- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June.
- Foreign Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
- Nov 07, 2020
Gleason was a rough guy. Like all of these comics, I have never known one who is a sweetheart all the way through.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.
- Communist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.
- Nov 07, 2020
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
- Juvenile
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
- Break
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years later. Tennessee Williams did that all the time, and it's distressing, because I'd like the play to be out there in its finished form.
- Brief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020