Quotes with never-was

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  • Carolyn Chute It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • James Whitcomb Riley It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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  • Cameron Bright It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Agnes Repplier It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Carson McCullers It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Margot Asquith It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Troward It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Cecil Parkinson It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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  • James Thurber It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Groucho Marx It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Edgar Saltus It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
    Edgar Saltus
     
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  • Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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