Quotes with petty--never

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  • Robert A. Heinlein Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Beyonce Knowles There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Edith Hamilton There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Billy Sunday There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.
    Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Brad Stone There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Bryan White There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Willa Cather There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Josh Billings There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Boo Weekley There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen the Pyramids, and I'd love to explore the culture in North India. I think walking in the Andes would also be awesome.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • A. S. Byatt There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
    Source: Possession (1990) Postscript, Page 50
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Robert Kennedy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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  • Bob Ross There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, ''Anywhere but here.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
    Source: The Lost World (2015) 72
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Henry van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Sinclair Lewis There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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