Nor Quotes

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind

As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know that life is most joyful when you
neither attempt to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...
Every step toward the goal of justice
requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle;
the tireless exertions and
passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot

We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu

Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi

An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who
listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity,
for they shall live forever.
Forever.
- Khalil Gibran

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu

Deceive not thy physician, confessor,
nor lawyer.
- George Herbert

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved,
nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
- Norman Borlaug

Never think that war, no matter how necessary,
nor how justified, is not a crime.
- Ernest Hemingway

A true king is neither husband nor father;
he considers his throne and nothing else.
- Pierre Corneille

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- William Congreve

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus

A true poet does not bother to be poetical.
Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
- Jean Cocteau

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness.
The only ones who can forgive are dead;
the living have no right to forget.
- Chaim Herzog

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- Baruch Spinoza

You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17

We are not the same persons this year as last;
nor are those we love.
It is a happy chance if we, changing,
continue to love a changed person.
- W. Somerset Maugham

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred
on an American than to have a public school named after him.
- Herbert Hoover

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change,
nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of
a society can be understood without understanding both.
- C. Wright Mills

The largest party in America, by the way,
is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans.
It's the party of non-voters.
- Robert Reich

We are not what we are,
nor do we treat or esteem each other for such,
but for what we are capable of being.
- Henry David Thoreau

The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The Buddha

No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others,
nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Theodor Adorno

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye,
nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
- William Congreve

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance.
I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures.
But it is mine.
- Theodore Bikel

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows
nor tolerates classes among citizens.
- John Marshall Harlan

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the
story nor the character of Cressida.
- Walter Legge

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that,
but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy,
an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.
- Roone Arledge

There is no greater glory than love,
nor any great punishment than jealously.
- Lope de Vega

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding
star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly,
neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
- Gustav Mahler

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade,
both being connected together.
- Dudley North

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop,
thanks.
- Evan Hunter

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer,
nor am I very interested in becoming so.
I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than
what I am not sure I could do.
- Giorgio Moroder

What I say or do here won't matter much,
nor should it.
- Dan Rather

A country cannot subsist well without liberty,
nor liberty without virtue.
- Daniel Webster

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least,
nor who have done most for us, but those who make it
most easy for us to forgive them.
- Samuel Butler

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