N. Scott Momaday quote: "I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable."

The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergo...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in an...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY

When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your p...
N SMITH

Haters don't really hate you, they hate themselves;
because you're a reflection of what they wi...
YAIRA N

What is the purpose? Do no ask. No one knows, not even God, as He advances along with us, He too, se...
N. KAZANTZAKIS

He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.
N ROME

If I ever get a female dog, I'm gonna name it Karma, cause boy, she's a bitch.
C N

The fact of secrecy makes the public question the truthfulness of what is made public. The final res...
JACK N

I don't think man and woman should be compared, You don't compare things that complete one another.
FAITH N.

You acted like you love me, I acted like I didn't. We were both liars.
FAITH N.

Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me.
ANNA N.

The man who writes has an oppressive and unhappy fate. This is because the nature of his work oblige...
N. KAZANTZAKIS

Chameleon Is The Animal Which Change According To Surrounding, Feature Similar To Human
AX-N

It must be said here, however, that among the activities that all LTTE members, both men and women, ...
N. MALATHY

Though I did not have the statistics, just observing the number of women on the streets during peak ...
N. MALATHY

One of the outstanding features of Vanni society was the degree of integration of disabled people in...
N. MALATHY

This is an inspiring undertaking for America's chemical makers and for industries that use the produ...
JACK N

The only self-incriminating investigation that is considered valid is a plea of 'guilty as charged'....
JACK N

caring for the safety and well being of employees impacted by Katrina.
JACK N

How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
SCOTT

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lu...
A. N. WILSON

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
JOHN N. MITCHELL

I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - mone...
N. T. WRIGHT

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern stat...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along wi...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about pea...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours ...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec...
P. N. ELROD

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD

Death is a monster; death is horrible.
N. T. WRIGHT

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of g...
N. T. WRIGHT

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as...
N. T. WRIGHT

It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we...
N. T. WRIGHT

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discip...
N. T. WRIGHT

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work,...
N. T. WRIGHT

While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'bein...
N. T. WRIGHT

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
N. T. WRIGHT

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in ou...
N. T. WRIGHT

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an aft...
N. T. WRIGHT

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. WRIGHT

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t...
N. T. WRIGHT

Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters...
N. T. WRIGHT

Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...
N. T. WRIGHT

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of cour...
N. T. WRIGHT

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was gl...
N. T. WRIGHT

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want...
N. T. WRIGHT

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theoc...
N. T. WRIGHT

The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is ...
N. T. WRIGHT

Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER

Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvena...
N. ROBERT HAMMER

We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party ana...
N. ROBERT HAMMER

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is...
N. ROBERT HAMMER

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
N. ROBERT HAMMER

The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
N. ROBERT HAMMER

I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS

Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS

I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circu...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS

On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS

Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. MURRAY EDWARDS

It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the las...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS

From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can cre...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. JEMISIN

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat...
N. K. JEMISIN

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can b...
N. K. JEMISIN

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic,...
N. K. JEMISIN

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are st...
N. K. JEMISIN

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern ...
A. N. WILSON

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinc...
A. N. WILSON

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at...
A. N. WILSON

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. WILSON

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,...
A. N. WILSON

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
A. N. WILSON

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
A. N. WILSON

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a...
A. N. WILSON

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a f...
A. N. WILSON

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve ...
A. N. WILSON

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
A. N. WILSON

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. WILSON

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly str...
A. N. WILSON

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George...
A. N. WILSON

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want Preside...
A. N. WILSON

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, o...
A. N. WILSON

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes r...
A. N. WILSON

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers i...
A. N. WILSON

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
A. N. WILSON

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
EDWARD N. LORENZ

Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy device...
NEWTON N. MINOW

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when ...
FRANK N. IKARD

So many thinkers, so few doers.
NABIL N. JAMAL

A key that opens many locks is worth buying.
A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.
NABIL N. JAMAL

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
JOHN N. MITCHELL

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which...
A. N. WILSON

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
GERALD. N. WEISKOTT

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to ...
JOSé N. HARRIS

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
JOSé N. HARRIS

Why start something that you won’t see to the end? You need to finish what you start!
NABIL N. JAMAL

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes...
HERBERT N. CASSON

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very sa...
A. N. WILSON

We are what we believe we are
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, r...
EDWARD N. HURLEY

The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.
N. H. MOOS

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of...
HERBERT N. CASSON

Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
N. F. SIMPSON

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
W. N. EWER

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked wh...
ELAINE N. ARON

Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides wi...
V. N. VOLOSINOV

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
HOSHANG N. AKHTAR

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. WILSON

Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outs...
V. N. VOLOSINOV

The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is di...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

Every winner has scars.
HERBERT N. CASSON

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...
HERBERT N. CASSON

If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to...
HERBERT N. CASSON

Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by ...
S N SHRIVER

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our gove...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

Smile when it hurts most.
JOHN N. MITCHELL

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
JOHN N. MITCHELL

The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a ...
N. W. DOUGHERTY

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. TAYLOR

I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1...
N. ROBERT HAMMER

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our...
OMAR N. BRADLEY

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the laye...
N. K. JEMISIN

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
N. T. WRIGHT

In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premis...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity i...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - ...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, t...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they m...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to De...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends - a challenge proudly met by the...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a universit...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to ...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize th...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching a...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spre...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts ...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkab...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, f...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achi...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. ...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and hon...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no ...
A. N. WILSON

Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I...
N. T. WRIGHT

All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs m...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS

We are what we believe we are.
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO

Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catas...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.
JOHN N. MITCHELL

Let your ambitions fly, let nothing hold you back.
NABIL N. JAMAL

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against ...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
OMAR N. BRADLEY

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of...
N. T. WRIGHT

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms se...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypothes...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO

Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered vi...
N. ROBERT HAMMER

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for t...
A. N. WILSON

To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan ...
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO

I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestselle...
P. N. ELROD

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to ...
A. N. WILSON

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculi...
A. N. WILSON

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day...
A. N. WILSON

If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, ...
EDWARD N. HURLEY

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

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