- People
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I promised myself that if I was every lucky enough to have a hit and also a hit that I had written myself, I would never get tired of performing it. I would always be grateful for that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Selfies are one of those things I generally take but never post. It's more to remember the moment or what I'm doing.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because I'd heard about how incredible they were, but I never had the opportunity to visit them.
- Rather
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- Nov 07, 2020
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020