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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. -- Susanna Moodie
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. -- Horace Mann
Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? -- Thomas Hooker
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. -- Samuel Johnson
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. -- Anna Julia Cooper
Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. -- William Shakespeare
Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold. -- Philip Massinger
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. -- Samuel Johnson
Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. -- William Shakespeare
Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. -- Abraham Cowley
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well. -- Samuel Johnson
Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white. -- Jim Butcher
A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact. -- Augustine of Hippo
Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. -- Karen Marie Moning
And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away. -- Kenneth Rand
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. -- Alexander Pope
You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul. -- Julie Garwood
Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal. -- William Shakespeare
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. -- Jane Austen
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves . -- Diogenes
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. -- Richard A. Proctor
Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth. -- William Shakespeare
Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. -- Homer
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? -- Thomas Carlyle
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read. -- Anya Seton
Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it. -- Emily Bronte
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. -- Marcus Aurelius
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity. -- Emily Dickinson
God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose. -- William Blake
She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh, God." "Nay, lass. Connor. -- Julie Garwood
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. -- Francis Bacon
Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity? -- Oscar Wilde
"Nature" is what we see - The Hill - the Afternoon - Squirrel - Eclipse - the Bumble bee - Nay - Nature is Heaven - Nature is what we hear... -- Emily Dickinson
After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth -- John Wesley
Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day? -- William Shakespeare
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? -- William Shakespeare
The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others and they live apart for many years. -- Subramanya Bharathi
This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural. -- Arthur Desmond
It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder. "What's a shame?" Duncan asked. "That I didn't capture her first." Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you. -- Julie Garwood
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. -- George Eliot
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Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it. -- James Boswell
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told. -- Leigh Hunt
Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise -- Victor Turner
The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men. -- John Selden
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen. -- John Jay Chapman
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads. -- Lord Chesterfield
The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.] -- Lucretius
Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man. -- William Shakespeare
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be. -- Bram Stoker
What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? "Nay, none of these!" Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight, Whose eye looks still And steadily on thee through the night; "To do His will! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming. -- William Shakespeare
A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy? -- James Russell Lowell
[It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject -- Martin Luther
Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. -- Abu Bakr
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons. -- Rudy Rucker
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. -- Thomas Carlyle
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. -- Edward Coke
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. -- Alcaeus
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. -- George Gissing
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself. -- James Cameron
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. -- Charles Darwin
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. -- Mary Astell
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. -- Quintilian
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! -- Maya Angelou
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. -- Sigmund Freud
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time. -- Ben Shapiro
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. -- Jane Porter
After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. -- John James Audubon
It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha. -- Megan McCafferty
Children (nay, and men too) do most by example. -- John Locke
Between yea and nay, how much difference is there? -- Laozi
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... -- Hippocrates
No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold. -- John Wolcot
He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay. -- John Heywood
He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree. -- Charles James Fox
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. -- C. S. Lewis
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. -- Jane Austen
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. -- Jeremy Bentham
We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. -- Swami Vivekananda
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,Good Kate; I am a gentleman. -- William Shakespeare
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die. -- Epicurus
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. -- Martin Luther
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Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. -- Arthur Keith
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye) -- C. S. Lewis
The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)... -- C. S. Lewis
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. -- Philip Sidney
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes. -- Henry David Thoreau
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope. -- Henry David Thoreau
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England. -- Winston Churchill
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it. -- Seneca the Younger
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. -- Henry Fielding
What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours. -- Christiaan Huygens
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason. -- Edward Coke
We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable. -- Michel de Montaigne
Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all. -- Henry Miller
You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go -- Diana Gabaldon
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another. -- John Dryden
As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity -- Paul Robeson
She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise. -- Mary Mapes Dodge
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. -- Nikki Grimes
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company. -- John Donne

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