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No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant.

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

On current form, both teams will probably lose.

One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.