Quotes with never-was

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  • Charles Baudelaire It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Camille Paglia It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • James Baldwin It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bob Dole It is demeaning to the Nation that within the Clinton administration, a corps of the elite who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered, and never learned.
    Source: Acceptance speech for Republican presidential nomination, San Diego, 15 August 1996
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Pliny the Elder It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ben Stein It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • George Eliot It is never too late to be what you might have been.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Daniel Defoe It is never too late to be wise.
    Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
    Source: Walden (1854) Chapter 1: Economy
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Carl I. Hagen It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.
    Source: About Israel Comment in connection with the annual Europride, i
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • James Mackintosh It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
    James Mackintosh
    British politician (1765 - 1832)
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  • George Gurdjieff It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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