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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
— Alfred North Whitehead
This is Louisiana, Dave. Guatemala North. Quit pretending it's the United States. Life will make a lot more sense, he said.
— James Lee Burke
It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men.
— Claire North
Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors.
— Douglas Coupland
The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
I know what it's like to live in a cold climate. I grew up in the Snow Belt, north of Toronto in Canada, and I did years and years of running outside.
— Victoria Pratt
Lake Taupo is on the north island of New Zealand and in the countryside. I absolutely fell in love with it.
— Juan Pablo Galavis
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
— Dudley North
There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner.
— Arnold Bennett
The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
— Thomas Merton
How kind you are, North Wind!'
'I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it. — George MacDonald
'I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it. — George MacDonald
Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.
— David Letterman
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
— Dennis Prager
If it was possible for two people to make sparks, simply by connecting at their lips, I would think we would have been a firework display in the dark.
— Kristen Hope Mazzola
Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.
— David Letterman
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
— Alex North
Morning light through his windshield was pale and tired; the city had the desultory, cluttered look of a living room after a drunken party; Martin
— Richard North Patterson
Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
— Kim Jong Il
O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North. — Alfred Tennyson
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North. — Alfred Tennyson
She's Canadian!"
"Minnesotan," Anna said.
"Sugarplum, anything north of Kentucky's all Canada to us — Jamie Farrell
"Minnesotan," Anna said.
"Sugarplum, anything north of Kentucky's all Canada to us — Jamie Farrell
Between a half and two-thirds of all Europeans who migrated to North America between 1650 and 1780 did so under contracts of indentured servitude;
— Niall Ferguson
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
— Wallace Stevens
That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read.
— Haruki Murakami
Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.
— Mick Jagger
Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
— Alfred North Whitehead
North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.
— Richard Armitage
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
— Arthur Erickson
He who is silent is seen to consent.
— Claire North
Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.
— Marsden Wagner
North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
— Barbara Demick
I've been to North Africa many times.
— Martin Scorsese
On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.
— Michelle Yeoh
Value is coextensive with reality.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Algebraic to the limit!
— Ryan North
I could have gone either north or south but decided to strike off north because it was my favorite direction.
— Alan Bradley
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations
— Alfred North Whitehead
You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.
— Claire North
Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.
— Oliver North
God knows, we don't want prayer.
— Oliver North
Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production.
— Clive Thompson
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
— Alfred North Whitehead
There is no nature in an instant.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.
— Ernest Thompson Seton
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Meg, you have to go. I can't.
— R.J. Harlick
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
— Oliver North
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.
— David Sedaris
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
— Alfred North Whitehead
After a night of drinking, she would be a pale, starling-sized creature, but now, in this place, she is moonlight in heels.
— Claire North
When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
— Sean Connery
During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.
— Kailash Satyarthi
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
— Jim Balsillie
It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.
— Jamie Campbell Bower
Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
— Bernard Arnault
The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
They do not expect the north to believe their lies, not truly, but they think we must pretend to believe or die.
— George R R Martin
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
— Oliver North
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Europeans have depth but not distance while North Americans have distance but not depth.
— Samuel Beckett
My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. All
— Gary Paulsen
Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.
— Richard North Patterson
a small bike shop north of Phoenix, in Glendale, Arizona. It's called the Roadrunner Bike Center.
— Brad Stone
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
— Alfred North Whitehead
We need to encourage our kids to express their feelings. We need to help them find their voice.
— Ryan North
There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords," he thundered. "The King in the North!
— George R R Martin
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
— Douglass North
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
North Americans don't understand ... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
— Fidel Castro
North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.'
— Stephen Colbert
I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.
— Scotty McCreery
Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.
— N. Scott Momaday
The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
— Alfred North Whitehead