- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.
- Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never became a road comic.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never went to the school dance.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020