Never Quotes

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.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.