Quotes with never-was

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 2959.

  • Brendan I. Koerner Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a column, and lift the track into place. Because the systems operate above traffic, collisions with errant motorists are never an issue. The trains are automated, saving millions in labor costs in the long run.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Barry McGee Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Billy Corgan Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Goldberg Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Walters Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Mary Kay Ash Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
    Mary Kay Ash
    American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • William James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aaron Copland Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Aaron C. Brown Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.
    Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bill Kurtis Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Marva Collins Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Ben Hecht Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Oscar Wilde Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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