Quotations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
- Edith Summerskill quotes
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
- John Berger quotes
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball!
- Charles V quotes
Nando's does the best chicken wings in the world. If I do eat out, I go to Chinatown.
- Carol Thatcher quotes
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
- Graham Taylor quotes
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
- Thomas Szasz quotes
Nastase is a Hamlet who wants to play a clown, but he is no good at it; his gags are bad, his timing is terrible and he never know how he's going over the top - which last drawback is the kiss of death for a comic.
- Clive James quotes
Nation shall speak peace unto nation (Motto of BBC)
- John Montague Rendall quotes
National honour is the national property of the highest value
- James Monroe quotes
National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
- Kofi Annan quotes
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- George Orwell quotes
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
- Benjamin Disraeli quotes
Nations and empires flourish and decay,
By turns command, and in their turns obey
- Ovid quotes
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. [and therein lies the problem?]
- Abraham Flexner quotes
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die
- Giuseppe Mazzini quotes
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
- Henry Bolingbroke quotes
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams
- Mary Ellen Kelly quotes
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
- Francis Bacon quotes
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
- John Updike quotes
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
- Ronald Fisher quotes
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favours not only the clever but the murderous.
- Barbara Ehrenreich quotes
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.'
- Friedrich Engels quotes
Nature abhors a vacuum
- Francois Rabelais quotes
Nature can satisfy all of our needs but none of our greeds.
- Mahatma Gandhi quotes
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
- Blaise Pascal quotes
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu quotes
Nature does not make jumps
- Carl Linnaeus quotes
Nature favours those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
- James Lovelock quotes
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus quotes
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- Coco Chanel quotes
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Samuel Johnson quotes
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
- Will Durant quotes
Nature has no cure for this sort of madness (Bolshevism), though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.
- F E Smith (first Earl Of Birkenhead) quotes
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, 'I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.'
- Maya Angelou quotes
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
- Anatole France quotes
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
- Mary Wortley Montagu quotes
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- Quintilian quotes
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
- Cicero quotes
Nature intended women to be our slaves... THey are our property... They belong to us, just as a tree that bears fruit belongs to a gardener.
- Napoleon Bonaparte quotes
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine.
- Eric Hoffer quotes
