- Countenance
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I never really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were opposed to it until after I got on the court.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
- Detain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.
- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
It looks like things are changing in north London. Tottenham have gone down a road they've never been down before. They've kept their best players and pushed young English ones through. They've started to match Arsenal - who were light years ahead - by building a new stadium.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020