No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
‐‐ Polykarp Kusch
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
‐‐ Michael Shermer
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
‐‐ Albrecht Durer
No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.
‐‐ Jonathan Schell
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
‐‐ Mark Twain
No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.
‐‐ Rosser Reeves
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
‐‐ Henry Taylor
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
‐‐ Bob Riley
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
‐‐ John Stuart Mill
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley
No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
‐‐ Steve Irwin
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
‐‐ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
‐‐ Adam Smith
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
‐‐ Max Weber
No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra
No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy
No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party?
‐‐ Gore Vidal
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
‐‐ Jacques Yves Cousteau
No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.
‐‐ Bill Engvall
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
‐‐ Franz Kafka
No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.
‐‐ Frankie Avalon
No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.
‐‐ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt
No species is more important than others.
‐‐ Paul Watson
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
‐‐ Sophocles
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
‐‐ John Donne
No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
‐‐ Adelaide Anne Procter
No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.
‐‐ Dannel Malloy
No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson
No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange
No state legislature ever built a great university.
‐‐ James E. Rogers
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
‐‐ Mahmoud Abbas
No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
‐‐ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
No state should have to endure the threat of terrorists entering our borders.
‐‐ Matt Mead
No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
‐‐ David Edward Jenkins
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein
No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
‐‐ George Eliot
No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
‐‐ Siobhan Fahey
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever 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 when the buildings were built.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright
No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.
‐‐ James P. Cannon
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
‐‐ Charles Kendall Adams