N Quotes
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“Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.”
“Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at”
“Nothing is more irritating to a married man than to meet his wife at every turn, standing in the way of a desire, however fleeting.”
Source: Cousin Bette
“Nothing is more irritating to a middle-aged man than the dislocation of long-established habits.
[Edgar Hopkins]”
“Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.”
“nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?”
“Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs”
“Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.”
Source: Southern ladies and gentlemen
“Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.”
“Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.”
Source: Under the Net: A Novel
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...”
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”
“Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.”
“Nothing is more mortifying to young girls, or, indeed, to all the world, than to see a piece of mischief, an insult, or a biting speech, miss its effect through the contempt or the indifference of the intended victim. It seems as if hatred to an enemy grows in proportion to the height that enemy is raised above us.”
Source: La Vendetta
“Nothing is more mysterious than watching a lonely man who is taking for a night walk in a foggy street!”
“Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.”
Source: Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart
“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.”
“Nothing is more natural to me than horror.”
“Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
Source: The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
“Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the diaconate. We must resolve that we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word.”
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.”
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
“Nothing is more obscene than inertia. More blasphemous than the bloodiest oath is paralysis.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”
“Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.”
“Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.”
“Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.”
Source: Heaven
“Nothing is more oppressive than the affection of others--not even the hatred of others, since hatred is at least more intermittent than affection; being an unpleasant emotion, it naturally tends to be less frequent in those who feel it. But hatred as well as love is oppressive; both seek us, pursue us, won't leave us alone.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”
“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”
Source: Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century
“Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“NOTHING IS MORE PATHETIC THAN TO WATCH A LION CLIMB A STOOL
Some people catch lions, only to run a circus.
Some people keep lions but only desire to run a circus.”
“Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.”
“Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.”
“Nothing is more permanent than the temporary.”
“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.”
“Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy
“Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.”
Source: Essays
“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”
Source: The Hermit Of Eyton Forest
“Nothing is more pleasing than to see an arrogant prick fail.”
“Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.”
Source: Uniform with the Enchiridion: Spare Minutes Or Resolved Meditations and Premeditated Resolutions
“Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money”
“Nothing is more powerful and beautiful than love that cannot be surprised.”
“Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.”
“Nothing is more powerful and more life-changing than an experience.”
“Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.”
“Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.”