N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
“Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.”
“Nothing is more attractive than someone who has your back one hundred percent.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 2
“Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.”
“Nothing is more beautiful and romantic than when provision and purpose kiss.”
“Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“Nothing is more beautiful than a beautiful girl who does not pretend to be something she is not. A girl who is down to earth and lets no guy define who she is.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than a heart that radiates kindness and eyes that reflect its light.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.”
Source: Painterly Approach
“Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears”
“Nothing is more beautiful than an investment. Earn money while you sleep. At the same time, you should be prepared to deal with any loss or risk that may arise along the way.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than beauty of a kind soul.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.”
Source: Titan: A Romance. From the German of Jean Paul Richter
“Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.”
Source: Passing of the Third Floor Back
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than waiting for your loved ones.”
“Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.”
Source: The Unicorn
“Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.”
Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army
“Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
“Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.”
“Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.”
“Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.”
“Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.”
“Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are extraordinarily popular with the masses, who do not have to pay them.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.”
Source: Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You
“Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.”
“Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume II - II
“Nothing is more certain than that this trope [metaphor], when temperately and appositely used, serves to add light to the expression and energy to the sentiment. On the contrary, when vaguely and intemperately used, nothing can serve more effectually to cloud the sense, where there is sense, and by consequence to conceal the defect, where there is no sense to show.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.”
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.”
Source: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing is more challenging than the pursuit and practice of grace. That’s why it’s so valued and worth your persistent effort.”
“Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.”
“Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of natural evolution, for in that case the perfect flower of humanity should have appeared at the end of human history and not in the middle of it.”
“Nothing is more closed than a closed mind that thinks it’s open and nothing is more manipulated than a manipulated mind that thinks it’s free.”
Source: The Robots' Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance
“Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature”
“Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.”
“Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance
“Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.”
“Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.”
Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons
“Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.”
Source: Sophia
“Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.”
Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781