Neither Quotes

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn 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.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.