Quotes about Nay

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. Votes: 4

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Votes: 4

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. Votes: 4

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. Votes: 4

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. Votes: 3

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold. Votes: 3

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. Votes: 3

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. Votes: 3

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. Votes: 3

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well. Votes: 3

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white. Votes: 3

A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact. Votes: 3

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. Votes: 3

And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away. Votes: 3

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Votes: 3

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul. Votes: 3

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal. Votes: 3

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. Votes: 3

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves . Votes: 3

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. Votes: 3

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth. Votes: 3

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. Votes: 3

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies. Votes: 3

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? Votes: 3

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read. Votes: 3

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it. Votes: 3

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. Votes: 3

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity. Votes: 3

God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose. Votes: 3

She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh, God." "Nay, lass. Connor. Votes: 3

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. Votes: 3

Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity? Votes: 3

"Nature" is what we see - The Hill - the Afternoon - Squirrel - Eclipse - the Bumble bee - Nay - Nature is Heaven - Nature is what we hear... Votes: 3

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. Votes: 3

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth Votes: 3

Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day? Votes: 3

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? Votes: 3

The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others and they live apart for many years. Votes: 3

This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural. Votes: 3

It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder. "What's a shame?" Duncan asked. "That I didn't capture her first." Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you. Votes: 3

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. Votes: 3

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. "It's not so easy to break one's heart. Sometimes I've wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,' as is said in the Bible. Votes: 3

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it. Votes: 3

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. Votes: 3

We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told. Votes: 3

Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise Votes: 3

The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men. Votes: 3

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen. Votes: 3

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads. Votes: 3

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable. Votes: 3

Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.] Votes: 3

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man. Votes: 3

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be. Votes: 3

What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? "Nay, none of these!" Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight, Whose eye looks still And steadily on thee through the night; "To do His will! Votes: 3

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. Votes: 3

QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming. Votes: 3

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy? Votes: 3

[It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject Votes: 3

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. Votes: 2

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. Votes: 2

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. Votes: 2

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. Votes: 2

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. Votes: 2

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. Votes: 2

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. Votes: 2

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. Votes: 2

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. Votes: 2

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha. Votes: 0

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example. Votes: 0

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there? Votes: 0

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. Votes: 0

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... Votes: 0

No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold. Votes: 0

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay. Votes: 0

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay. Votes: 0

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree. Votes: 0

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think. Votes: 0

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. Votes: 0

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. Votes: 0

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Votes: 0

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. Votes: 0

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. Votes: 0

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,Good Kate; I am a gentleman. Votes: 0

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die. Votes: 0

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. Votes: 0

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism, Votes: 0

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. Votes: 0

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye) Votes: 0

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)... Votes: 0

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. Votes: 0

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. Votes: 0

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope. Votes: 0

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England. Votes: 0

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it. Votes: 0

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. Votes: 0

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. Votes: 0

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others. Votes: 0

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours. Votes: 0

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason. Votes: 0

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable. Votes: 0

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all. Votes: 0

You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go Votes: 0

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another. Votes: 0

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity Votes: 0

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise. Votes: 0

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. Votes: 0

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company. Votes: 0

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. Votes: 0

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head. Votes: 0

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers. Votes: 0

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. Votes: 0

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions. Votes: 0

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam! Votes: 0

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. Votes: 0

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died. Votes: 0

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland. Votes: 0

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew. Votes: 0

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale. Votes: 0

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people. Votes: 0

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. Votes: 0

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. Votes: 0

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of. Votes: 0

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. Votes: 0

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost. Votes: 0

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone. Votes: 0

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace. Votes: 0

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question. Votes: 0

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke. Votes: 0

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more. Votes: 0

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Votes: 0

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. Votes: 0

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience. Votes: 0

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed. Votes: 0

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.' Votes: 0

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven! Votes: 0

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence. Votes: 0

But we believe "“ nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love. Votes: 0

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions. Votes: 0

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception. Votes: 0

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Votes: 0

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them. Votes: 0

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it. Votes: 0