Quotes with never-was

Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 2959.

  • Tom Robbins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anthony Kennedy The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
    Anthony Kennedy
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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  • Shirley Williams The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Bob Keeshan The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Ben Folds The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare The course of true love never did run smooth.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Johnson The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Raymond Chandler The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Max Lerner The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Dean Charles R. Brown The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
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  • Bill Goldberg The deal is that I hold myself to an extremely high standard, and it's a standard that can never be... it's unattainable. But it drives me to be the very best in everything I do.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Johannes Kepler The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
    Johannes Kepler
    German astronomer, mathematician and physicist (1572 - 1630)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The doors of wisdom are never shut.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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