- Future
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.
- Embarked
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'
- Nov 07, 2020
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
We knew we'd never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen.
- Nov 07, 2020
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020