Quotes with petty--never

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  • Olive Schreiner There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • St. Francis de Sales There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Ben Platt There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Francis Bacon There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
    Source: Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Mark Twain There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Shakespeare There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Philip Roth There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bob Kane There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
    Source: Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Louise Erdrich There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Bryson There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Beck There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bee Wilson There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Baz Luhrmann There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Jonathan Raban There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.
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  • Cass Sunstein There's an old adage about speakers: You won't remember what they said, but you'll never forget how they made you feel. Trump knows that in his bones. He gives his supporters - and they are growing - a terrific feeling of safety and security, along with a laugh and a smile.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Ben Folds There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you
    While the world is watching
    All you need is the thing you forgotten
    And that's to learn to live with what you are.
    Source: Lyrics Learn to Live with What You Are, Supersunnyspeedgr
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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