Nay Quotes

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Truth Day You Truth Is Will Tough Kick All Day About Touch Bubble Football Like May Break Full Nay Evening Round
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! Maya Angelou
Courage Light Will Mirror Understanding Our Say Ourselves See Rise Like According Confront Nay
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Charles Darwin
Wish Universe Once Insect Systems Laws Allow Smallest Governed Created Planets Act Special Whole Nay Satellites Universes
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. Anna Julia Cooper
Needs Man Woman World Cause Black White Brown Strongest Voice Red Hear Nor Intelligent Tis Ignorant Speaking Nay Even Vindication Her
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance. Tom Hodgkinson
Saying You Creative Peace Creative Process Important Nothing Lying Way Give Fact Crucial Lazy Part Around Does Doing Gets Being In Fact Process Mean Being Lazy Create Meaningless Really Productivity Nay Bustle Actually Chance
I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life. Dayananda Saraswati
Life Love Truth Good Made My Life Own Duty Others Follow Object Sake Falsehood Persuade Act Nay
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Henry David Thoreau
You Thought Worlds Channels Columbus New Opening Within Trade Continents Whole Nay
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. Arthur Keith
Old Christian Ancient More Ideal Than Much Nay
Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it. Arthur Quiller-Couch
Life Art Me You Will Gentleman Painting Believe Indeed Tell All Your Life Admit Having Write He Prose Spoken Bourgeois Knowing Well Without Very Sir Oh Whereas Anyone Either Your Special English Nay
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time. Ben Shapiro
Time Failure Human Being Political Impossible Politician Every President Everyone Our Syndrome Worship Our Time Members Obama Finds Finest Primarily Mainstream Mainstream Media Voters Excuses Him Attributes Around Opponents Praises Affecting Political Opponents Human Being Capabilities Nay Media
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. Edward Coke
Life Law Nothing Else Perfection Itself Common Common Law Which Reason Nay
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Organization Say Would Would-Be True Almost Loose Always Large Nay
The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving. Isabella Bird
Mountains Air Dream Exceed Magnificent Rocky Rocky Mountains Childhood Realize Nay
You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself. James Cameron
You Yourself Cause Will Doubt More Qualified Sort Because Than Listen Often Much Many Nay
I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army. John Paul Jones
Service Army Happy Will Unless Months Enter Possible Must Some Proper More Never Longer Term Induce Fallen Repeat Than Subordination Expedient Them Far Fleet Twelve Nay Asserted Necessary Bring
When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts. John Tavener
Beautiful Music Art Simple Innocence Extraordinarily Flute Find Indian See Primordial Most Particularly Talk Traditional Hear Been Texts Very American Childlike Interested Icons Nay Sufi
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. Samuel Johnson
Good You Money Luxury Giving Spend Spending More Make Industry Without Exert Idle Doing Doing Good Than Whereas Cannot Them Poor Nay Keep
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. Sigmund Freud
Happy Other Pleasure Some Give Attainable Towards Come Principle Becoming Goal Up Efforts May Cannot Which Realization Us Means Nay Nearer
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. Susanna Moodie
Truth Great Nature Liar Pride Christianity Other Say Recognize Hater Always May Reason Nay
Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief. William Godwin
Grief Will Pressing Remedy Occupation Said Sovereign Nay
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. Quintilian
Man Destruction Better Neighbor Gifts Would Born Rather Void He Employ Been His Providence Dumb Than Should Reason Nay

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