Quotes with never-was

Quotes 941 till 960 of 2959.

  • Barry Cornwall I never was on the dull, tame shore,
    But I loved the great sea more and more.
    Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bryan Procter I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
    Bryan Procter
    English poet (1787 - 1874)
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Winston Churchill I never worry about action, but only inaction.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Annie Dillard I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • John Malkovich I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
    John Malkovich
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Ben Hogan I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Burgess Owens I played on the Jets during Namath's last four years, and we used to ask ourselves, 'When is it going to happen? When are they finally going to replace him?' We'd wait for it, week by week, but it never happened.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Richard Baxter I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
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  • Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Martha Gellhorn I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Martin Luther I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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