Nor Quotes
6149 Nor quotes by 3085 unique authors
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Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.
— Yasser Arafat
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When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should…
— Marcus Terentius Varro
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Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight,…
— Toni Morrison
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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
— Roger L'Estrange
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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel…
— Thomas Traherne
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It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and…
— Dave Hampton
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You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.
— Henri Matisse
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[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as…
— V. S. Pritchett
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Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice.…
— Unknown Author
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
— Henry Fielding
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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
— James Russell Lowell
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The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
— Frederick William Robertson
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It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
— Unknown Author
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
— Joseph Addison
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
— Ellis Peters
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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,…
— George Boole
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive,…
— Robert Browning
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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