#vin

Caress the detail, the divine detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#detail #divine

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#creative #creative person #even #important #involving

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#confer #convinced #exist #greatest #honors

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#difficult #difficult times #living #risk #times

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#back #credibility #effort #having #heavily

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. ↗

— Graham Nash

#everything #generally #happens #influenced #living

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#begins #benefit #check #current #expect

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#every #having #itch #scratch