Quotes with petty--never

Quotes 2621 till 2640 of 2981.

  • Thomas A. Bennett We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
    Thomas A. Bennett
    Irish Carmelite priest
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  • Ben Gibbard We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Desmond Morris We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Pierre Corneille We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Ben Okri We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Arthur Christiansen We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Smiles We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Neville Chamberlain We regard the agreements signed last night as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
    Source: Speech 30-09-1938
    Neville Chamberlain
    British politician and Prime Minister (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bill Cosby We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
    Source: Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Marlin Finch Lupus We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never-ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
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  • Winston Churchill We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aldo Leopold We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Harry S. Truman We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Arnold Bennett We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Mother Teresa We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Jean Baudrillard We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Keith We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Mark Twain We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brigham Young We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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