N Quotes
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“Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.”
“Nothing more,—except that I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
Source: Little Women
“Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
“Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -”
“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.”
“Nothing more peaceful to me then falling asleep in a peaceful church or falling asleep next to a Beautiful woman as both are beautiful things as I feel safe and at peace”
“Nothing more peaceful to me then falling asleep in a peaceful church or falling asleep next to a Beautiful woman as both as beautiful things as I feel safe and at peace”
“Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.”
Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition
“Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.”
“Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.”
“Nothing more sharply reflects the inner contradictions in the emotional world of chivalry than its equivocal attitude to love, which combined the highest spiritualization with extreme sensuality. But illuminating as is a psychological analysis of the equivocal nature of these emotions, the psychological facts are a product of historical circumstances which in turn require explanation and can only be explained sociologically. The psychological mechanism of this attachment to the wife of another, and of this intensification of emotion through the freedom with which it could be expressed, could never have been set in motion without the force of ancient religious and social taboos having first been weakened and the soil prepared for such an exuberant growth of erotic feelings by the rise of a new emancipated upper class. In this case, too, psychology, as so often, is only unclear, disguised, incompletely worked-out sociology.”
Source: The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”
“Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.”
Source: The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes
“Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.”
“Nothing more than action speaks for love and passion.”
“Nothing more than nothing can be said.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
“Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.”
Source: The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed
“Nothing more vulgar than a vow broken.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.”
“Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.”
“Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.”
“Nothing motivates a man like motivation.”
“Nothing motivates like success. While academics, consultants and gurus are preoccupied with coming up with great insights and seminal ideas, usually they don't realize that making things happen, achieving operational excellence, moving the organization from uncertainty to clarity, from red ink to black, is what really creates hope for a better future. Therefore, great leadership always involves great ideas and real actions that reinforce a strong belief in the excellence of the decision makers and in the viability of the organization itself.”
“Nothing motivates quite like a deadline. Particularly one that emphasizes on the dead part.”
Source: Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”
Source: The living
“Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.”
“Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!”
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
“Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?”
“Nothing moves God like a person with Faith and nothing will help you more than cultivating your Faith.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.”
“Nothing moves until you move first.”
“Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi’s and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not very concerned.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.”
“Nothing much,” said the yachtsman. “Merely fly out to the planet Saturn.”
“Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.”
“Nothing, my old friend. Only, is it not true that some of our strength comes from suffering? That suffering hardship makes us stronger? That those of us who have never known a real hardship, and true suffering, cannot have the same strength as others, who have suffered much? And if that is true, does that not mean that your argument is the same thing as saying that we have to be weak to suffer, and we have to suffer to be strong, so we have to be weak to be strong?”
Source: Shantaram
“Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.”
Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
“Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.”
“Nothing need be said; nothing could be said. There it was, all around them. It partook, she felt, helping Mr. Bankes to a specially tender piece, of eternity; as she had already felt about something different once before that afternoon; there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again to-night she had the feeling she had had once to-day already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that remains for ever after. This would remain.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Nothing needs a war. There is no problem that needs a war to bring it to a resolution.”
“Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.”
Source: All That Is Unspoken
“Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right”
“Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.”
“Nothing new can happen here, so all you do is think about the days of life when possibility hadn't been ripped from you forever, when anything could happen, and wonder why so much was squandered, so much wasted.”
Source: Praying Drunk
“Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.”
“Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!”
“Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing new or innovative is created without a stretch of the imagination. Reach your goals by reaching for the sky with some brain stretches of the imagination every day.”
“Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration”