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N Quotes

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses. - Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)

Vanity made the revolution; liberty was only a pretext. -Napoleon

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga. -R.K. Narayan, novelist (1906-2001)


To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. -Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971)

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971)

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. (Ogden Nash)


Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -George Jean Nathan, author and editor (1882-1958)

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. -Martina Navrtilova

A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. - John Neal


The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed. -Suzanne Necker, author (1739-1794)

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. -Suzanne Necker, author (1739-1794)



The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -Dorothy Nevill

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber

It often shows an excellent command of language to say nothing. -Karol Newlin


If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. -Isaac Newton

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. -Isaac Newton, philosopher and mathematician (1642-1727)

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton, philosopher and mathematician (1642-1727)

 


Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. -Beverly Nichols, author

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -John Nichols, novelist (1940- )

They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist; They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist; They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me. -Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984
 


Friedrich Nietzsche ~1844-1900, German Philosopher
 
Things are not as they are... they are as we are -Anais Nin

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. --Anais Nin)

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. -Anais Nin (1903-1977) [The Diary of Anais Nin]

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -Anais Nin, French-born American writer (1903-1977)

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. — Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. -Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. -Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais Nin, author (1903-1977)
 

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. -Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. -Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)
 



O Quotes

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. -Joyce Carol Oates, writer (1938- )

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -Sean O'Casey, playwright (1880-1964)

Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. -Flannery O'Connor, writer (1925-1964)

If you don't execute your ideas, they die. -Roger von Oech, author and consultant

Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm. -John O'Hara, journalist (1905-1970)

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Kakuzo Okakaura

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. -Austin O'Malley

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats. -O'Neill

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. -James Oppenheim

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben


If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. -George Orwell, writer(1903-1950)

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)


Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry. Charles Osgood

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. -William Osler, Canadian-born British physician (1849-1919)

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
-Ouida, pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee (1839-1908)

Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny." --Frank Outlaw


Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -Ovid, poet (43 BCE - CE 17)

You can learn from anyone even your enemy. -Ovid, poet (43 BCE - CE 17)