- Lose
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.
- Nov 07, 2020
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
- Nov 07, 2020
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
- Disappear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
- Armstrong
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always respected Neil Armstrong highly. He was probably the coolest under pressure of anyone I ever had the privilege of flying with. I never saw him flustered.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020