Quotes with never-was

Quotes 2741 till 2760 of 2959.

  • John Malkovich Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
    John Malkovich
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Bob Harper Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carl Sagan Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
    Source: Interview with Charlie Rose (1996)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Abraham Cowley Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • A. E. Housman Who made the world I cannot tell;
    'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
    My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
    I never soiled with such a deed.
    Source: More Poems (1936) No. 19, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Philip James Bailey Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
    Source: Festus (1813) A Country Town
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Anna Akhmatova Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Coco Chanel Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Carol P. Christ Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • James A. Froude Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Bill Dedman William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Bill Rancic Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Josh Billings Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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