N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.”
“Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.”
Source: Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again
“Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.”
Source: The Ghost's Child
“Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'”
“Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.”
Source: The Law of Success
“Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.”
Source: Beautiful Redemption
“Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.”
Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
Source: Women
“Nothing was ever more hostile," she told me years later, "than this gnarled, twisted selflessness that chokes you like a bad debt and always makes you feel slightly unworthy and always unkind in the end.”
Source: Out of Egypt: A Memoir
“Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts”
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed.”
Source: Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film
“Nothing was further from the mind of the original middle classes than any conception of the rights of man and citizen. Personal liberty itself was not claimed as a natural right. It was sought only for the advantages it conferred. This is so true that at Arras, for example, merchants tried to have themselves classed as serfs of the monastery of St. Vast in order to enjoy the exemption from the market-tolls which had been accorded to the latter.”
Source: Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
“Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.”
“Nothing was going to compromise my freedom to walk the streets whenever, wherever and with whomever I wanted. I saw fame as being akin to living in a high-security prison and I didn’t want to go there. How can you win just enough and then leave the table? Go to a Gamblers Anonymous meeting and you’ll see it’s easier said than done. I’d have to be very careful to not let things get out of control. I resolutely avoided looking at charts, bank balances, reviews, radio or television appearances, and carried on like nothing out of the ordinary had happened.”
Source: Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
“Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.”
“Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Nothing was left in his voice but equanimity, apathy; fire had burned everything else out of it. It’s men like that you need for fighting.”
Source: Storm of Steel
“Nothing was made in Trinidad.”
“Nothing was more cruel than a heart made of flesh and blood, because it knew what gives pain.”
Source: Inkdeath
“Nothing was more powerful than the sun before it went down, nor more beautiful. She took a long deep breath. She could watch the sky for hours but then she knew that Mark really did deserve some sort of an answer.”
“Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.”
“Nothing was more valuable than the printed word.”
“Nothing was okay. And he was far from home.”
Source: The Speaker
“Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“Nothing was ordinary, since nothing had ever happened to me.”
Source: I Who Have Never Known Men
“Nothing was permanent, even discontentment.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Nothing was planned. It all seemed to happen, and I adjusted to it. I lacked a basic factor: insecurity – anything that attracted my curiosity.”
“Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.”
“Nothing was sacred, nothing was safe. Privacy in today's civilization was a delusion, a myth. Every citizen was exposed, his deepest secrets laid bare, waiting to be read.
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If one knew where to look, and if one was patient, all the facts were available.”
Source: Bloodline
“Nothing was scarier than the fact that the person who was your best friend, your soul mate, could become unrecognisable to you in the blink of an eye. With a few words, they could kill your happiness.”
Source: The Armageddon Conspiracy
“Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.”
“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”
Source: Fight Club
“Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning.”
“Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.”
Source: The Writing Class
“Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.”
“Nothing was wrong. That was the problem.”
Source: Remaining
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”
Source: Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition
“Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.”
Source: The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
“Nothing we can do together is ever going to be embarrassing.”
Source: Crimson Moon
“Nothing we can't handle, break it up and dismantle.”
“Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.”
Source: This Immortal
“Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”
“Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.”
Source: Making Peace
“Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.”
“Nothing we do is constructive or meaningful. We choose to insult, mock, ridicule, and undermine each other. We don’t teach, build each other up, encourage, or support one another. Instead, we bring each other down and destroy each other. How can we live together if we choose not to share with others? For all of us to prosper and survive, we need to choose to do better.”
“Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.”