Quotes with never-was

Quotes 801 till 820 of 2959.

• I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

  ― Astrid Lindgren
  Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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• I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

  ― Michelangelo
  Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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• I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

  ― Aleister Crowley
  British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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• I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

  ― Horace Mann
  American educator (1796 - 1859)
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• I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

  ― Edith Wharton
  American Author (1862 - 1937)
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• I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

  ― Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

  ― Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

  ― Adam Smith
  Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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• I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

  ― Anna Held
  Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

  ― Danny Mcgoorty
   
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• I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up!

  ― Donald Trump
  American businessman (1946 - )
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• I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

  ― Bryant H. McGill
  American journalist and author (1969 - )
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• I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

  ― Aneurin Bevan
  British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.

  ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

  ― Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

  ― Epicurus
  Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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• I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

  ― Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

  ― Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  English writer (1689 - 1762)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• grandchildren
• entertainment
• understanding
• observations
• political
• irascible

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