N Quotes
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“Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1935-1938
“Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1927-1934
“Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling.”
Source: Berlin Childhood Around 1900
“not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state
“Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.”
“Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.”
“Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.”
“Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a general. And I am religious. I believe that no one can approach me except God.”
“Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.”
Source: The Chief: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
“Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.”
“Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.”
“Not to get all Game of Thrones on ya, but you can call me Phoebe of the House Robinson, First of Her Name, the Blerd, Drinker of Rose and Also Chardonnay when Rose Is Not An Option, Khaleesi of Ignorance, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Trash.”
Source: Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
“Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.”
“Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.”
“Not to get too depressing, I've always been a slight whirling dervish in my life. I've always been at once a very spritely and energetic hilarious lady, but at the same time there is an equal dark side that's as comparable to the jovial - constantly walking on the high wire trying to figure out who to be each day.”
“Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.”
“Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican candidate's sex tape?”
“Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.”
“Not to give Weston any credit but ...well. No, I'm not even going to say he was right. But he might not have been all wrong.”
Source: Kincaid
“Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.”
“Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to eat Flesh nor Fish; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to claw Bark of Tree; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”
Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.”
Source: Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders
“Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there”
“Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it becomes a vice). In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our caterpillar nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists and quacks. The genius of the human child, mental caterpillar extraordinary, is for soaking up information and ideas, not for criticizing them. If critical faculties later grow it will be in spite of, not because of, the inclinations of childhood. The blotting paper of the child's brain is the unpromising seedbed, the base upon which later the sceptical attitude, like a struggling mustard plant, may possibly grow. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive scepticism of adult science.”
Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
“Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.”
“Not to have a confused church is to teach paramount importance of the truth”
“Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.”
Source: Arms and the Covenant
“Not to have an audience is a kind of death.”
Source: Silences
“Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.”
“Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.”
“Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.”
Source: The desert year
“Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.”
Source: The Republic
“Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
“Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.”
“Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.”
“Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.”
“Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.”
Source: The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management
“Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.”
“Not to just say you need to be a good person - but, better, find the good that you already have in yourself and don't deny that, don't let the world talk you out of the good things because it's not hip or cool. Sooner or later, you have to live with yourself.”
“Not to knock the people who've given me the opportunity; I appreciate all the opportunities I've gotten, but one of the things I think I really learned from the features I got to direct is that your job as a director is everything about the movie. It's to pick a story that's really worth making, and make sure that the basic components are there. You're not just a part of the team. You're really in charge, and the responsibility falls on you if all the components aren't there for a worthwhile film.”
“Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.”
Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
“Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.”
“Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.”
Source: Sayings of J. Krishnamurti
“Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.”
Source: The Metaphysics
“Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.”
“Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.”