N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any lasting importance for their development is a very recent invention (or insight if you wish).”
“Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).”
“Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.”
“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
“Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.”
Source: A Wave: Poems
“Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.”
“Not until Man needs to pay for free things, air and water, will he understand what it was to be human.”
Source: Finding Jesus
“Not until man sees the light and submits gracefully, moderating his homoecentricity; not until man accepts the primacy of beauty, diversity, and integrity of nature, and limits his dominion and numbers, placing equal value on the preservation of natural environments as on his own life, is there hope that he will survive.”
Source: Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot
“Not until midlife did she truly believe that she had a right to exist, that the forces of nature had created her not as an afterthought and companion - a bent rib, as the infamous Malleus Maleficarum had it - but as the mainstay of the continuing Creation, as the daughter of a daughter and a woman whose daughters in turn would bear daughters.”
Source: The witches of Eastwick
“Not until months afterwards did Jo understand how she had the strength of mind to hold fast to the resolution she had made when she decided she did not love her boy, and never could. It was very hard to do, but she did it, knowing the delay was both useless and cruel.”
Source: Little Women
“Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.”
“Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.”
“Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.”
Source: Life Together
“Not until something challenges you to rise up, you shall always stay down; not until you realize your enough is enough, you shall always have enough. When you keep exerting your energy, time and attention on things which least invoke your courage to rise up and climb to the distinctive best, you shall always stay at your best with the same energy, time and attention time on the less better you because of reluctance, ignorance and fear! The lion that hunts, is always on the move! Awake, challenge and change something!”
“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”
Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
“Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.”
“Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.”
Source: The Realm of the Nebulæ
“Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.”
“Not until we are faced with a crisis or sadness do we begin to remember that if we only laughed a bit more, loved a lot more, and felt the simplicity of loving ourselves-just a little more…this day would be the greatest day ever!”
“Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord”
“Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.”
“Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.”
Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
“Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially”
Source: Chariots of the gods: unsolved mysteries of the past
“Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India”
“Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.”
“Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.”
“Not until you separate yourself from time wasters and killers that you can effectively convert time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate and that then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs the world.”
“Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.”
Source: Beyond Horizons
“Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future that has removed procreation from woman's hands, there will also be no affect and no art. Men will be machines, without pain but also without pleasure. Imagination has a price, which we are paying every day. There is no escape from the biologic chains that bind us.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.”
“Not used to visiting the houses of commoners, are we, Prince Nicholas?'
'I'm not a prince,' said Nicholas. 'Technically, I'm a very minor baron.'
'Excuse me, your majesty.'
'The correct honorific is my lord.'
'No,' said Esther. 'Not even as a joke.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Not used to visiting the houses of commoners, awe we, Prince Nicholas?'
'I'm not a prince,' said Nicholas. 'Technically, I'm a very minor baron.'
'Excuse me, your majesty.'
'The correct honorific is my lord.'
'No,' said Esther. 'Not even as a joke.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.”
“Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.”
“Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.”
“Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“Not valuing wealth prevents theft.”
“Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.”
Source: The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle
“Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at a crossroads. It had old-fashioned store windows, with long narrow panes. Out in front there was a stand for gas pumps which weren't there anymore. Close beside it was a mound of sumac trees and strangling vines, into which all kinds of junk had been thrown. The sumacs jogged my memory and I looked back at the store. It seemed to me that I had been here once, and the the scene was connected with some disappointment or dismay. I knew that I had never driven this way before in my adult life and I did not think I could have come here as a child. It was too far from home. Most of our drives out of town where to my grandparents'house in Blyth--they had retired there after they sold the farm. And once a summer we drove to the lake at Goderich. But even as I was saying this to my husband I remembered the disappointment. Ice cream. Then I remembered everything--the trip my father and I had made to Muskoka in 1941, when my mother was already there, selling furs at the Pine Tree Hotel north of Gravehurst.”
Source: The View From Castle Rock
“Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.”
Source: The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author): From the American writer, a master of short stories, known for The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The Cop and the Anthem, Options, Roads of Destiny, The Four Million…
“Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.”
“Not very smart," Chudo-Yudo growled. "Stalking a Baba Yaga." He showed a set of sharp white teeth. "Maybe he has a death wish. I could help with that You want me to eat him?”
Source: Wickedly Magical
“Not very tall, not very dark but very...very handsome,’ was his way of describing himself.”
Source: Half A Shadow
“Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.”
“Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.”
“Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings