- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
- Republican
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still subscribe to the theory that Ronald Reagan once pronounced: that I will never speak ill will of my fellow Republican.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Olympics are never just about sports.
- Foreign Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
- Nov 07, 2020