N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.”
“Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.”
“Not to be mad is another form of madness”
“Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.”
“Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.”
Source: The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents
“Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.”
“Not to be nothing, but to understand that everything is and is not actually concrete.”
Source: Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
“Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.”
“Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.”
“Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
Source: The Moviegoer
“Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.”
“Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.”
“Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.”
Source: When She Was Good
“Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms.”
“Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertility treatments. I've done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant.”
“Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.”
“Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying society the last word.”
Source: Parade
“Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body you love most - it can be your arms, your chest, your legs - and emphasize that.”
“Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.”
“Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.”
Source: Poetry and prose in the sixteenth century
“Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.”
“Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.”
“Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.”
“Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.”
“Not to change the subject, but…you do realize you’ve been going over the speed limit for quite a few miles? Never mind. And thank you Professor Ludefance. Somehow, I think this lecture is meant for me, but I have a lot more interchange of material and energy with my environment than most.”
“In a physical sense, you’re not decaying at all, you’re a very vibrant young woman. The decay I’m speaking about for you is emotional. As for the professorship, that very lecture was given to me from a Turkish friend who had inherited a great deal of wealth and didn’t know what to do with himself. I learned this from him. As for you, you interact with your environment, but you are predatory, fearless, irritable, and listless. You’re getting no emotional feedback.”
“And just where do you suggest I go to look for ‘emotional feedback,’ Mr. Professor?”
“Aha. That’s the catch. You can’t. It’s not that mechanical. You merely have to be receptive and hope it comes along.”
“Meanwhile, I’m being ground down by the second law of thermodynamics.”
“In a sense, yes.”
“Thank you so much, Professor. I never would have known.”
Source: Appellate Judge
“Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!”
“Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.”
“Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.”
“Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.”
“Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?”
“Not to decide is a decision.”
“Not to decide is to decide.”
“Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.”
“Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?”
“Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.”
“Not to destroy but to construct,
I hold the unconquerable belief
that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
that nations will come together
not to destroy but to construct
and that the future belongs to those
who accomplish most for humanity.”
“Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.”
Source: Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken
“Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how important.”
“Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.”
Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
“Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.”
“Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.”
“Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.”
Source: Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine
“Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”
“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.”
Source: Narcissism: Denial of the True Self
“Not to fear for love is a growth for the soul, to know that there are no limitations or taboos to develop feelings for someone, regardless of genitalia, only to feel and not condemn oneself. Enjoy life as a nest of opportunities.”
“Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.”