N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.”
“Nothing requires a higher level of emotional control than asking for something and subsequently dealing with objections. This leads us again to the single most important lesson in this book: In every sales conversation, the person who exerts the greatest amount of emotional control has the highest probability of getting the outcome they desire. You must first gain control of your emotions before you can influence the emotions of other people. Getting past no in all its various forms, begins and ends with emotional control.”
Source: Objections: The Ultimate Guide for Mastering The Art and Science of Getting Past No
“Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.”
Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt
“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”
“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
Source: Indiana
“Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose”
“Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.”
Source: Metamorphoses
“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”
“Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.”
“Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.”
“Nothing reveals humanity so well as the game it plays.”
“Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.”
Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“Nothing reveals more clearly the degree to which employed professionals are alienated from their subjects than does the sharply contrasting behavior of the hobbyists or “buffs” in their fields. When hobbyists encounter one another at a social gathering, before long you will find them talking eagerly about the content of their subject of common interest, showing an excitement, enthusiasm, wonder and curiosity that is reminiscent of beginning professional students. This rarely happens when professionals talk casually with their colleagues. Unlike the amateurs, the professionals don’t talk much about the work itself: they often appear detached from their subject, as if they don’t derive much satisfaction from it. Yes, they “talk shop,” but their focus is so far from the content of the work itself that you would have a hard time if you had to guess what kind of “shop” they work in. A commercial bank? A junior high school? A government agency? A university department? Casual conversation among professionals tends to focus on the actions and personalities of employers and powerful figures within their fields—the standard gossip topics of the powerless. Their gossip is by no means idle, however, for the politics are central to their work as professionals.”
Source: Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
“Nothing reveals our animal nature more than how we tremble at the scent of skin”
“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
“Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.”
“Nothing rises with its feet on the ground.”
“Nothing risque, nothing gained.”
“Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
“Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.”
“Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.”
Source: Ranting Again
“Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
“Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.”
“Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.”
Source: A&B
“Nothing’s better for the soul than falling in love with animals.”
Source: A Little Magic
“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to
you, not really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t
even get your name right.”
Source: Coraline
“Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.”
Source: In Bloom
“Nothing’s ever as bad as you think it’s going to be.”
Source: Battle Scars
“Nothing’s ever perfect, each one of us has a gray area in our mind. Maybe something we can’t get past?
Surround yourself with people that can trigger your emotions in a positive way. Emotions stick! All it takes is kindness. These people are the ones that lift you from any darkness you're feeling. Open up, let your heart breathe. Talk to the people who walk with kindness in their heart. We all know people like this, maybe they need someone to talk to as well?”
“Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, believing that somebody's going to catch you.”
Source: Four Weeks Till Forever
“Nothing’s further from the truth; it was just a line to hook you”
Source: The Polymorph
“Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open your eyes.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (Hardcover)
“Nothing's great about gettin' a leader who doesn't even know what he's supposed to do."
"You don't know what you're supposed to do? Well, just do what you can! That's all you need to do.”
Source: Wind Breaker 5
“Nothing’s like before. Everything’s late.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Nothing's more comforting than the sound of rain when you're not in it.”
Source: Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
“Nothing's promised us by the gods. Isn't that all the more reason to love while we can?”
Source: Rosemarked
“Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.”
Source: The False Princess
“Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.”
Source: The Nest
“Nothing’s secure. Gold’s only lead
When you stop to think.
On your way up, show consideration
To the ones you meet on their way down.
The Latin root of 'condescension'
Means we all sink.”
“Nothing's worse than a broken heart, and Eric knew that more than anyone.”
Source: A Life for a Life
“Nothing's worth any effort in the end," he said to Laura, "because everyone is going to die and there is nothing in the world that will stop them from dying. Nothing lasts. A few things last longer than most people live, but they go too. Hope goes, and desire and wonder and fear and eagerness. Love lasts a few minutes longer, that's all. A minute or a month or an hour. The paper match burns down until it singes your fingers and goes out, and there you are in the dark again, rubbing your two little sticks together. But this is the last time, the last match. There won't be any more light. No more. And no more noise of things moving or of animals lying down. Only our separate, untouching selves, and soon not even that.”
Source: A Fine and Private Place
“Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Nothing saddens me more
Than Nigger, one whose master has no Lord.
No word leaves me more graced by shame.”
Source: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
“Nothing safe is worth the drive.”
“Nothing said family more than shared soap.”
Source: The Artist’s Redemption
“Nothing said I had to crash.”
“Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.”
Source: The Dispossessed
“Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.”
Source: The Search Within: The Inner Experiences of a Psychoanalyst; from the Works of Theodor Reik
“Nothing sanctifies like suffering.”