Neither Quotes

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

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

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

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.