- Problem
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
- Floats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
- Gospel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never plan the future by the past.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
- Motherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020