N Quotes
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“Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.”
“Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it.”
Source: Notes from a Young Black Chef
“Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you get paid for it.”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
“Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.”
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
“Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.”
Source: Son of a smaller hero: a novel
“Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
“Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.”
“Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.”
“Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.”
Source: New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen
“nothing is accomplished by writing a piece of music
nothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of music
nothing is accomplished by playing a piece of music
our ears are now in excellent condition.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts”
“Nothing is achieved without solitude.”
“Nothing is achieved without toil.”
“Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.”
“Nothing is all bad. There are very beautiful flowers in the desert amidst the spikes and thorns. Just don't let them take over. In the garden of love there is little room for prickly things.”
“Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.”
“Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.”
“Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.”
Source: A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
“Nothing is always absolutely so”
Source: And Now the News--
“Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.”
“Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.”
Source: Maps for Lost Lovers
“Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.”
“Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.”
“Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.”
Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.”
“Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader
“Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'”
“Nothing is as beautiful as the reality itself, even a beautiful dream; but at the same time nothing is as terrible as the reality itself, even a terrible nightmare!”
“Nothing is as beautifully, richly red as flowing blood on snow. It is strange that the eye can love what mind and body hate.”
Source: The Peregrine
“Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha
“Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.”
“Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.”
“Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
“nothing is as conventional as adolescence.”
Source: The Iron Woman
“Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.”
“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”
“Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.”
“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.”
“Nothing is as daring as a dream.”
“Nothing is as daunting as the threats associated with global warming. That's the biggie. Everyone bangs on about rising sea levels but the real challenge of a warming planet is ocean acidification. An acid ocean spells the end of life on earth.”
“Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.”
“Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.”
“Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.”
“Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”
“Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.”
“Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel