N Quotes
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“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.”
“Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.”
Source: British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)
“Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.”
“Nothing that we love over-much
Is ponderable to our touch.”
“Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That's not the fault of science.”
“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.”
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.”
“Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.”
“Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.”
“Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.”
“Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.”
“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
“Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas”
Source: Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin
“Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.”
“Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.”
Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
“Nothing there is that does not love the sun. It gives us warmth and life; it melts the bitter snow and ice of winter; it makes plants grow and flowers bloom. It gives us long summer evenings when the darkness never comes. It saves us from the bitter days of midwinter, when the darkness is broken from only a handful of hours and the sun is cold and distant, like the pale eye of a corpse.”
Source: Norse Mythology
“Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art”
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“Nothing threatens a corrupt system more than a free mind.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.”
“Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.”
“Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.”
Source: The Turtle Diary
“Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Nothing to be honest. I am a fighter. I'm crazy already. I'm not afraid of ghosts or anything.”
“Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.”
Source: Carnival
“Nothing to be sorry for. A girl’s no girl at all for her sisters if she doesn’t get that sometimes a sister has to share the hurt, sometimes hold it close. That happens, a girl’s gotta stand by her sister the way she needs her, not the way that girl needs to do it.”
Source: Walk Through Fire
“Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.”
Source: Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors
“Nothing to do but follow your crazy, though.”
Source: The Fifth Season
“Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear out but clothes,
To keep one from going nude.”
“Nothing to do is itself a great doing.”
“Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.”
Source: Animal Dreams: A Novel
“Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.”
“Nothing to lose is so empty, so light, that the sand you crumble to at last blows away in a gust, so insubstantial it’s carried upwards to shirr into the sandstorm of the stars. That’s where we all get to. The rest is just wearing thin waiting for the wind.”
Source: The Dog Stars
“Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.”
“Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.”
Source: The Essays of Elia
“Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.”
Source: Hotel Honolulu
“Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.”
“Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.”
“Nothing to see here, folks. Keep it moving.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven't a clue.”
“Nothing too bad could happen around children drinking milkshakes.”
Source: Trust
“Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.”
“Nothing took the dignity out of one's exit like wearing clothing several sizes too large.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Nothing tops making a living off your passion.”
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.”
“Nothing touches the human heart than love to warm it!”
“Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life.”