N Quotes
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“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.”
“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
“Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch
“Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.”
Source: The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis
“Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.”
“Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.”
“Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.”
“Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.”
“Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.”
“Neither materialism, nor spiritualism reveals the truth - neither atheism, nor theism reveals the truth - neither intellectualism, nor callousness reveals the truth. Truth is beyond all opposites.”
Source: A Push in Perception
“Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist.
[Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis
Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]”
“Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.”
“Neither mislead nor misguide.”
“Neither monasticism nor materialism will do. To move forward we must stand whole and true.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“Neither money or the state are the 'root of all evil', as both are human constructs. The 'root' of all human constructs are, well, humans, the only real source of evil.”
“Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.”
“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.”
“Neither my acts have wiped the woes of
any sufferer out, nor have I cured
pains of wounded ones;
with the faith pompous mercenary,
O' Glorious! O 'Lord Almighty!
how can I bow my head in your adulation?”
Source: मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]
“Neither my deeds contain any essence
nor, my gestures have sense of zeal,
my days are creeping forth for nothingness;
with this body deficient of heart and soul
O' Glorious! O' Lord Almighty !
how can I come close to you?”
Source: मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]
“Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda.”
“Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor.”
“Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.”
“Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business,
Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care
Take hold on me; for my particular grief
Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature
That it engluts and swallows other sorrows,
And it is still itself.”
“Neither my readers nor I are in the relatively sunlit uplands depicted in White Teeth anymore. But the lesson I take from this is not that the lives in that novel were illusory, but rather that progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and *reimagined* if it is to survive.”
Source: Feel Free: Essays
“Neither mystical nor intellectual, if you must be, be a humanitarian nut.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Neither nature nor history can tell us what we ought to do. Facts, whether those of nature or those of history, cannot make the decision for us, they cannot determine the ends we are going to choose. It is we who introduce purpose and meaning into nature and into history. Men are not equal; but we can decide to fight for equality. Human institutions such as the state are not rational, but we can decide to fight to make them more rational. We ourselves and our ordinary language are, on the whole, emotional rather than rational; but we can try to become a little more rational, and we can train ourselves to use our language as an instrument not of self-expression (as our romantic educationists would say) but of rational communication. History itself I mean the history of power politics, of course, not the non-existent story of the development of mankind has no end nor meaning, but we can decide to give it both. We can make it our fight for the open society and against its antagonists (who, when in a corner, always protest their humanitarian sentiments, in accordance with Pareto's advice) and we can interpret it accordingly. Ultimately, we may say the same about the 'meaning of life'. It is up to us to decide what shall be our purpose in life, to determine our ends. This dualism of facts and decisions is, I believe, fundamental. Facts as such have no meaning; they can gain it only through our decisions. Historicism is only one of many attempts to get over this dualism; it is born of fear, for it shrinks from realizing that we bear the ultimate responsibility even for the standards we choose. But such an attempt seems to me to represent precisely what is usually described as superstition. For it assumes that we can reap where we have not sown; it tries to persuade us that if we merely fall into step with history everything will and must go right, and that no fundamental decision on our part is required; it tries to shift our responsibility on to history, and thereby on to the play of demoniac powers beyond ourselves; it tries to base our actions upon the hidden intentions of these powers, which can be revealed to us only in mystical inspirations and intuitions; and it thus puts these actions and decisions on the moral level of one who, inspired by horoscopes and dreams, chooses his lucky number in a lottery.”
Source: The Open society & its enemies: Vol 2 Hegel & Marx
“Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.”
Source: Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: Essays
“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.”
Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.”
“Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.”
“Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.”
“Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.”
“Neither of the boys understand what's going on,"
The driver's mother noted.
"Who does?" the young poet asked himself.”
“Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce.”
Source: The Easter Parade
“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”
Source: The Big Sleep: A Novel
“Neither of them gave a second glance to the plush bedrooms, and they walked past the furry room without slowing their steps. When they passed the nursery, which was in use but had the door wide open, Donavan stopped dead in his tracks, then took a couple steps back.
An amused smile played at Seth’s mouth as he watched the horrified expression on Donavan’s face grow. Seth wasn’t amused because of the shock factor. He had no issues with what two consenting adults chose to do. He was just happy as hell Donavan wasn’t turned on by the sight before him. Diapers and midnight feedings had never been a part of Seth’s life, nor did he want them to be. He was perfectly happy handing all babies over to their owners.
Donavan finally turned away and stepped back up next to Seth. “We shall never talk about what I just saw ever again. Hell, I don’t ever want to think about it.”
Seth laid his hand against the small of Donavan’s back. “Let’s go find something that will take your mind off it, shall we?”
“Yes, please.” The urgency in Donavan’s voice caused Seth to chuckle quietly.”
Source: Override
“Neither of them is right. And neither of them is wrong. Prophecies are strange things. Their words are never clear.”
Source: Moonrise
“Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and recording everything.”
Source: Singularity Sky
“Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.”
“Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)”
Source: Minutes Before Sunset
“Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.”
“Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.”
“Neither of us had lived in a house since we were kids; apartments, it turns out, are very different things, psychologically. Houses—especially old and creaky houses—are individuals, somehow; their fronts are faces, their closets are pants pockets.”
“Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss.”
Source: The Pull of the Stars