N Quotes
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“Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.”
Source: The Prince
“Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.”
Source: Damned
“nothing feels
as rich, as expensive,
as being held by hands
laced in respect,
strong hands that can be
soft and slow against your skin
like flowers, like curiosity…
and eyes that mean what they say
when they say all those things
that eyes say… like,
it's safe here. and there's truth here.
and there's depth in here.
and full. attention.
that undeniable, can't not. must have.
ache for you, ache for this…
nothing. but. this. kind of aching in you
reaching for an aching me…
those are the priceless things,
give me your priceless things.”
“nothing feels
as rich, as expensive,
as being held by hands
laced in respect,
strong hands that can be
soft hands and slow hands
against your skin
like flowers, like curiosity…
and eyes that mean what they say
when they say all those things
that eyes say… like,
it's safe here. and there's truth here.
and there's depth in here.
and full. attention.
that undeniable, can't not. must have.
ache for you, ache for this…
nothing. but. this. kind of aching in you
reaching for an aching me…
those are the priceless things,
give me your priceless things.”
“Nothing feels dirtier than living a life that is not your own. No amount of money is worth my soul. I would rather be homeless and go out in a blaze of glory than subject myself to a slow and steady death of apathy and government by my environment.”
Source: The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
“Nothing feels real anymore, and maybe that’s the only way to deal with this kind of thing.”
Source: Purgatory
“Nothing feels sexier than wearing the beautiful truth.”
“Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.”
“Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.”
Source: Matters of Convenience
“Nothing felt like mine anymore, not after you. All those little things that defined me; small sentimental trinkets, car keys, pin codes, and passwords. They all felt like you. And more than anything else, my number - the one you boldly asked for that night, amidst a sea of people, under a sky of talking satellites and glowing stars.
You said no matter how many times you erased me from your phone, you would still recognize that number when it flashed on your screen. The series of sixes and nines, like the dip of my waist to the curves of my hips, your hands pressed into the small of my back. Nines and sixes that were reminiscent of two contented cats, curled together like a pair of speech marks. You said if you could never hold me or kiss me again, you could live with that. But you couldn't bear the thought of us not speaking and asked, at the very least, could I allow you that one thing?
I wonder what went through your mind the day you dialed my number to find it had been disconnected. If your imagination had raced with thoughts of what new city I run to and who was sharing my bed. Isn't it strange how much of our lives are interchangeable, how little is truly ours. Someone else's ring tone, someone else's broken heart. These are the things we inherit by choice or by chance.
And it wasn't my choice to love you but it was mine to leave. I don't think the moon ever meant to be a satellite, kept in loving orbit, locked in hopeless inertia, destined to repeat the same pattern over and over - to meet in eclipse with the sun - only when the numbers allowed.”
Source: Memories
“Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.”
“Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.”
“Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.”
“Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one’s own bowels or guts but from one’s discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: to perform the commonplace under far-from-commonplace conditions.”
Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
“Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.”
Source: Who Could That Be at This Hour?
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.”
“Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.”
Source: Selected prose of Robert Frost
“Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.”
“Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.”
“Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.”
“Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.”
“Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition”
Source: Ethics
“Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain”
“Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?”
Source: Autobiography
“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.”
“Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.”
Source: A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
“Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy”
“Nothing freely given is a good thing when it comes to investing”
“Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people.”
Source: For My Legionaries
“Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.”
Source: Recent Speeches and Addresses [1851-1855]
“Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans
“Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.”
“Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.”
Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964
“Nothing from the external world as well as the internal one, should be accepted to be true, good and healthy, unless it passes the test of reasoning.”
“Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.”
“Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.”
“Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.”
Source: Healology
“Nothing fun in life is easy.”
Source: Wait for You
“Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God”
“Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.”
“Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.”
“Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.”
Source: To End a War: The Conflict in Yugoslavia--America's Inside Story--Negotiating with Milosevic
“Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.”
“Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.”
“Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.”
“Nothing gets in the way of love. Generosity of spirit empowers us to perform miracles and wonders.”
“Nothing gets me more excited and inspired than something new.”
“Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.”