Author | Quote |
Topic |
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Nader, Ralph | "I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. " | Business |
Nader, Ralph | "People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. " | Technology |
Narosky, Jose | "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. " | War |
Nathan, George Jean | "A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. " | Love |
Nathan, George Jean | "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. " | Patriotism |
Near, Holly | "Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? " | War |
Negroponte, Nicholas | "Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. " | Computer |
Nemerov, Howard | "Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. " | Science |
Neuman, Alfred E. | "We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. " | Society |
Neumann, John von | "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. " | Science |
Newman, Paul | "The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films. " | Movie |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | "Without music, life would be a mistake. " | Music |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | "In music the passions enjoy themselves. " | Music |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. " | Art |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | "Faith means not wanting to know what is true." | Faith |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. " | Life |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. " | Faith |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | "The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. " | Religion |
Nin, Anais | "Dreams are necessary to life. " | Dream |
Nin, Anais | "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. " | Art |
Nin, Anais | "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. " | Dream |
Nin, Anais | "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. " | Love |
Nin, Anais | "People living deeply have no fear of death. " | Life |
Ningen, Sean | "The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell. " | Religion |
Nirmalananda, Swami | "Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. " | Society |
Nixon, Richard M. | "I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate... " | History |
Nixon, Richard M. | "Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. " | History |
Nixon, Richard M. | "You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. " | History |
Nixon, Richard M. | "It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. " | History |
Nixon, Richard M. | "There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. " | History |
Nixon, Richard M. | "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. " | History |
Nixon, Richard M. | "A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. " | War |
Nobel, Dr. Joel J. | "The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive. " | Technology |
Nordberg, Howard | "Life is a cement trampoline. " | Life |
Norman, Marsha | "Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. " | Dream |
Norris, Kathy | "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. " | Life |
North, Oliver | "I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. " | History |
Norton, Isabel | "In my friend, I find a second self. " | Friendship |
Nouwen, Henri | "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. " | Friendship |
Nouwens, Hans | "In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. " | Love |
Novak, Michael | "Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. " | Government |
Novalis, | "Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. " | Poetry |
Novalis, | "The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. " | Art |