N Quotes
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“Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.”
“Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.”
“Not the labors of my hands
Can fulfill thy Law's demands:
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for Sin could not atone:
Thou must save, and Thou alone!”
“Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.”
Source: Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
“Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.”
“Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate.”
Source: East Side Story: A Novel
“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.”
“Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.”
“Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.”
“Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.”
“Not the Manila you see on CNN or BBC, whose interest in Manila or the Philippines is mostly limited to its poverty or its morally bankrupt political system or its many Climate Change-induced disasters.”
Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official
“Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.”
“Not the one who does not have an umbrella, but the one who does not like the rain, gets wet most under the rain!”
“Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.”
“Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.”
“Not the outcome any of us wanted.”
“Not the past, not the future, life is now.”
“Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.”
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
Source: The Nazarene
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.”
Source: The Nazarene
“Not the prettiest girl in the world, maybe, but cute and quick and fun to have around.”
Source: Revolutionary Road
“Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words.”
Source: Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed
“Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.”
Source: The Woman in White: A Novel
“Not the shattered or slashed works to which Alena thrilled, but those objects in the archive that both were and weren't different moved me: they had been redeemed, both in the sense that the fetish had been converted back into cash, the claim paid out, but also in the messianic sense of being saved from something, saved for something. An art commodity that had been exorcised (and survived the exorcism) of the fetishism of the market was to me a utopian readymade–an object for or from a future where there was some other regime of value than the tyranny of price.”
Source: 10:04
“Not the shoes on her feet, or the clothes that she wears, but the abundant joy she shares everywhere.”
Source: Angie Loves to Dance: Finding Joy in Life's Adventures
“Not the slow Hearse, where nod the sable plumes,
The Parian Statue, bending o'er the Urn,
The dark robe floating, the dejection worn
On the dropt eye, and lip no smile illumes;
Not all this pomp of sorrow, that presumes
It pays Affection's debt, is due concern
To the FOR EVER ABSENT, tho' it mourn
Fashion's allotted time. If Time consumes,
While Life is ours, the precious vestal-flame
Memory shou'd hourly feed;—if, thro' each day,
She with whate'er we see, hear, think, or say,
Blend not the image of the vanish'd Frame,
O! can the alien Heart expect to prove,
In worlds of light and life, a reunited love!”
Source: Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace
“Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.”
“Not the talent and even not the skill, but only the vision is the reflection of the spiritual reality.”
“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”
“Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.”
Source: On Liberty
“Not the waves, not the storms, but often we ourselves sink our ships!”
“Not the way you long for the future, for the summer, or for a holiday, but the way you long to get back to yourself. To how it was 'in our day,' even though that time never really existed except in our filtered memories. You long to be the person you think you were, during some sort of youth when you tell yourself that life was uncomplicated, or the man you imagine you could have been if only you had the chance to do everything again. Not longing for that is difficult for most people, and for some it is all but impossible.”
Source: The Winners
“Not the why but the what.”
“Not the world but the world you have created within the world determines the degree of your happiness or unhappiness!”
“Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.”
“Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.”
Source: The Thought of Blaise Pascal: Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul...
“Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“Not then and not now. Perfect. That's great. You didn't tell me you were leaving and now that you're back, you won't tell me why any of it happened. Fantastic.”
Source: The Price of Passion
“Not then and there. Here and now.”
Source: As Good As Dead
“not there yet and loving every minute”
“Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.”
“Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.”
“Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.”
“Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.”
Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.”