Quotes with never-was

Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 2959.

  • Bjorn Borg My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Franz Kafka My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Brock Lesnar My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Betty Parsons My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • B. B. King My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Betty Ford My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
    Source: Betty, a glad awakening
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen is her daughter.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Anita Hill My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Betsy Brandt My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Anne Tyler My stories are never quite good enough.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Brett Hull My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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