N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.”
Source: Freerunning: The Urban Landscape is Your Playground
“Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.”
Source: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library
“Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.”
“Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining...”
Source: The Beast's Garden
“Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.”
Source: God is Not Great
“Nothing or no one is going to rescue you from your current situation. You must take control of your own well-being and forge your own path to happiness and fulfillment.”
“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.”
“Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.”
“Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.”
“Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.”
Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke
“Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.”
Source: Natural Right and History
“Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.”
“Nothing out of place. Normal to the point of abnormal.”
Source: The Widow
“Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.”
“Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you joy. Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth”
“Nothing outside of God and His truth should be sacred to us. And so it is with hell. If hell is some primitive myth left over from conservative tradition, then let's set it on that dusty shelf next to other traditional beliefs that have no basis in Scripture. But if it is true, if the Bible does teach that there is a literal hell awaiting those who don't believe in Jesus, then this reality must change us. It should certainly purge our souls of all complacency.”
Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
“Nothing outside of my child is important”
“Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.”
“Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires….”
Source: The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.”
Source: The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings
“Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“Nothing over the last few million years of human history has changed human energetics as much as the low cost of working at a desk using machines run by electric power.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.”
Source: Murder Suicide
“Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.”
“Nothing pains some people more than having to think”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.”
“Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.”
“Nothing passes in a small town.”
Source: Inheritance
“Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.”
Source: The Lion in Love: A Play
“Nothing penetrate the spirit of man's heart than the power of the gospel of Christ.”
“Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.”
“Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.”
“Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps”
Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS
“Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.”
“Nothing perishes... nothing dies.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Nothing persists, said the ancient sages: everything changes, everything flows, everything becomes; consequently, everything remains and everything is connected; by further consequence the entire universe is opposition, balance, equilibrium. There is nothing, neither outside nor inside, apart from that eternal dance; and the rhythm that commands it,”
“Nothing persists without changing its outward appearance,
for Nature is always engaged in acts of renewal,
creating new forms everywhere out of the old ones;
nothing in all of the cosmos can perish, believe me,
but takes on a different shape; and what we call birth is
when something first changes out of its former condition,
and what we call death is when its identity ceases;
things may perhaps be translated hither and thither;
nevertheless, they stay constant in their sum total.”
Source: Metamorphoses
“Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.”
“Nothing personal, it's just business”
“Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called in question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages...”
“Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.”
“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.”
“Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of
security and the delight of adventure.”
“Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.”
“Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self to our beloved until the day we die. Love makes us more beautiful and distorts us. Love takes our impulse to lie to an extreme.”
“Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.”
“Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.”