N Quotes
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“Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.”
“Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.”
Source: The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters
“Nowadays,” my tour guide says, “it is a man’s world here in China. But 6000 years ago, it was a woman’s world. Man and woman don’t need to get married. Man can just visit the woman’s house at night. When you have a baby, it doesn’t matter who the father is.”
Source: The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
“Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.”
“Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.”
“Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.”
“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.”
“Nowadays, our leaders prefer to search for the causes of crime and poverty in the actions or inaction of those at the very bottom of society. The obscene transfers of wealth over the past forty years from that bottom to a privileged few at the top--and from much of the Third World to financial elites in the West--are all excused as the natural evolution of the Market, when, in fact, they are products of unparalleled greed by those who shape and direct that Market.”
Source: Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
“Nowadays parents expose their kids to riches even before they barely open their eyes”
Source: Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel
“Nowadays people always say, 'How come he's doing such young shows?' But they never mention 'The Mod Squad'. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.”
“Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Nowadays people are choosing to be more aggressive, viler .More toxic. More evil, more racist, more sexist more abusive, more provocative because it gives them engagement and expressions. The more engagement or expressions the more they get paid in some social media platforms. People are now choosing to lose their morals, values, principles and teachings because of that payment. But what good is the money or how do you even enjoy it . When you know you got the money by hurting, bullying and abusing others. Money comes and goes but your character will be forever questionable because of your actions. Good or bad whatever you put out there. Will eventually come back to you. Choose wisely.”
“Nowadays people are miserable together, but happy individually. Other people's misfortune makes them happy.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.”
“Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.”
“Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.”
“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear every day in the ad for Bella Perfume.”
“Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.”
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years”
“Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.”
“nowadays people sell their personality because of something and something is given away by taking away their personality.”
“Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.”
“Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.”
Source: The Passion
“Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.”
Source: Medusa
“Nowadays, people who need to maintain law and order behave like terrorists to plunge their flight into common man's building, the policeman”
“Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.”
Source: The collected plays
“Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.”
“Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion”
“Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?”
“Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, and understanding would not lessen any pain. The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached a state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere.”
Source: Cold Enough for Snow
“Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.”
“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”
Source: Love
“Nowadays, social media reels are the biggest uncontrolled open red light area.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Nowadays, some 60–70 percent of our clients turn to us as PR consultants—and it seems to be exactly the same everywhere in the world—for two main reasons: crisis management and reputation management.”
Source: The Global PR Revolution: How Thought Leaders Succeed in the Transformed World of PR
“Nowadays some people have become
intimate with thoughts
but unfriendly with the heart
They have become a clueless eye
that does not see itself”
Source: Porridge Eaters and Gruel Drinkers: A Nepali Poetry Collection
“Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.”
“Nowadays, the darkness is brighter than the light.”
“Nowadays, the disease claims, on average, 36,000 Americans each year, out of a population of 320 million. Contrast this with another number: 35,092 Americans died in motor vehicle accidents in 2015.”
Source: Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
“Nowadays, the disease comes on a doctor’s prescription.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.”
“Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“Nowadays the job of the judge is not to do justice. The judge is more of a functionary . He's like a civil servant whose job is to interpret words written down by another branch of the government, whether those words are just or not.”
“Nowadays, the majority of people are searching online for any business. They want to see that you are credible and want to hear it straight from another customer’s mouth. People will still look your business up even after getting a recommendation from a trusted family or friend.”
“Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.”
“Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.”
Source: Erasmus on His Times: A Shortened Version of the 'Adages' of Erasmus
“Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life.”
“Nowadays the usage of phones is so commonplace that to even question the teeny-tiny hit of vacuous, underserved and slow-dripped dopamine people get from their mindless, self-orientated filters and status updates is to mark yourself an out of the times philistine and backward threat to the groupthink mentality.”
Source: Chameleon
“Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.”