- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Envy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw the play, although I heard it was good.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
- Nov 07, 2020
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
- Heap
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- Nov 07, 2020
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- Heavenly Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us - even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.
- Immune
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
- Team
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- Nov 07, 2020