N Quotes
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“Not this again,” I moaned. “Jonathon, there are more important things in this world than me.”
He looked thoughtful. “You’re right,” he said and I thought I might finally be getting through to him. He continued, “Chocolate gelato,” he grinned.”
Source: Forbidden
“Not this or that
But all is amiss,
That I have done,
And I have seen
Sin and sorrow
Befoul the world -
Release me, death,
Forgive, remove
From place and time
The trace of all
That I have been.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine
“Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.”
“Not though you die to-night,
O Sweet, and wail,
A spectre at my door,
Shall mortal Fear make Love immortal fail -- I shall but love you more,
Who, from Death's House returning,
give me still One moment's comfort in my matchless ill.”
Source: 100 Poems: Old and New
“Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided...but by iron and blood.”
“Not thus, from cursed lightness having disembarked,
I look with worry on the chambers dark?
Already used to ringing high and raw,
Already judged not by the earthly law,
I, like a criminal, am being drawn along
To place of shame and execution long.
I see the glorious city, and the voice most dear,
As though there is no secret grave to fear,
Where day and night, in heat and in cold bent,
I must await the Final Judgment...”
“Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.”
Source: Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.
“Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.”
Source: The Journals of Mary Butts
“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.”
Source: The Egoist
“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!”
Source: The Egoist
“Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.”
“Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.”
“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”
“Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.”
“Not tingling as much as a rapid-burning desire and longing. I want him to f**k me. Right here. Right now.”
Source: Double Agent
“Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.”
“Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?”
Source: DON JUAN
“Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.”
Source: The Best of Confucius
“Not to anticipate is already to moan.”
“Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.”
“Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.”
“Not to ask is not be denied.”
“Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Not to bash Los Angeles, but there is always a feeling in LA of where your stock is. Are you the top of the heap at the moment or do you have the blockbuster, did you get cast in that thing?”
“Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.”
“Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.”
“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.”
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.”
“Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian
“Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.”
Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology
“Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.”
Source: Village Diary
“Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.”
“Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.”
“Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.”
“Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.”
“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man has seen the light, this is next best by far, that all speed he should go thither, whence he hath come.”
“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.”
“Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.”
“Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.”
Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.”
“Not to be confused with Spider-Man's other girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, who is a skank and doesn't love him like I do.”
“Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.”
Source: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers
“Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.”
“Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.”
“Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which God has given us against our greatest enemy. If we neglect to make use of what we have received, God may justly hold his hand from giving us more. His graces, as well as his gifts, are bestowed on us to use, exercise, and trade with. Not to be daily mortifying sin is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who has furnished us with a principle of doing it.”
Source: The Mortification of Sin
“Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.”
Source: Overcoming Temptation and Sin
“Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me”
“Not to be inedible here, but he is a prince and you are staying in his castle. I wouldn't piss him off.”
“I think you mean indelicate,” Prudence corrected.
“That's what I said,” the woman insisted. “Now, get your rump across the hall and take care of that man! And if you're a decent human being, you'll tell us all about it later!”
--From "Big Love”
Source: Wicked Fairy Tales: The Curvy Collection