Quotes with never-was

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  • Andrew Wiles However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ivan Turgenev However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
    Ivan Turgenev
    Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bob Filner However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Laurens van der Post Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
    Laurens van der Post
    South African army officer and English author (1906 - 1996)
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  • James Thurber Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Leonardo DaVinci Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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  • Marquis de Sade Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Jean Paul Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Carl Sagan Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Erma Bombeck Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Samuel Johnson Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Edmund Burke Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Joan Didion I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
    Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I adore him… I have never been so happy. I have real love.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Bryan Adams I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
    Source: Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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