No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.


J.M. Coetzee

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NO DOUBT
It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO
Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO
Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO
It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO
I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO
They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
O...
INITIALLY NO
We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO
We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO
Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO
We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
JUROR NO
I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus...
INITIALLY NO
What amazes me is that no matter how obscure or generic a TV show might be, there’s always someone...
GORD LACEY
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants an...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
If you need something inspirational, just point up to the top of your vision.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Sad but inspirational
MAZ NO PARADISE
We face a new world everyday, try to understand them and love them more than our yesterday.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Believe me, Dream is better than Hope but both Combined is the best.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Recognize every time before doing anything that you always do a miracle.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Sometime if you look up in the sky. There is a path of your destiny.
MAZ NO PARADISE
There is no paradise for you or me.
MAZ NO PARADISE
How much does he lack himself, he who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū
How much does he lack himself who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū
Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG
I expect consumer spending to continue to improve. The central bank is likely to raise interest rate...
IM NO JUNG
The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove...
IM NO JUNG
I know what they are against but have no sense of what they are for.
TREVOR MANUEL
No sense makes sense
CHARLES MANSON
There is no crime in saying NO! Sometimes, you just have to
SOTONYE ANGA
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio...
OSCAR WILDE
If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the mo...
MEEK MILL
Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS...
Have you no sense of decency? ... Have you no sense of decency at long last?
CHARLES STILLMAN
It's a no-brainer, to me. I don't say that to be submissive. It makes sense because of everything �...
JOHN SMOLTZ
It's make no sense. We're schizophrenic.
TROY MURPHY
A devaluation makes no sense.
MIRANDA XAFA
When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY
Buy yourself some time. Interrupt the ‘yes’ cycle, using phrases like “I’ll get back to you,...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
There are no friends in wartime.
FRANK BURNS
How could they find no wrongdoing?
KEVIN MARTINGAYLE
‎... nothing can be perfectly granted to be the best!no perfect, no best! you know why?...we are j...
APPLES ROMANO
Where there is money there is no art.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
CHAD SMITH
NO” is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer som...
SHARON E. RAINEY
No,
ROSA PARKS
Say No To Cecil.
DANIEL DAVIS
No, I don't.
SAMMY SOSA
There were no brawls,
RICHARD SHELBY
No. He didn't get in.
RICHARD SEYMOUR
I said, 'No, I didn't say anything.
CHAI VANG
The op went well and there have been no complications,
JOSH LEWSEY
There's no other place but up.
TRENT MILLER
No, no,
ROBERT FISK
Niemożność dostrzeżenia szerszego kontekstu to zwykły skutek uszkodzenia okolic kory przedczoł...
SAM KEAN
It makes no sense. There are permanent representatives for that.
SERGEI LAVROV
I just feel that with the method they use now ? no sense. I just feel that I don't have the ability ...
CAROL KANESHIRO
There's no sense of proportion. There's no sense of analysis.
MARK COHEN
Suicide thought is a negative force that needs to be overcome with a positive force,positive thinkin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life.
MALTI BHOJWANI
The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an ...
RICHARD JEFFERIES
Who will be left at the end of the day?
The answer is, no one!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS
When we live in the past, there is no future.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no ma...
ED BRADLEY
Very small penis, and no money,
CHRIS PHILLIPS
I never been in no situation where havin' money made it any worse
CLINTON JONES
No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it
EARL WILSON
No government money goes into this,
DAVID KOCH
A heart of stone doesn't know any better.
TOBA BETA
He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
NICK HORNBY
Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. "We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna ...
ROBERT KIRKMAN
Enjoy it, learn from it and more than anything, never take your health for granted. Don’t just sei...
CALVIN WADE
Much money, many friends; little money, no friends.
VIKRANT PARSAI
When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accep...
JOSHUA BELL
I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.
LI NA
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things agains...
OSCAR WILDE
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their house...
STEPHEN KING
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
ADOLF HITLER
"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes"
ADOLF HITLER
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that ...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST
Winning requires a chrystal clear vision, relentless passion and complete dedication with no excuses
FARSHAD ASL
This is the real thing, this is no show pony,
GARY NEVILLE
There's no such thing as protocol,
JEFF BAGWELL
There is no quit in me.
LARRY HOLMES
No! No no no no no no! Well, yes.
DAN CASTELLANETA
Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.
HILLARY CLINTON
Fremantle has no comment on this.
ERIC GREEN
But whenever you need something like that, there's no substitute.
BRAD DEAN
There is no conspiracy here.
STEPHEN MCPHERSON
We have no such plans. That's really about all we have to say.
CHARLES MCDONALD
I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.
CYNTHIA NIXON
Just supose there is no saviour
LOESJE
There's been no friction,
NOEL GALLAGHER
There is no easy way.
GEORGE MITCHELL
There was never 'no' in his vocabulary.
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There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was...
J.M. BARRIE
The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE
Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS
Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN
Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS
I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS
It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS
The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead
young mothers, returned to see...
J.M. BARRIE
Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE
Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world.
J.M. BARRIE
It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to ...
J.M. BARRIE
When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in yo...
J.M. BARRIE
Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the oth...
J.M. BARRIE
It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not ...
J.M. BARRIE
Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE
This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; ...
J.M. BARRIE
she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER
You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER
Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J.M. BARRIE
When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER
He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER
He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. BARRIE
Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no nigh...
J.M. BARRIE
You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
J.M. BARRIE
We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
J.M. BARRIE
Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and me...
J.M. BARRIE
See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
J.M. BARRIE
he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.
J.M. BARRIE
Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you k...
J.M. BARRIE
All children, except one, grow up
J.M. BARRIE
For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether yo...
J.M. BARRIE
No fue el dolor, sino lo in­jus­to del asun­to, lo que aton­tó a Peter. Lo dejó im­po­ten­t...
J.M. BARRIE
Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night
J.M. BARRIE
I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS
The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS