N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.”
Source: Demons on the Dalton
“Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.”
“Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.”
“Nothing sends patriarchy scuttling
under covers of propriety
faster than rambunctious peals of laughter
emanating from rubicund lips”
“Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield--a tactician's greatest sin--like zombies unexpectedly tapping their rear guard on the shoulder and eating their brains.”
“Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!”
Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
Source: Fatherhood
“Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.”
“Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards
“Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.”
Source: Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography
“Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Nothing shakes the smiling heart.”
Source: I Am Dead Man Alive
“Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.”
Source: Epistle to the Hebrews
“Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.”
“Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day.”
“Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.”
“nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music”
Source: The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Nothing she did would be wrong. It was their fault for looking.”
Source: Kill Switch
“Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'”
“Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.”
Source: On the Basis of Morality
“Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.”
“Nothing short of a global army could stop them. Even if the Arch Mage can mobilise all the Council’s forces, we don’t stand a chance. Not without an alliance.”
Source: Winter's Mother 1
“Nothing short of everything will really do.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf.”
Source: The Green Man
“Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.”
“Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.”
“Nothing should be a higher priority than raising your children. Nothing!”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.”
“Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.”
“Nothing should be done for spite's sake.”
Source: Closing the Ring
“Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.”
“Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.”
“Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.”
“Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.”
Source: Presidential addresses and state papers
“NOTHING SHOULD BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN 'EVERYONE ELSE,' WHICH IS AT ONCE LAID-BACK AND RIGOROUSAbout the world we create when we fall in love, and how we navigate the space between us and that separating us from everyone else.”
“Nothing should be used anywhere that is not edible. We should not clean our house with substances that are toxic carcinogens. It's not necessary. There are anti-bacterial agents, and antiseptic agents, that are non-toxic. That's really our focus, and my personal focus: to make consumer goods that don't just smell good, but taste good, and can be used to anoint one's self and also the environment in which you are living in.”
“Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.”
“Nothing should be worshipped [sic] that has form or is individuated. The universal Divine Life is alone to be worshipped. There is no colorless pantheism in this concept; for the God of each man is one with the universal God: the Conqueror obtains the Universe, not by being absorbed and obliterated by it, but by transcending the limitations of his individual consciousness and partaking of the universal Divine Consciousness. As an individual he loses nothing but his imperfections, but he gains the All, the "Origin and the Perfection." And this is Seership, which is not "prophecy," "second sight" or sense-perception on any plane of consciousness, but is Direct Cognition of Reality.”
Source: The Apocalypse Unsealed
“Nothing should become a stumbling block in your relationship with the people who surround you”
“Nothing should lead you aside from your planned route”
“Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.”
“Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.”
“Nothing shouts out “Celebrity!” as loudly as being a biker in desperate need of a shave, a haircut and clean clothes.”
Source: Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast
“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”