Quotes with petty--never

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  • J. G. Ballard But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Abel Ferrara But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Carla Bruni But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Junot Diaz But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
    Source: Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 209
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Lydia M. Child But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Aldous Huxley But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Buffalo Bill But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
    Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bruce McCulloch But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Cassiodorus But who looks for serious conduct at the public shows? A Cato never goes to the circus. Anything said there by the people as they celebrate should be deemed no injury. It is a place that protects excesses. Patient acceptance of their chatter is a proven glory of princes themselves.
    Source: Variae, Bk. 1, no. 27; p. 19
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Bill Wyman But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • George Bancroft By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Bradley A. Smith By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Aeschylus By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Marie Dressler By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
    Marie Dressler
    Canadian stage and film actress (1868 - 1934)
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  • John Henry Newman Calculation never made a hero.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Arthur Miller Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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