- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don't share their views - never have.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
- Fading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
- Effectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
- Eternity
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- Nov 07, 2020
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020