Quotes with never-was

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 2959.

  • Bernard Williams Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man was nature's mistake - she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Nelson Mandela Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Louis Armstrong Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Louis Armstrong Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know!
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Orison Swett Marden Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
    Orison Swett Marden
    American inspirational author (1848 - 1924)
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  • Norman Macewan Many a man never fails because he never tries.
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  • B. C. Forbes Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Billy Wilder Marilyn [Monroe] was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
    Source: The Show Business Nobody Knows (1971)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Albert Camus Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Erickson Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Margaret Drabble Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
    Source: The Middle Ground (2013) 103
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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