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 essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.”
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”
“Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence
“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.”
“Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
“Nothing is more excruciating than hopelessly longing for lost love.”
“Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”
“Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.”
“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.”
“Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.”
“Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.”
“Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.”
Source: The Immoralist
“Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.”
“Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the days without sunshine, and the measures one takes - if they're locals, permanent residents - against an environment such as this. And most vulnerable/susceptible are the kids, who have no options other than to scheme and dream themselves into all kinds of trouble.”
“Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.”
Source: Philosophical works
“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.”
“Nothing is more fertile than a beautiful mind—a garden where kindness grows, wisdom blooms, and hope takes root.”
“Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.”
“Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and altars like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn”
“Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.”
Source: The Sibyl
“Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold.”
“Nothing is more fragile than a single snowflake,” it said. “But look what they can do when they stick together.”
Source: The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”
Source: Inkheart
“Nothing is more frightening than a monster that cares about his health, cause you know he'll be around for a while.”
“nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action”
“Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.”
“Nothing is more fun than fucking and drinking, I don’t know what is your God offering in heaven.”
“Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?”
“Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.”
Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.”
“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes
“Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.”
Source: Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
“Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.”
“Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age”
Source: August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]
“Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.”
“Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.”
“Nothing is more honest than a dream.”
Source: Federico Fellini: Interviews
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
“Nothing is more honorable than a man or woman with a good reputation.”
“Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.”
Source: Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision
“Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.”
“Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.”
Source: Approaches to God
“Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.”
“Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination.”
Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest
“Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.”
“Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.”