Never Quotes

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Never mistake motion for action.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.