N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not only is obeying the Author of the Word a gateway to favour and grace, it is also a gateway to a well-run race.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.”
“Not only is our humanity prone to self-sabotage, but it also exhibits a certain fickleness in our nature. This inconsistency is also to some extent responsible for our willingness to pass the buck.
Furthermore, it often makes us appear unstable and insecure in our ways. We can be subject to mood swings, oscillating between humility and arrogance; peacefulness and violence; or between happiness and sadness.
This irregularity displayed in our nature is responsible for why we vacillate between actions. It might be in our nature to be good and kind, but we lean towards cruelty and brutality.”
Source: Embrace the Challenge: Turn the Negatives into Positives in Your Life
“Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.”
Source: A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-rearing
“Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.”
“Not only is prayer a weapon on the battlefield, it is also a shield in times of need.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.”
“Not only is religion thriving, but it is thriving because it helps people to adapt and survive in the world. In his book Darwin's Cathedral, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson argues that religion provides something that secular society doesn't: a vision of transcendent purpose. Consequently, religious people have a zest for life that is, in a sense, unnatural. They exhibit a hopefulness about the future that may exceed what is warranted by how the world is going. And they forge principles of morality and charity that simply make them more cohesive, adaptive, and successful than groups whose members lack this binding and elevating force.”
Source: What's So Great About Christianity
“Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.”
“Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.”
“Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to be caused by a malfunctioning uterus — there is a very long history of critics using accusations or innuendo about women's mental health or emotional stability in order to shut down their political voices.”
“Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous
“Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.”
Source: The Religions of Man
“Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.”
“Not only is the lower astral realm made up of our collective negative thoughts and emotions, but we continually feed it through our negativity, including negative forms of entertainment. Violent movies, television shows, and music that exaggerate people's fears and cruel behavior may seem exciting but they only exacerbate the baser thoughts of society. The creators of such negative images may be under the influence of ghosts of the lower astral world. All is energy, and negative energy like fear, anger and hate becomes imbedded in the lower astral level.”
Source: Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side
“Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.”
Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959
“Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people.”
Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
“Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.”
“Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.”
“Not only is the system distorted by its bias towards investing in what
happens to be profitable, but even within that sphere there is no reason
to expect the profit motive to lead to a well-balanced pattern of
investment. This has always been a weak point in the neo-classical
system. The doctrine that, under conditions of free competition, given
resources are used to yield maximum satisfaction, applies essentially to
an equilibrium position. It can be demonstrated only by assuming that an
equilibrium exists and showing that a /departure /from it would be
harmful (it also has to assume, of course, that the distribution of
income is somehow what it ought to be). Walras had the ingenious idea of
making the inhabitants of his market “shout” their offers until the
equilibrium has been found, and then start actual trading at the
equilibrium prices. It is pure effrontery to extend this kind of
equilibrium conception to investment; an equilibrium pattern of
investment worked out on this system is possible only in a fully planned
economy (if there). [p. 125]”
Source: Economic philosophy
“Not only is the universal pursuit of self-interest the Reality, it is also the Ideal — if life is an eternal democracy.”
“Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Happiness
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
“Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.”
“Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.”
Source: Works
“Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.”
“Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.”
“Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.”
“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.”
“Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?”
“Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.”
Source: How to Converse with God
“Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.”
Source: The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People
“Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.”
“Not only is this teacher educating her children in violence, she also has to continuously escalate her own violence to keep control. Her method of teaching breeds disrespect and prejudice. Her students have been dehumanized.”
Source: Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence
“Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking.”
“Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.”
“Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.”
“Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.”
“Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.”
Source: Conversations with Gloria Naylor
“Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.”
“Not only lips, and mouth, and tongue, but mind, and affections;
not only knee, and hand, and eye,
but heart, and conscience, and memory,
must be pressed to attend upon God in worship.Jesus replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.”
Matt 22/37”
“Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.”
“Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor.”
“Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.”
“Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.”
“Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.”
Source: Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy