N Quotes
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“nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!”
“Nothing defined the latter half of England's Victorian age more than the way in which Darwin's claims shook the collective faith of Victorian society. The cataclysmic effect of Darwin's ideas on his society is described by historians as a crisis of faith that turned the once-hopeful period into an "age of anxiety" and an "age of doubt." The years surrounding the publication of Darwin's work are the narrow gate through which the age of belief passed into the age of unbelief, not only for England but for the entire Western world within the shockingly brief period of one generation.”
Source: Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions
“Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.”
Source: Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism
“Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.”
“Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone”
“Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.”
Source: Collected Works
“Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.”
“Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.”
“Nothing destroys iron except the rust and nothing destroys human except sorrow.”
“Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.”
“Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.”
“Nothing destroys the spirit of greediness faster than the spirit of giving.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly afforded by memoirs of the sons of literature. They are entangled by contracts which they know not how to fulfill, and obliged to write on subjects which they do not understand. Every publication is a new period of time, from which some increase or declension of fame is to be reckoned. The gradations of a hero's life are from battle to battle, and of an author's from book to book.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.”
Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“Nothing determines the BJP position as predictably as the fear of being associated with anything of which the secularist establishment disapproves.”
Source: Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism
“Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.”
“Nothing develops intelligence like travel.”
“Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.”
“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Nothing dies in Hell.”
Source: Plague of Angels
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”
“Nothing disappears before appears”
“Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.”
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.”
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Nothing dishonourable, impure, unworthy
Our God, our law, my nation, or my self
The last of me or not can not warrant”
Source: Samson Agonistes
“Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.”
Source: Abe Martin's Back Country Sayings
“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.”
Source: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
“Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.”
“Nothing distinguishes a natural intelligence from something that can give off all the outward signs of it, and this includes faltering before the test of truth.
So one can give off all the outward signs of power, and this includes faltering before the test of strength. A simulation which produces, with just the requisite degree of derision, the image of an illusory normality.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.”
“Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether.”
“Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.”
“Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.”
“Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.”
“Nothing divides one so much as thought.”
“Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.”
“Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.”
Source: The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
“Nothing does so much to help those who suffer as to know that somebody cares.”
“Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.”
“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
“Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.”
“Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.”
“Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.”
“Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.”
“Nothing dries quicker than tears.”