Religion
is a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the
candle is always the same.
Mohammed Naguib (1901-1984)
Egyptian politician and general
No
person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of
those under him.
Rev. W. A.
Nance
The
genius of you Americans is that you never make any clear-cut stupid moves, only
complicated stupid moves that leave us scratching our heads wondering if we
might possibly have missed something.
Gamel Abdel
Nasser (1918-1970) Egyptian soldier,
statesman
Last
season we couldn’t win at home and we were losing on the road. My failure as a
coach was that I couldn’t think of anyplace else to play.
Harry Neale, NHL coach
Knowing what goes
on behind my placid exterior, I have a strong suspicion of what goes on behind
yours.
Richard Needham
The
real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place
but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Lady Dorothy Nevill (1826-1913)
British society hostess, wit, horticulturalist
Rules are like
flagpoles in a slalom race: you observe their presence religiously, skirt
around them as closely as possible and never let them cut your speed.
Katherine Neville
I don’t like
country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means “put down.”
Bob Newhart American actor
Never...
think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various
kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our
character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should
act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto
experienced.
Cardinal John
Henry Newman (1801-1890) English prelate
and theologian
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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then
finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac
Newton (1642-1727) English physicist and
mathematician
I
am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to
be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I
am.
John Newton (1725-1807) English minister, hymnist, former slave trader
Man's
capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to
injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
American theologian and clergyman
The Children of Light and the
Children of Darkness
In
Martin Niemoller
It
is not so much the suffering as the senselessness of it that is unendurable.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and
poet
In every real man, a child is
hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and
poet
What is done for
love is always beyond good and evil.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and
poet
'Every
man has his price.' This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over
certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of
humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you
cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit;
other kinds of souls have others.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and
poet
Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen
and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists,
astrologers, and wizards who thirsted and hungered after abscondite
and forbidden powers?
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and
poet
It is the music
in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, with which the sound of all puritan
litanies, all moral homilies and old-fashioned respectability won’t go.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and
poet
The
surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those
who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and
poet
We
should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And
we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one
laugh.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and
poet
One must still have chaos in
oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German philosopher and poet,
Thus Spake
Zarathustra
There is nothing
noble about being superior to your fellow man, True
Nobility is being superior to your former self.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher
and poet
There are two
things a real man likes - danger and play. And he likes women because she is
the most dangerous of playthings.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German
philosopher and poet
If you gaze long
enough into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German
philosopher and poet
If an injury has to be done
to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German
philosopher and poet
It
takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to
test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk
it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took
to blossom.
Anais Nin
Love never dies a
natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It
dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds.
Anais Nin
Some
people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Louis Nizer (1902-1994)
British-American lawyer
Cynicism
is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it
means you don't have to try.
Peggy Noonan (b. 1950) American writer
Use your own best judgment at
all times.
The entire
Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual
Her voice sounded
like an eagle being goosed.
Ralph Novak (about Yoko Ono)