- Good
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It may never work reliably or generate enough energy to be commercially viable.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020