Quotes with never-was

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Thurber Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bryan Callen Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
    Source: The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carol Loomis Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Burroughs Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry van Dyke Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Alexander Pope Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
    Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • W. H. Auden Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Billie Holiday Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Helen Rowland Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bella Freud Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Art Linkletter Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • C. K. Williams Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Butch Trucks Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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