Nor Quotes

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.

Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.