N Quotes
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“Nothing can be done except little by little.”
Source: The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters
“Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.”
“Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects”
Source: Picasso: the Avignon paintings
“Nothing can be done without work.”
“Nothing can be everything!”
“Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.”
“Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.”
“Nothing can be further than the truth.”
“Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.”
Source: A Primer of Soto Zen: A Translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo Zuimonki
“Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame.”
“Nothing can be hacked without connectivity, even your heart.”
“Nothing can be in the Nothing. Nothing can be only in the Something. Without the Nothing in the Being, there can be no Being, the Universe, in the sense we experience the World, and there can be no space. Whole Space is Nothingness contaminated by the “illusion” of the Being transformed into Something we call Universe.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Nothing can be inside an edgeless universe.”
“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.”
“Nothing can be left until the last minute, so that everyone knows exactly where they are. Everyone is comfortable and everyone feels safe because we want people to be able to keep coming into this show and taking those risks. There are a lot of risks in this show, not just nudity, but emotional risks. We want the best actors to feel comfortable about coming in and exploring this subject matter with us.”
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
“Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three
“Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.”
“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.”
Source: The Second World War
“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”
Source: Laws
“Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.”
Source: Essays Biographical and Chemical
“Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.”
Source: 31 Days toward Trusting God
“Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.”
Source: Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck, Author of the Theological Dictionary, Containing the Young Christian's Guide; Or, Suitable Directions, Cautions, and Encouragement, to the Believer on His First Entrance Into the Divine Life, a Treatise on Religious Experience: in which Its Nature, Evidences, and Advantages, are Considered; Together with Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining, Alphabetically Arranged, and Interpersed with a Variety of Useful Observations
“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.”
“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”
Source: Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible
“Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.”
“Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!”
“Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy . . . . It is to little purpose to say that a neglect or omission of this kind [not letting the feds have elections], would be unlikely to take place. The constitutional possibility of the thing, without an equivalent for the risk, is an unanswerable objection.”
“Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.”
“Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.”
Source: On the Origin of Species
“Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.”
Source: Collected Works
“Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.”
“Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!”
Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth
“Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.”
Source: Collected essays
“Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]”
“Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.”
Source: Headlong hall and Nightmare abbey
“Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.”
Source: The After
“Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.”
Source: Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
“Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.”
Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?
“Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.”
Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
“Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.”
“Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?"
(Editorial, The Times, 22 July 1853)”
Source: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective