The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.
‐‐ Tucker Max
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
‐‐ Jacques Lacan
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
‐‐ Lily Cole
The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'
‐‐ Mark Bradford
The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage
The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton
The Narrator of 'A Sport and a Pastime' is an American photographer living in a borrowed house in what he calls 'the real France,' Autun, a small town where he hopes to take some career-changing photographs in the spirit of Atget.
‐‐ Alexander Chee
The narrow path that 'Uncommon' people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.
‐‐ Tony Dungy
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan
The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin
The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki
The Nashville Network, that's all I would watch as a kid.
‐‐ Shane McAnally
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
‐‐ Jane Byrne
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
‐‐ Franz von Papen
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
‐‐ John Moody
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
‐‐ Edith Stein
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
‐‐ Aleksander Kwasniewski
The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.
‐‐ Sharron Angle
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
‐‐ Ralph Nader
The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.
‐‐ Bill Haslam
The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal
The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?
‐‐ Muhammad Ali
The nation of Israel has had enough one-time leaders.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog
The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.
‐‐ David Ignatius
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.
‐‐ Evita Peron
The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
‐‐ Steve Buyer
The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope.
‐‐ Robert Dallek
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
‐‐ James Thurber
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
‐‐ Paul Harris
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
‐‐ Alexander Graham Bell
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
‐‐ Khaleda Zia
The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.
‐‐ Corazon Aquino
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
‐‐ Alexander Hamilton
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
‐‐ Ralph G. Neas
The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
‐‐ Hassanal Bolkiah
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
‐‐ Paul R. Ehrlich
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.
‐‐ Fred Upton
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
‐‐ Bill Delahunt
The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi
The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.
‐‐ Robert Casey
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
‐‐ Gary Miller
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
‐‐ Earl Blumenauer
The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.
‐‐ John Barrasso
The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
‐‐ Russel Honore
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci
The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.
‐‐ Leonard Boswell