Quotes with never-was

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  • James Russell Lowell It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Elbert Hubbard It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Og Mandino It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Lord George Byron It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Zig Ziglar It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Al Sharpton It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • John Henry Newman It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Anna Wickham It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
    Anna Wickham
     
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  • Augustus Hare It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Angela Carter It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Adolph Green It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Ben E. King It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Assata Shakur It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile Peacekeeper. It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of peace-keeping.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Casey Affleck It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Alfred Loisy It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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  • George Eliot It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anais Nin It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Charles A. Garfield It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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