N Quotes
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“Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.”
“Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.”
“Nothing is dark when you embosom your own light within you”
“Nothing is defined nor asked or told, for we are already one.”
“Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable.”
Source: Dialogues sur la religion naturelle
“Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.”
Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.”
“Nothing is difficult for the humble.”
“Nothing is difficult in spirituality. You don’t need to invest, buy, or borrow anything from anybody. You can upgrade your consciousness free of cost.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.”
“Nothing is difficult; nothing is easy, all we need to do is work for it.”
“Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]”
“Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.”
“Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.”
Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir
“Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.”
Source: Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833-1870
“Nothing is distinct and separate.”
“Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.”
“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”
“Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.”
“Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.”
Source: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
“Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.”
Source: The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens: abridged
“Nothing is drearier than just always telling the truth about yourself. Rousseau, who as far as I can tell was a pathological liar, made this wonderful distinction between lying, which he said there was something wrong with if you were trying to extract an advantage for yourself or evade responsibility for some nasty thing you'd done. But if all you're really trying to do is impress or keep it young or make life more vivid and interesting, go for it! There's no real harm in doing something like that. I think people can be overly saddled to the truth.”
“Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.”
“Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.”
“Nothing is easier. It’s just a different type of hard.”
Source: Fully Average
“Nothing is easier than fault finding.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story
“Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.”
“Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.”
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.”
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.”
Source: Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)
“Nothing is easier than sinning.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.”
“Nothing is easier than stamping your foot and shouting: "That's mine!" It is immeasurably harder to proclaim: "You may live as you please.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
“Nothing is easier than stamping your foot and shouting: ''That's mine!’ It is immeasurably harder to proclaim: ‘You may live as you please.’ We cannot, in the latter end of the twentieth century. live in the imaginary world in which our last, not very bright Emperor came to grief. Surprising though it may be, the prophecy of our Vanguard Doctrine that nationalism would fade has not come true. In the age of the atom and of cybernetics, it has for some reason blossomed afresh. Like it or not, the time is at hand when we must payout on our promissory notes guaranteeing self-determination and independence—pay up of our own accord. and not wait to be burned at the stake, drowned in rivers, or beheaded. We must prove our greatness as a nation not by the vastness of our territory. not by the number of peoples under our tutelage, but by the grandeur of our actions. And by the depth of our tilth in the lands that remain when those who do not wish to live with us are gone.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago
“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.”
“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.”
Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species
“Nothing is easier than to be original thanks to a false absolute, all the more so when this absolute is negative, for to destroy is easier than to construct. Humanism is the reign of horizontality, either naive or perfidious; and since it is also — and by that very fact — the negation of the Absolute, it is a door open to a multitude of sham absolutes, which in addition are often negative, subversive, and destructive. It is not too difficult to be original with such intentions and such means; all one needs is a little imagination. It should be noted that subversion includes not only philosophical and moral schemes designed to undermine the normal order of things, but also — in literature and on a seemingly harmless plane — all that can satisfy an unhealthy curiosity: namely all the narrations that are fantastic, grotesque, lugubrious, "dark," thus satanic in their way, and well-fitted to predispose men to all excesses and all perversions; this is the sinister side of romanticism. Without fearing in the least to be "childlike" or caring in the least to be "adult," we readily dispense with these somber lunacies, and are fully satisfied with Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.”
Source: To Have a Center
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
“Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.”
Source: Intellectuals and Society
“Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English
“Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.”
Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
“Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.”
“Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.”
Source: Crusade in Europe
“Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.”
“Nothing is easy. To change or to accept changes is difficult.”
“Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.”
“Nothing is easy, but who wants nothing?”
“Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.”
“Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Source: The Power