- Pain
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
- Dare
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- Nov 07, 2020
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.
- Common Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
- Walk
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020