N Quotes
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“Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.”
Source: Face to Face with God
“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”
“Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!”
“Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me".”
“Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To
“Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.”
“Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.”
“Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.”
“Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.”
“Nothing continues indefinitely. But I think there is always going to be a place for the home TV and there is always going to be a place for the smartphone.”
“Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo ...
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
“Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.”
“Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.”
“Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.”
“Nothing cost nothing," he cautioned, repeating the words of his father. "Anytime you think something is free, you should remember that someone, somewhere, is paying for it in one way or another, and more often than not, with something that means a helluva lot more than just money.”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.”
“Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.”
“Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.”
“Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie.”
Source: Superstition and Other Essays
“Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.”
“Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.”
“Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.”
Source: The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
“Nothing could be as hard as middle school.”
“Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.”
“Nothing could be closer than the present, yet nothing slips away faster.”
“Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister
current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”
“Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.”
Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969
“Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.”
“Nothing could be given birth to without solitude.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.”
Source: Golden
“Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.”
“Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.”
“Nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office. His style of lecturing was as nearly perfect as can well be conceived; for it had all the simplicity which is so entirely suited to scientific discourse, while it partook largely of the elegance which characterized all he said or did ... I have heard the greatest understandings of the age giving forth their efforts in its most eloquent tongues-have heard the commanding periods of Pitt's majestic oratory-the vehemence of Fox's burning declamation-have followed the close-compacted chain of Grant's pure reasoning-been carried away by the mingled fancy, epigram, and argumentation of Plunket; but I should without hesitation prefer, for mere intellectual gratification (though aware how much of it is derived from association), to be once more allowed the privilege which I in those days enjoyed of being present while the first philosopher of his age was the historian of his own discoveries, and be an eyewitness of those experiments by which he had formerly made them, once more performed with his own hands.”
“Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.”
“Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.”
“Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.”
“Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.”
Source: The federalist papers
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.”
“Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.”
“Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.”
“Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.”
“Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.”
Source: Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
“Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.”
Source: He That Is Spiritual: A Classic Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Spirituality
“Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.”