N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.”
Source: Crackpot: The Obsessions of
“Not wanting her to become discouraged, Giles waved the tennis ball over his head, staying her swing before she could miss and send another ball flying backward into the Ashley River or smacking into the net. It was a miracle she hadn’t lobbed a ball through one of the long windows of the house. 'You’ve done wonderfully for your first lesson, but let’s say we call it a day?”
Source: Hearts of Gold Collection
“Not wanting him to go was an emotion produced by me, not him. He’d witnessed me having and failing to smother a feeling, and said he’d noticed - and he profited, not me.”
Source: Exciting Times
“Not wanting people and not having people are not the same things.”
“Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I walked through life, an actor in a Leave it to Beaver episode, determined to disguise all clues of my real condition until... well, until I could find an appropriate moment to do away with myself." [...]
"Yet even as my depression spiraled into ever more precarious territory, I retained an uncanny ability to disguise my true mental condition from everyone except Tom. He was my sole source of strength and he never stopped encouraging me.”
Source: Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse
“Not wanting to be seen, I shrunk back into the shadows, when I heard a friendly voice ask, “Sind sie allein Fraulein? Warum tanzen sie nicht.” I couldn’t believe that I was being asked by this handsome German Naval Officer if I was alone and why I wasn’t dancing. When I tried to explain, he interjected by saying, “I too am alone. Would you dance with me?”
I was so overwhelmed that I couldn’t resist his offer to dance. Stepping out onto the dance floor I could see Richard on the other side of the room looking in my direction. I really couldn’t resist being a little naughty as I feigned flirtatious girlish laughter, while whirling in the arms of this gallant, dapper, and oh-so-handsome Naval Officer.
Captain Dönitz concluded our dance in typical German fashion, by clicking his heels and kissing my hand. Later that evening Richard reluctantly apologized for his behavior. I could understand that he had been totally engrossed with his duties and decided to forgive the incident and move on. That evening quite a number of the cadets had also asked me for a dance. I felt flattered but decided that I would be loyal to Richard. Later in Germany, Richard loved to tell this story to friends and family or anyone else that would listen.”
“Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.”
Source: Calculating God
“Not wanting to disappoint is what pushed me to be successful.”
“Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.”
“Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.”
“Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.”
“Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very interested in a report by the McKinsey consulting firm that concluded that 40 percent of everything that we have to do to mitigate our emissions are net economic winners. They are cost effective and the most cost effective is not wasting energy. That's actually going to be the largest part of this whole journey, I believe - using less energy with the same beneficial results.”
“Not wasting money is the best way to save money.”
“Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!
“Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.”
“Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.”
“Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.”
“Not what happens to you
But how you accept it
Is of paramount importance.”
Source: Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration
“Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.”
Source: The Carlyle reader, selections ed. by J. Wood
“Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.”
Source: The Italian Painters of the Renaissance
“Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.”
“Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.”
“Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
Source: Principal Doctrines
“Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.”
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
“Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary
“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.”
“Not what you'd call stupid. His brain got there in the end. It just went the long way round.”
Source: The Carpet People
“Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.”
“Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.”
“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.”
“Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.”
Source: A talk between two workers
“not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.”
“Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
News from the humming city comes to it
It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Not "Why me?"
"What's Next!”
“Not why the addiction, but why the pain.”
“Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.”
“Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.”
“Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.”
“Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.”
Source: The Power Elite
“Not with a club, the Heart is broken
Nor with a Stone –
A Whip so small you could not see it
I've known”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.”
“Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.”
“Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!”