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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.