract Slayer teams, one of which she was here to find.”
“Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time.”
“Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It's like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic.”
“Not many people understood her.
She loved visiting temples.
She loved children and flowers, simple things and actually everything reminded her of God's Love.
She found Kindness more beautiful than anything of this world.
She breathed in Faith and trusted God no matter what.
She was free as a bird and travelled far and wide only to know in her heart that one day she will find what Her Soul's been searching for since eternity in God's Timing.
She was often looked at as pretty and intelligent, and she loved the compliments but when someone called her Godloving that stole her heart.
She loved dreams and knew that all she ever wants is a Man who could walk beside her, hand in hand, living dreams and following passions in a journey of Love's adventure.
She didn't just want to be a wife, she wanted to be a partner in dreams, a co-sharer of aspirations, a travel mate through the happiness and difficulties of Life.
She wasn't looking for a smooth sail, she knew every bond has trying moments, just that she wanted someone who would stand by her every step of the way, just like she would have his back every single time.
She wasn't looking for a hero, she was looking for an equal, a soul-counterpart sailing through life with Love, Respect and Passion.
She wasn't looking for a ring, she was waiting for a Heart that was already written in the stars as hers forever.
And she knew no matter what, someday someone will come who will bend his knees before God and ask Him to make her all of his, not just for a temporary timespan but for lifetimes that their souls needed to take human shape in.
She knows someday she wouldn't visit temples alone, someone would stand right beside her and together they would pray for the family that would create in the blessings of Him who has already got it all planned.
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and the right person would understand her because God understands Souls and Love.”
“Not many people understood the inherent pain of a career in heroics. Your body aches from the demands of day-to-day protection. Your mind whirs with the things you did wrong, the ways you could’ve done better, the scores of citizens you didn’t save. And when you lose someone you love, when their blood forms a puddle beneath your cheek while you watch… Your name, Watcher, becomes the cruelest agony of all.”
Source: To the Fifth Power
“Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.”
“Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii “invited” aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chorus of shrieks and whimpers as he passed. When he arrived on the bridge, everyone was face down on the deck, each endeavoring to grovel lower than the next. Nothing like discipline to keep the crew in its place.”
Source: Black Sunrise
“Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.”
“Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.”
“Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.”
“Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.”
Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
“Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.”
“Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays its often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources its a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.”
Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly the first one. Of course they liked the book better! It was full of magic and contradictions that they could quote to reinforce their bigoted and hateful opinions, as I well know, for I chose many parts of it from among the scrolls and epistles that were lying around in caves here and there. They're correct that a god picked out the material; they just have the wrong god doing it.”
Source: The Visitor
“Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn
And broils roots out the work of masonry,
Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till judgement that yourself arise,
You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Not mass production but production by the masses.”
“Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the 12th century, and in the Mohammedan world after the 15th century.”
Source: Great Ideas Made Simple
“Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Not me. I wouldn’t want to know my future.”
“Me neither,” Matthias admitted. “I’d rather change the
past.”
Source: Cove of Storms
“Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”
Source: Bleeding Edge: A Novel
“Not me," said Orion cheerily. "I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say ,young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction." Holly lifted her visor and looked the hormonal teenager in the eye. "This had better not be a game, Artemis. If you do not have some serious psychosis, you will be sorry." "Oh, I'm crazy, alright. I do have plenty of psychoses," said Orion Cheerily. "Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.”
“Not me. Give me honesty anytime.”
Source: Storm Born
“Not meaning any disrespect, sir, but I’m not sure that’s the kind of thing I like you saying in front of my girl.”
Source: Outmatched
“Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.”
“Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.”
“Not mentally. But I haven't the courage of my views, as I said before. I didn't marry him altogether because of the scandal. But sometimes a woman's LOVE OF BEING LOVED gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“Not mercy. Respect, she says. Compassion, she says. Mercy assumes you have power. Something you can decide to give or not. Compassion is kind anyway.”
“Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.”
“Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith”