Nay Quotes - page 10

In her youth she had indulged a passion towards a young monarch of a neighbouring island, Glanden, whose subjects, though they enjoyed the benefits of fairly-dispensed justice, suffered such disparities of condition, that some of them were born with saddles on their backs, and others booted and spurred to mount and ride during their lives. Shocking! yet countless eyes certified its truth: nay, even the Glandens admit the charge, but deem their island the most delightful in the world, and the most favourable for human improvement and comfort. (Alexander Bryan Johnson)
Christ puts Himself at the head of the mystic march of the generations; and. like the mysterious aneel that Joshua saw in the plain by Jericho, makes the lofty claim, "Nay, but as the captain of the Lord's host am I come up." View quote
Alexander Maclaren
Seekest thou a place at my right hand? Nay, I give thee a more wondrous dignity. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne." View quote
Alexander Maclaren
They honour not the man, the living man, The first man who opened His eyes and gazed at the sun With eyelids unquivering. Nay, they do not know Him, and they would not be like Him. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Nature ... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A community which is inspired by feelings of ill-will towards other communities is low and ignoble. I entertain the highest respect for the customs, laws, religious and social institutions of other communities. Nay, it is my duty, according to the teaching of the Quran, even to defend their places of worship, if need be. Yet I love the communal group which is the source of my life and behaviour; and which has formed me what I am by giving me its religion, its literature, its thought, its culture, and thereby recreating its whole past as a living operative factor, in my present consciousness. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
Until the moment when I placed my mouth in his World, he had neither seen me, nor heard anything except confused sounds beating against - what I called his side, but what he called his INSIDE or STOMACH; nor had he even now the least conception of the region from which I had come. Outside his World, or Line, all was a blank to him; nay, not even a blank, for a blank implies Space; say, rather, all was non-existent. View quote
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Pause, fellow-sinner, fellow man, before that wonderful Being that you find now in the manger, now on the cross; follow His wonderful footsteps; dwell on His words; hear His prayers; gaze on His tears, - nay, on His flowing blood, until you fully and firmly believe, never to doubt it, or forget that God loves us when we do not love Him. View quote
Edward Norris Kirk
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
Meet me by moonlight alone, And then I will tell you a tale Must be told by the moonlight alone, In the grove at the end of the vale! You must promise to come, for I said I would show the night-flowers their queen. Nay, turn not away that sweet head, 'T is the loveliest ever was seen. View quote
J. Augustine Wade
Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. (Homer)
Noah said "Nay; I'll make thee an offer, The same as I did t'other day. A penny a foot and a free ride. Now, come on, lad, what does tha say?" "Three ha'pence a foot," came the answer. So Noah 'is sail 'ad to hoist, And sailed off again in a dudgeon, While Sam stood determined, but moist. View quote
Marriott Edgar
Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught. View quote
William Shakespeare
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature. View quote
William Shakespeare
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 sayThat Time comes stealing on by night and day. View quote
William Shakespeare
Fie, fie upon herThere's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body. View quote
William Shakespeare
What is this poetry ? A mortal mind Made visible;a caged bird? Nay more:it is a spiritleft behind Nailed by the piercing word. View quote
William Soutar
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Socrates: The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, and other tools for cutting? Alcibiades: Yes. Socrates: But the tool is not the same as the cutter and user of the tool? Alcibiades: Of course not. ... Socrates: Then what shall we say of the shoemaker? Does he cut with his tools only or with his hands? Alcibiades: With his hands as well. Socrates: He uses his hands too? Alcibiades: Yes. ... Socrates: And does not a man use the whole body? Alcibiades: Certainly. Socrates: And that which uses is different from that which is used? Alcibiades: True. Socrates: Then a man is not the same as his own body? Alcibiades: That is the inference. Socrates: What is he, then? Alcibiades: I cannot say. Socrates: Nay, you can say that he is the user of the body. Alcibiades: Yes. Socrates: And the user of the body is the soul? Alcibiades: Yes, the soul. View quote
Plato
The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others. View quote
John Locke
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. (John Locke)
Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society - nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion. View quote
Albert Einstein
We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be otherwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see thus, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! View quote
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Nothing does so much turn our life upside down, as delay and procrastination in the performance of our good works. Nay, this has often caused us to lose all. View quote
John Chrysostom
...his chiselled style was an amalgamation of the very best in the tradition of Hindustani classical music, nay music in its fullness, a musical inheritance that goes back to the all-time greats like a Thansen, a Tyagaraja or a Beethoven. View quote
Bhimsen Joshi