N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.”
“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”
“Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.”
Source: Collected essays
“Not only does every Hebrew word have its own definition, but every Hebrew letter, within the word, has its own meaning. God placed before you a great banquet of universal truths. All this in 22 Hebrew letters. Every letter contains a progressive curriculum designed to teach you about this marvelous world that God gave us. These letters will flavor each word’s definition claiming its place in God’s well organized universe.”
Source: The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians
“Not only does everyone have their weaknesses, but everyone has weak moments. The longer you go without a moment of weakness increases the probability that the next moment will break you.”
Source: The Romantic and The Vile
“Not only does exercise keep the body young, but it also keeps the mind vital and promotes emotional well-being. The important thing is to start off slowly, find physical activities you enjoy, and do them regularly.”
“Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.”
“Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.”
Source: Imaginary Magnitude
“Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record.”
“Not only does he know how to pray, but he also knows how to live according to the Word. He is a godly man whose life testifies to the goodness of the Lord.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.”
“Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.”
“Not only does my world revolve around her, but she is my world. She's not just my reason for breathing, she's air itself. She's the meaning behind every one of my thoughts, every thrum of my pulse, every whisper of my conscience. She's my entire everything. It's as simple and as complex as that.”
Source: Forever with You
“Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ...And one drinks it.”
“Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.”
Source: Love and Living
“Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“Not only does the Atonement of Jesus Christ overcome the effects of the Fall of Adam and make possible the remission of our individual sins and transgressions, but His Atonement also enables us to do good and become better in ways that stretch far beyond our mortal capacities.”
“Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting.”
“Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.”
Source: Christianity and Democracy, the Rights of Man and Natural Law
“Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .”
“Not only does the modern person often think that sight is more important than sound - there's no objective evidence to indicate that. Many people, even audiologists who study the science of human speech and hearing, have assumed for a long time that the human ear evolved to hear the human voice, rather than the voice changing to fit the human ear. And the human ear is actually not a perfect match if we map its sensitivity to the different frequencies in the human range of hearing; it's an unequal curve, it's kind of a wavy line.”
“Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.”
Source: Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis
“Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.”
“Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding.”
“Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.”
Source: The Essays
“Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.”
Source: The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America
“Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.”
“Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.”
Source: Diets don't work
“Not only don't I know what tomorrow will bring, I'm still not entirely certain what yesterday brought?”
“Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!”
“Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal
seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
through freezing - a pleasant one.”
“Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.”
Source: Relic
“Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.”
“Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.”
“Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.”
“Not only had he looked at me, but he had looked with favour and longing, and though I knew it was only because the truth was hidden from him, yet I was glad of what I had, as a winter bird is, that will come to your hand for a little crumb, though in plenteous times she would but mock you from the topmost bough.”
Source: Precious Bane
“Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.”
“Not only had his housekeeper attempted to steal from him, but she'd refused to answer his questions, and- he surveyed the servants sent to wait upon him- if he wasn't mistaken she'd made sure to hide away the comeliest of his maids and footmen. Did she think him a satyr?
Well, perhaps she wasn't entirely mistaken in her judgement...
Val smirked as he shed his banyan- the only article of clothing he wore- and sauntered nude to the bath. He crooked a finger at the eldest and most worldly-looking of the footmen. If Mrs. Crumb thought to curtail his bedsport, she was going to be sadly disappointed.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“Not only had his wife Anna made Dostoyevsky’s creations possible, but, in a way, Anna was the [female] ideal behind his creations.”
Source: The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
“Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.”
Source: Where Things Come Back
“Not only has [Donlald] Trump adopted that tactic attacking usual suspects like The New York Times and The Washington Post, but he`s turning it back on the conservative media who invented it in the first place.”
“Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.”
“Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.”
Source: The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery
“Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.”
Source: On the Museum's Ruins
“Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.”
“Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.”
“Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.”
“Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.”
Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen