N Quotes
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“Nothing is more stylish than power.”
Source: Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s
“Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.”
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
“Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.”
“Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.”
“Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.”
“Nothing is more tedious than to talk with persons who treat your most obvious remarks as startling paradoxes and Edward suffered likewise from that passion for argument which is the bad talkers’ substitution for conversation. People who cannot talk are always proud of their dialectic. They want to modify your tritest observations and even if you suggest the day is fine, insist on arguing it out.”
Source: Mrs Craddock
“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”
“Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.”
Source: Inkdeath
“Nothing is more terrifying than how easily we beg for chains”
“Nothing is more terrifying to evil than joy.”
Source: The Beatryce Prophecy
“Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.”
“Nothing is more tiring than waiting and nothing is more relieving than giving up waiting!”
“Nothing is more to me than myself.”
Source: The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
“Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back." Last sentence of second paragraph from ToA: #1.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.”
“Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.”
Source: Vein of Iron
“Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“Nothing is more unfounded than to see a “world historical action” in Luther’s theses against indulgences and to date the beginning of the Reformation from them. The Anti-Roman movement had been in existence for decades in all classes of the German nation, and the fight against the abuses of the church had already found literary expression, for instance in the writings of the humanists. They were much more scathing than the rather tame theses of Luther. who did not even blame the indulgences themselves, but only their “abuses.”
Source: Die Lessing-Legende
“Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions without having yet obtained the victory as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others those attempts which he neglects himself.”
“Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.”
Source: Literary studies
“Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.”
“Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Nothing is more useful than silence.”
“Nothing is more useful than the useless.”
“Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.”
“Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.”
“Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.”
“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.”
“Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.”
Source: Integral humanism; temporal and spiritual problems of a new Christendom
“Nothing is more valuable than a tired smile to greet people despite being in the middle of a hard work!”
“Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.”
“Nothing is more vintage than dying of Rubella.”
“Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.”
“Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness”
Source: The Doctrine Of The Mean
“Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.”
“Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.”
Source: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death
“Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.”
“Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.”
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
“Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.”
“Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.”
“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Nothing is Natural In This World, Everything is Artificial, Including The Word 'Natural' Created By Us.”