N Quotes
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“Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.”
“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.”
“Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.”
Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII
“Nothing empowers like education.”
“Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood”
“Nothing enchants the mind more than the existence of the outside world, of something that resists it and will not obey.”
Source: Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
“Nothing encourages an athlete more than making plays and having success in practice. Small victories can play a major role when you have a player who is dealing with the stress of change or even some other issue. Do whatever you can to reinforce someone’s confidence by helping him achieve small victories. So much of leadership comes down to knowing the people you are leading and providing them with what they need to succeed. It is also about making them confident to take risks and make changes.”
Source: Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season
“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.”
Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary
“Nothing ends a first date faster than finding a dead body.”
Source: Capture Me
“Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.”
“Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”
“Nothing endures but change.”
“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]”
“Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.”
Source: The Culture of Cities
“Nothing endures except truth.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.”
“Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being”
Source: A Modern Utopia
“Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.”
Source: A Separate Peace
“Nothing enduring can be built on violence.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.”
“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”
“Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.”
“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
Source: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.”
“Nothing escaped or deceived him in his present frame of mind; he saw into the depths of life, mankind and destiny. Happy is he, even though he suffers, whom God has endowed with a spirit worthy of both love and misfortune. Those for whom human affairs and the hearts of men have not been informed by this double light have seen and learned nothing. The state of the soul that loves and suffers is sublime.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Nothing escapes my alphabet powers. It’s exhausting.”
Source: Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal
“Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.”
Source: Sailing Alone Around the World
“Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music
“Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought”
“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.”
Source: Weaveworld
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
Source: Weaveworld
“Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned.
They are the same today as they were years ago.”
“Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.”
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
Source: Up from Slavery
“Nothing ever dies
it only changes
into something else
like old songs
that blow gently
into new ears
to find new meanings”
Source: Doppelganger in My House
“Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.”
“Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.”
“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.”
“Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.”
“Nothing ever goes as you expect, Lews Therin murmured. Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised. Expect nothing. Hope for nothing. Nothing.”
Source: Lord of Chaos
“nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know
…nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. it just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.”
Source: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“Nothing ever goes back to the way things used to be, so consciously cherish the time you have with people who give you the opportunity to love and create memories.”
Source: Don't Just Fly, SOAR: The Inspiration and tools you need to rise above adversity and create a life by design
“Nothing ever goes wrong in life.”