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My wife recently put me on a diet after suggesting (a little unkindly, if you ask me), that I was beginning to look like something Richard Branson would try to get airborne.
Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998) -
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
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Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
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Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
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Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
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No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a ''Master of Arts'' and a ''Doctor of Philosophy'' after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
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No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
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Nothing would astonish me more, after all these years, except to be understood.
Letters of Ellen Glasgow
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