N Quotes
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“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.”
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.”
Source: The Razor’s Edge
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.”
“Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.”
Source: The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)
“Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being”
“Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.”
Source: The odyssey
“Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.”
“Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.”
“Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.”
Source: The plague: translated from the French
“Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.”
“Nothing in the world pleases her so well as solitude. She is happiest alone in the country. She loves rambling alone in her woods. She loves going out by herself at night. She loves hiding from callers. She loves walking among her trees and musing.”
“Nothing in the world starts with zero investment. Everything or anything you put to initiate a work is an investment.
Your effort is costliest, and money a tiny part of it.”
“Nothing in the world terrifies me more than to have the words stop coming. If I can't write, I could be of no use. ("Smashwords," 2018)”
“Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.”
Source: The Shadow of Victory: A Romance of Fort Dearborn
“Nothing in the world was worse than unhappy parents. Nothing. When parents were unhappy, the whole world seemed to go wrong.”
Source: Ramona Forever
“Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.”
Source: Truth and Predication
“Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.”
“Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.”
“Nothing in this book is true.”
“Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God.”
“Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.”
Source: Unravel Me
“Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.”
“Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.”
“Nothing in this place is sexy," I told him, and he[Dex] laughed.
"Oh, come on, Izzy. Even you, Miss Anti-Romance, can admit there's something just a little bit appealing about making out in a candlelit cave."
"Bats live in caves," I reminded him. "And where there are bats, There's bat poop. Lot's of it. Did you know there's a cave in Mexico where they have a whole mountain made out guano?”
Source: School Spirits
“Nothing in this universe is complex to understand than the universe itself. Everything else is as frugal as a cold wave.”
“Nothing in this world attracts ‘me’. It will attract ‘me’ only if it is greater than me, right?”
Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy
“Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.”
Source: BRAT FARRAR
“Nothing in this world can affect the one who is a shuddha upayogi (one who lives with pure applied awareness as the Self).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
“Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayogi).”
“Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Nothing in this world exists on principle. We know for a fact that the world is messy, that people believe in messy things. There aren't rules.
What does it do for your life to rip out the ground beneath your feet?”
Source: The Department of Truth, Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies
“Nothing in this world happens by chance”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.”
“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.”
“Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.”
“Nothing in this world is complicated, only misunderstood.”
Source: Our Violent Ends
“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”
Source: Monkey: A Journey to the West
“Nothing in this world is ever created or destroyed, it can only be transformed.”
Source: The Little Light
“Nothing in this world is guaranteed, as life itself is a gamble.”
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
“Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale surface the body that has been drowned. Fire itself leaves the confession, in ashes, of the substance consumed in it. Hate breaks its prison-secrecy in the thoughts, through the doorway of the eyes; and Love finds the Judas who betrays it by a kiss. Look where we will, the inevitable law of revelation is one of the laws of nature: the lasting preservation of a secret is a miracle which the world has never yet seen.”
Source: No Name
“Nothing in this world is illogical.
What might seem as illogic to one, is doctrine to another.
Through experiences, logic is formed and that
logic influences prospective experiences
until disbanded.”
Source: Dangling
“Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.”