N Quotes
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“Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
whispers to the moon
in silent moonlit clarity”
“Nothing trains a man better than his own trials.”
“Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach their children to love God they must show their love for Him by loving each other and loving the children.”
“Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.”
“Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.”
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
Source: Mostly Harmless
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.”
“Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.”
“Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.”
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“Nothing true requires belief.”
“Nothing truly beautiful without its element of strangeness, nothing whole without its own incongruity, these (Jacksonville-area pioneer house) ruins sand up from the earth in sacred conjunction. These ruins conjoin the earth and the manmade, moving from one to the other and back again. The Browards built their house out of shell and limestone, and limestone forms naturally from the shells and skeletons of miniscule sea creatures over great periods of time. The Browards shaped the earth upright toward the sky. THey shaped it with doorframes and windows and chimneys. THey shaped the earth up around them as a shelter. But shaped earth was always the earth. Now the walls fall back down and join once again the ground, taken over by roots of ferns and weeds and small trees. The house was always the ground, only contained in an upward suspension. The house was always the earth, but brought up into architecture, and now the house that was always the earth crumbles back into the earth and nourishes new green things -- dog fennel and morning glories and palmettoes and cabbage palms and cedars. A true symbol of sacredness of the earth is earth's reclaiming of human ingenuity.”
“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.”
“Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.”
“Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.”
“Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it.”
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“Nothing turned a man on faster than a woman that couldn't get enough of what he had to offer.”
Source: My Wolf Fighter
“Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.”
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
Source: Reflections on the French Revolution
“Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God”
“Nothing unattested do I sing.”
“Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.”
“Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.”
“Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.”
“Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.”
“Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.”
“Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.”
“Nothing unusual was noted during the voyage, in fact everything ran smoothly until Security alerted Biscay about the stiff in cabin 407. Nobody heard or saw anything suspicious. None of the passengers were missing or acting suspiciously. No airlock doors were opened or any transports allowed since their last stop four days prior. There were no notorious names on the passenger list, nor any unsavory persons among the ranks of his crew. In fact, the ship’s commander had never even seen a dead body in real – um, life before. And yet, almost magically, there it was.”
Source: Dead Man's Hammer
“Nothing upsets the enemy more than seeing a woman who has been severely bruised, dust herself off, rise and shine bright because no matter how much the enemy tries to prove a point, a powerful woman will always prove him wrong.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.”
“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
Source: Moon Is Harsh Mistres
“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”
Source: Lincoln on War
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.”
“nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
Source: City of Glass
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.”
“Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.”
“Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.”
“Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.”
Source: Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus
“Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.”
“Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.”
“Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.”
Source: The Rumor
“Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.”
“Nothing was affirmative, the term 'generosity of spirit,' applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire--meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathy, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt anymore. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in...this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged...”
Source: American Psycho
“Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.”
Source: Racing Through the Dark
“Nothing was better for forgetting than making plans.”
Source: Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing