N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away.”
Source: Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
“Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.”
“Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.”
“Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)
“Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.”
“Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.”
“Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.”
“Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”
Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.”
Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions
“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.”
“Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.”
Source: Lent With Evelyn Underhill
“Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.”
Source: Sovereignty of God
“Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the joy of serving Him with all one's heart.”
“Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.”
Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.”
Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.”
Source: Why I Love My Prozac: The Ideologies of an Ordinary Family Man
“Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.”
“Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement”
Source: Pastels
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
“Nothing in business is so valuable as time.”
“Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.”
“Nothing in Christianity is original.”
Source: The Da Vinci Code: A Novel
“Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself. ... It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance.”
Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
“Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.”
“Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.”
Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide
“Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.”
“Nothing in fine print is ever good news.”
“Nothing in heaven or earth is content to be alone, and so there must always be something more. The universe is governed by a principle no more complicated than this: that a solitary body will forever attract another to itself.”
Source: The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
“Nothing in her life makes sense.
All she craves is for the pieces of the puzzle to fit together again.
She is sure one day it will happen. She just doesn’t know when.
She can’t fight injustice alone
– for that, she needs her friends.”
Source: Sex Media
“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
Source: Macbeth
“Nothing in his life had given him confidence in his hold upon the future. All he had learned indicated that one lived by avoiding trouble, or if it could not be avoided, seeing it first.”
Source: The Californios
“Nothing in his touch said he considered her fractured, considered her damaged goods, and that gave her a freedom she wouldn't have believed possible.”
Source: Archangel's Blade
“Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.”
“Nothing in human life is inherently private.”
“Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.”
“Nothing in life
comes easy.
Everything
comes with
a sacrifice”
“Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.”
“Nothing in life ever prepared me for a situation where I accidentally share a genuine kiss with a woman who’s supposed to be a small step up from ‘hostage’.”
Source: The Assassin's Heart
“Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.”
Source: The Submission: A Novel
“Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.”
Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer
“Nothing in life happens without purpose — even if that purpose remains hidden from us.
— Volodymyr Shablia”
“Nothing in life has any business being perfect.”
“Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Nothing in life has happened to you, it's happened FOR You!”
Source: Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life
“Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.”
Source: Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life
“Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded”