N Quotes
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“Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.”
“Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.”
Source: My Summer in a Garden
“Nothing shows our hearts like sacrifice. When we are willing not only to give from our excess, but to embrace some personal loss or disadvantage for the sake of showing generosity toward others, we say loudly and clearly…that we have a greater love than ourselves and our comforts.”
Source: Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
“Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.”
“Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”
Source: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings
“Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.”
“Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.”
Source: Anybody Out There
“Nothing slips by God. Nothing catches Him off guard or takes Him by surprise, as it does us. He is always in control, always prepared and always waiting and able to meet your particular need, whatever that may be.”
Source: The Heart That Heals: Healing Our Brokenness Through the Promises of God
“Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.”
“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
“Nothing so bad you need to be cruel. Tough, yes. You’ll have to kill, yes. But there’s a difference in the heart. One makes you mean. The other keeps you going.”
Source: The Iron Hunt
“Nothing so becomes us as stillness and quiet serenity.”
Source: A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
“Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.”
Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household
“Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.”
“Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.”
Source: The Orations
“Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.”
“Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.”
“Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.”
“Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.”
Source: The Story of John G. Paton, Told for Young Folks: Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals. Rearranged and Edited by James Paton
“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
Source: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
“Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.”
Source: The wars
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
“Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.”
“Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.”
“Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.”
“Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.”
Source: DON JUAN
“Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.”
“Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.”
“Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.”
Source: Antigone
“Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.”
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
Source: Cousin Pons
“Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.”
“Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.”
“Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.”
Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS
“Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.”
“Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.”
Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.”
“Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.”
“Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.”
“Nothing so perilous as procrastination”
Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
“Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!”
Source: The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse ...
“Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.”
“Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.”
“Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.”
Source: Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81