Quotes with never-was

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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Oscar Wilde What of Art?
    - It is a malady.
    Love?
    - An Illusion.
    Religion?
    - The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    You are a sceptic.
    - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    What are you?
    - To define is to limit.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Napoleon Hill What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Antonio Porchia What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Antonio Porchia What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Abraham Polonsky What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York? Never had a wife.
    Source: Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • G. Grossmith What's the good of a home if you are never in it.
    G. Grossmith
     
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  • Gail Hamilton Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
    Gail Hamilton
    American writer (1833 - 1896)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. I think they need me. I don't think it's addictive. I think, if anything, it's the opposite of addictive. You want to run away from it, but it doesn't let you go. It's doing it again.
    Source: As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Anna Held Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • C. Everett Koop When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • William Butler Yeats When a country produces a man of genius he never is what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Alan Paton When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Oswald Chambers When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Enid Bagnold When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Ben Shahn When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Jean Rostand When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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