- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet.
- Erupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning isn't meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never 'master' a topic simply by taking a class.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will never get to the flying car era. We will get to the era where we get flying drones that haul people, though.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020