Quotes with never-was

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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.
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  • Bob Diamond Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • James Thurber Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Dale Carnegie Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
    Source: The Great Gatsby Ch. 1
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Archibald MacLeish Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Still may syllabes jar with time,
    Still may reason war with rhyme,
    Resting never!
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Anna Louise Strong Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Oliver Cromwell Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Emily Dickinson Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Jules Ellinger Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
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  • Zig Ziglar Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • David Harold Fink Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
    David Harold Fink
    American author
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Samuel Johnson Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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