Neither Quotes

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

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

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.